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Thanks for the great post. Us old people appreciate these kinds of tips in layman's terms.

I run Spy Sweeper (Webroot) and find it to be very "user-friendly" and very effective. I keep Spy Sweeper running all the time, but I also have AdAware 2.0 (Lavasoft) that I run once in awhile as a backup. I don't recall it ever catching anything missed by Spy Sweeper, but you never know. I like to have two different companies checking for the garbage (actually, three different companies, counting McAfee which I run once a week as well).

Window Washer (Webroot) is also nice for keeping my computer clean.

There is yet another simple way to keep your machine cleaned up, and it's been working for me for years. What you need is a basic understanding of DOS, your autoexec.bat file, and the directory structure of your machine.

Create a batch file in DOS called 'CleanX.bat' (or whatever name you want to use), and type in the following lines:

c:\windows\tempor~1
deltree/y *.*
cd c:\
:end

Save the batch file in c:\windows\command

Now in your autoexec.bat file, insert the line 'cleanx.bat' so it runs before Windows actually initializes, and every time you boot up, ALL of the Windows Temporary Internet Files will be wiped clean as a houndstooth. Windows will recreate any directory structure needed after you erase the previous existing files.

Note: exercise caution when using that 'deltree' command.

Regards,

MM

I run Spy Sweeper (Webroot) and find it to be very "user-friendly" and very effective. I keep Spy Sweeper running all the time, but I also have AdAware 2.0 (Lavasoft) that I run once in awhile as a backup. I don't recall it ever catching anything missed by Spy Sweeper, but you never know

I had that product on my computer. I was suspicious of its effectiveness because it always found the "welchia worm" everytime I ran it, even if I ran it again immediately. How's that possible?Something seemed phony to me.
So I deleted it.
I went back to Ad-aware from Lavasoft. It's free and hasn't found the welchia worm yet. Ad-aware from Lavasoft is totally free. Plus, I paid a fee for the Webroot product. Also when I installed the Webroot update it forced itself on me, popping up everytime I signed on and I couldn't cancel it. I hated that! and soon deleted the entire program even though I'd paid for it.
call me: Happy with Lavasoft.