Increasing security applications

Ad-Aware Personal provides advanced protection from known data-mining, aggressive advertising, Trojans, dialers, malware, browser hijackers, and tracking components. This software is downloadable free of charge. (...) read more>>

Spybot - Search & Destroy detects and removes spyware, a relatively new kind of threat not yet covered by common anti-virus applications. Spyware silently tracks your surfing behaviour to create a marketing profile for you that (...) read more>>

HijackThis is a program used by experienced users in order to detect browser hijackers. It allows you to identify any sort of spyware and malware (as well as some trojan horses and worms). Another feature of (...) read more>>

A small utility for removing CoolWebSearch (aka CoolWwwSearch, YouFindAll, White-Pages.ws and a million other names). Established antispyware program tend to forget essential parts of the hijack, so until they update, you can use this to completely (...) read more>>

RootkitRevealer is an advanced rootkit detection utility. It runs on Windows NT 4 and higher and its output lists Registry and file system API discrepancies that may indicate the presence of a user-mode or kernel-mode rootkit. RootkitRevealer successfully detects all persistent rootkits published at www.rootkit.com, including AFX, Vanquish and HackerDefender (note: RootkitRevealer is not intended to detect rootkits like Fu that don't attempt to hide their files or registry keys). If you use it to identify the presence of a rootkit please let us know! (...) read more>>

SpyRemover detects and removes more than 63,104 types (more than 169,000 items and variants) of intrusive devices such as spyware, adware, hijackers, keyloggers, Trojans, tracking devices, hacker tools, and other spy devices on your PC. This spyware remover is powerful and easy to use. (...) read more>>

ATF Cleaner is a temp file removal tool:

Some new features to ATF Cleaner these include:
Cleaning of all user temp folders, administrator only can use this feature.
Cleaning of the Java cache, which seems to be harbouring more and more malware.
Cleaning for the Opera browser, including Operas cache, cookies, history, download history, saved passwords and visited links. (...) read more>>

Free Window Sweeper is a free privacy tool for cleaning up the history of your activities on a computer. With simply one click, Free Window Sweeper allows you to remove Internet and computer traces, browser history, cookies, index.dat files, typed URLs and more. It also offers support for many 3rd party applications, and can clean custom file, folder or registry locations. It also has a cookie keeper and secure deletion method. (...) read more>>

Do you have a spouse, children, or a boss wondering what you were doing on the computer? Why worry about other people using the computer! Use Privacy Inspector before someone else gets your personal information from your computer. Privacy Inspector cleans up your tracks left by Windows, your browser, and many other programs. Save storage space and improve performance of your computer with Privacy Inspector. (...) read more>>