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The following tools are recommended by the Competitive Intelligence Center in preventing spam, eliminating "spyware", prevent the invasion of your privacy and security:

SpyBot Search and Destroy - eliminates Spyware

Spybot - Search & Destroy can detect and remove spyware of different kinds from your computer. Spyware is a relatively new kind of threat that common anti-virus applications do not yet cover. If you see new toolbars in your Internet Explorer that you didn't intentionally install, if your browser crashes, or if you browser start page has changed without your knowing, you most probably have spyware. But even if you don't see anything, you may be infected, because more and more spyware is emerging that is silently tracking your surfing behaviour to create a marketing profile of you that will be sold to advertisement companies. Spybot-S&D is free, so there's no harm in trying to see if something snooped into your computer, too :)

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• Surf anonymously, without getting tracked by spammers
• Surf at work, without being monitored
• Block cookies, viruses, popup ads, and other web junk

Freedom/Zero Knowledge allows you to take control of your privacy with FreedomŽ! Freedom works seamlessly alongside your favorite browser and other Internet applications. You can surf the web, send email, chat, telnet, and participate in newsgroups as you normally would, only now with complete confidence that your personal information is not being collected without your consent.

Information Security

Information Security (a.k.a. "InfoSec") can be defined as: measures adopted to reduce, eliminate, and mitigate security risks and to prevent the unauthorized use, misuse, modification, or denial of use of knowledge, facts, data or capabilities.

Protecting Your Privacy

Just as our company monitors website access, competing companies do as well. Therefore, as you do your research and visit sites, your identity is being tracked. Internet sites collect every piece of information they can about a visitor, which in turn hinders your private research.

In addition, as you register on sites, download information, and perform transactions, you are providing valuable data on-line to interested parties. Unknowingly, many of these recipient parties use the data you provide them and resell it to anyone they choose to, for a fee.

Cookies are the most common method used to track Web usage. A "cookie" is a small piece of information sent by a web server to store on a web browser so it can later be read back from that browser. This is useful for having the browser remember some specific information.

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