Lately with more time on the Net and too many clicks we do online, our machines are falling prey to the newest Marketing Strategy. Spyware !! These are many different ways to collect personal information (name, age, e-mail address, browsing habit, etc etc) from your machine and create a massive consumer database. These are used to focus marketing strategy more to the right kinda audience. But all this comes at the cost of you losing personal data / machine integrity & receiving unsolicited marketing promotions (eg. SPAM). Now, how does a home user know when he’s running into a trap ? It’s only the arena of power users, who can identify these softwares and get rid of them. Now for home users and to some extent even for Power Users (a better product is SpyBot for this segment) Lavasoft has made this software called ’Ad-Aware’. It’ll scan your machine and tell you, what’re those spying files and applications on your machine, so that you can opt to get rid of them. Very intutive and easy to use for home users. Get it now and get your machine cleaned, you might face some perfomance boost in Internet usage also. Do a reguar scan to keep things in shape. Good Luck & Keep those unwanted intruders away.