There are many sites which users are clicking on and downloading fake antivirus programs, in some cases they are also installed as drive-by downloads.

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Web of Trust (WOT) has now added the top three free email services to its free security protection. This gives users of Google Gmail, Windows Live Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail even greater protection as WOT checks links embedded in emails and the symbols warn users of dangerous websites just as it does when used on search engines. This helps users to avoid spyware, spam, phishing, identity theft and other Internet scams, before they click any links.

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How often do you find that your drivers are out of date, maybe you have used PCPitstop’s Optimise to give your PC a health check and found outdated drivers, or maybe you haven’t looked for driver updates.

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Spybot Search & Destroy is a free program which detects and removes spyware which is not covered by antivirus programs.  This includes many of the new rogue antivirus programs which install silently in the background

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Spyware Doctor Starter Edition is a compact utility tool that will remove and protect your computer against spyware, adware, spyware trojans, keyloggers, identity theft, hijackers, tracking threats, spybots, rogue anti-spyware, unwanted software, phishing, pop-ups, and bad Web sites.

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Superantispyware is a free program which will remove many of the parasites and trojans associated with many of the fake antivirus programs that are infecting users computers.

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This video will show you how to use Malwarebytes Anti-Malware to assist you in removing these fake programs from your computer which are downloaded either by link clicking, installing malicious codecs or drive-by downloads which install silently in the background.

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Panda Anti-Rootkit Free is a free program for Windows 2000/XP and shows hidden system resources, identifying known and unknown rootkits. It analyzes hidden drivers, processes, modules, files, registry entries, SDT modifications, EAT hooks, modification to the IDT, non standard INT2E and SYSENTER, IRP hooks. Unlike other anti-rootkit utilities which only ‘reveal’ hidden objects, Panda Anti-Rootkit searches deeper and identifies known and unknown rootkits giving users the option of removing them, including their associated registry entries, processes and files.

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Undelete Plus V2.97 is FREE to download and use for a limited time.

Windows users sometimes find that they simply cannot recover files that they have deleted.

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PCPitstop have changed the format of the Free PC Tune-up. It is now even easier to use and is a great one-stop site to visit and test your machines health, configuration and performance.

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