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   > What is a good free tool to detect and remove spyware these days?   
   > Way back when it was SpyBot - Search and Destroy, but looking at that package   
   > again the free version seems to be cumbersome and in the end largely useless.   
      
   Hopefully someone else will answer as my experience with owning a Windows   
   machine is several years old now.   
      
   > -- You also have to love the fact that Microsoft has left access to   
   > notifications largely open and I find people left and right who are taken by   
   > the random "McAffee" or other anti-virus warnings that their system is   
   > infected.  They don't even have these packages installed on their systems.   
      
   I saw similar things to this in the past.  In some cases, it was something   
   that persisted after a "free trial" came installed on a new system and was   
   later removed after the trial was over.  I have also seen them come up as   
   browser pop-ups initiated on websites and, as you pointed out, sometimes   
   just randomly.   
      
   Mike   
      
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