The Security Mentor

Spyware is those icky programs that change the page your web browser shows when it starts, or show popup ads even when you're not surfing, or even steal personal information and send it back to the authors.

Some really good programs will help you detect, prevent and remove spyware installations. Unfortunately there are also a lot of deceptively advertised "anti-spyware" programs.

How do you sort out claims and counter-claims? You could spend hours researching, or get a few tips from back issues of The Security Mentor, but your best move is to visit David Piscitello's Anti-spyware Resource Page. Someone reliable recommended it to me and everything I looked at checks out OK. What he's got is a list of good anti-spyware software, bad anti-spyware software, and lots of pointers to honest information.