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Ad-Aware Free Is Smart Protection

Once again, I feel obligated to strongly suggest that you protect your computer with not just anti-virus software but crapola protection as well. The often overwhelming deluge of crap that hits your computer daily needs to be addressed. Ad-Aware by Lava Soft seems to do very well catching the crap and asking if you would like to flush it. They update often and it plays nicely with others. I have had no software or systems conflicts with it. Check it out, there is a Free edition. Beware of sound alike and look alike competitors that are not Free.

Email Overload

How many emails have you gotten today? Justifiable email is reaching choke proportions, let alone the spam avalanche of sexual enhancement, financial security, help me get my millions out of Nigeria and more. Buried alive isn’t just a Halloween concern, it is a day to day experience with email. How to solve the dilemma has occupied a great deal of web space. I use Mail Washer Pro to screen for spam. It grabs all my email before it gets to Outlook. It works fairly well but does lock up about every other week, never had figured out why. It identifies spam with it’s own database, I still do a fast rundown before I process the email which removes the spam. Firetrust which makes MailWasher Pro has a free version as well. I have included the link but as I write this, I am unable to get any Firetrust site links to open. Cnet downloads and other MailWasher downloads are available and working, I don’t know what is up with the Firetrust site. Xobni is currently a free program which will allow...