Discusses the difficulties of removing spyware and adware, and how to use automatic removal programs to help. It also discusses prevention.

Discusses the use of Ad-aware and Spybot to remove adware automatically and the use of a personal firewall to keep it from coming back. The link at http://www.comptechdoc.org/basic/internetscams/adware.html discusses how to identify your process in Windows 2000 and Windows XP.

An article by Microsoft that explains how to tell if malware changed your browser settings.