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Spyware Removal
Spyware gets installed on your computer, primarily as a result of web browsing, without your knowledge, and gathers information about you or whoever is using your computer. Anti-virus tools often neglect to locate and remove Spyware. Spyware removal tools take it off your computer.
Personal Fire Walls
A personal fire walls monitors traffic coming to a personal computer and blocks traffic that is seen as malicious. Effective personal fire walls employ knowledge about applications that are allowed to open connections to the Internet.
Scan & Block/Quarantine Systems
This type of system ensures the security configurations of remote computers by verifying that each system that connects is protected with active, up to date anti-virus, fire wall, and patches. Some quarantine systems can be integrated with patch management to automatically fix systems that might otherwise be blocked.
Personal Anti-virus
Monitors files being opened on a computer and ensure that those files are not infected with viruses. The tool can also clean/delete or quarantine viruses when they are found.
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