My Top 5 SpyWare Utilities

It’s handy to have them all in one place when you have to clean a PC (most likely belonging to a family member or colleague)

Download these 5 and go to town…

• RKill by BleepingComputer (Kills known spyware processes)
• TDSKiller from Kaspersky (RootKit detector)
• Ad-Aware from LavaSoft (Spyware cleaner)
• The free version of AVG Antivirus from AVG (Free Anti-Virus)
• MalwareBytes (Another Spyware cleaner)

Use another computer and download these 5 utilities. Save them on a thumb drive. Boot the computer that’s having problems. I would NOT connect it to a network or the internet yet.

Run the RKILL utility first. Then install and run each of the other utilities as they are. If you have to reboot for some reason, run RKILL again before you start running the others after it boots up.

Connect the computer to the internet and update and rerun each of the applications again.

Setup Bing Wallpaper Desktop Slideshow

For those running Windows 7, you may have played around with the desktop slideshow. Did you know you can have those images piped in from an RSS feed. I’m thinking Flickr or maybe even those cool images Bing uses on it’s front page.

Mahendra Palsule at makeuseof.com has posted an article on how to do this. If you want to use another source, you could edit the file she provides and throw in your own source!

Find the article here.