Is the Net a safe place?

A list from some school leaders in Techlearning about making the net a safer place.

Free anti-spyware software

Ad-Aware Personal remains the most popular anti-spyware product for computer users around the world, with nearly one million downloads every week.

Key Features

* User-controlled spyware removal

* Customizable Scans

* Code Sequence Identification (CSI) technology

* Extensive Lavasoft Detection Database

* ADS scan

* Blocks browser hijackers

* Quarantine manager

I personally use this and have been for many years. It’s booth very effective and free. This is a great compliment to your firewall and anti-virus software.

Internet security is one of the things handled in the ICDL course

Protect yourself from the dangers of the web

Even tough this is a guide from Microsoft for school children it’s a good introduction and checklist to handle viruses, spyware, Internet security and backup.

Microsoft promotes their own software but theirs plenty of freeware on the net to use for free. In a couple of days I will complete a list of programs for this.