Microsoft’s Anti Spyware Now Called Windows Defender Click on my link below to get great free spy ware for any legitimate windows user. Msn bought Giant and now is giving it out free as a beta version until July 31. UPDATE:Still Free 4.06.06 Microsoft AntiSpyware - Windows Defender	The New Verizon Broadband Toolbar Click to get the Microsofts Malicious Software Removal Tool
Microsoft Baseline Security is free, and it will show you where you are lacking or how well, in your computer’s security. Microsoft Baseline Security Messenger 8.0	More on Microsoft’s AntiSpyware If you have your setting to knowledgeable to computers then you can access Advanced Tools. Click System Explorers. From here, you can check BHO’s (Browser Helper Objects) also known as a plug-in and you can see what programs either track you or help a particular program function better. For instance, I have Acrobat reader, Ipswitch, which is a program I use to sometimes go into my site and upload a new version of a page. I also have Norton Anti-Virus. Looking up Startup Programs and seeing if they are safe is easy to do. You can also check all the Toolbars you have and if they are safe. The software is easy to understand and the learning curve to start the program is less than 5 minutes.

MSN Toolbar What is great about the MSN Toolbar is that it has pop-up blocker and if you have a hotmail account, everything is right there. It is from MSN and there is no spy ware. Just click NO to the program they ask you about if you do not want to participate. I can't use it because I work out of MSN with Verizon but if you can add a tool bar by right clicking the existing tool bar you can use it. MSN Tool Bar and Desk Top Search

EBay Toolbar is great to have if you do EBay periodically or do searches and watching. It will keep track of all this with one-click and pop-up reminders. It also has a button called Account Guard, which helps with spoofing. Update: This link has the desktop search, which is really the find in the start menu, but for easier access. EBay Toolbar