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		<title>Free Spyware Removal Tools</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are hundreds if not thousands of free spyware removal tools for the Windows operating system. The choice ranges from to popular spyware removal tools such as Windows Defender, Spybot Search And Destroy or Spyware Terminator to lesser known anti spyware software programs and even so called rogue applications that look like spyware removal tools [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/microsoft_windows.jpg" alt="microsoft windows" title="microsoft windows" width="128" height="128" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-11907" />There are hundreds if not thousands of free spyware removal tools for the Windows operating system. The choice ranges from to popular spyware removal tools such as <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/29/windows-defender/">Windows Defender</a>, Spybot Search And Destroy or Spyware Terminator to lesser known anti spyware software programs and even so called rogue applications that look like spyware removal tools but are in fact malicious in nature. </p>
<p>This article will concentrate on two lesser known free spyware removal tools. The first program is called Roguefix. It has been designed to counter so called rogue applications. The tool has been specifically designed to remove rogue scanners, desktop and homepage hijackers, trojans, codecs and miscellaneous malware.</p>
<p><span id="more-13242"></span><a href="http://www.internetinspiration.co.uk/roguefix.htm">Roguefix</a> comes as a simple batch file that has to be executed in Windows safe mode.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/free_spyware_removal_tools-500x252.gif" alt="free spyware removal tools" title="free spyware removal tools" width="500" height="252" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-13240" /></p>
<p>The tool will then scan the operating system for spyware and remove detected spyware automatically from the computer system. The free spyware cleaner is only compatible to the Windows XP operating system according to the software developer.</p>
<p><a href="http://siri.urz.free.fr/Fix/SmitfraudFix_En.php">SmitfraudFix</a> on the other hand can scan a Windows XP or Windows 2000 operating system directly. The user needs to boot into safe mode for the removal process though. The program will generate a report after the scan which will list all the malicious files found after the spyware scan.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/spyware_removal_tool-500x252.png" alt="spyware removal tool" title="spyware removal tool" width="500" height="252" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-13241" /></p>
<p>Both tools have been designed to detect and remove rogue applications only which does limit their usefulness in day to day spyware scans. It is however a good idea to have them at hand in case the computer system gets infected by rogue spyware.</p>

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