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> What is a good free tool to detect and remove spyware these days?
> Way back when it was SpyBot - Search and Destroy, but looking at that package
> again the free version seems to be cumbersome and in the end largely useless.

Hopefully someone else will answer as my experience with owning a Windows
machine is several years old now.

> -- You also have to love the fact that Microsoft has left access to
> notifications largely open and I find people left and right who are taken by
> the random "McAffee" or other anti-virus warnings that their system is
> infected.  They don't even have these packages installed on their systems.

I saw similar things to this in the past.  In some cases, it was something
that persisted after a "free trial" came installed on a new system and was
later removed after the trial was over.  I have also seen them come up as
browser pop-ups initiated on websites and, as you pointed out, sometimes
just randomly.

Mike

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