Spyware and Adware are viruses that hamper your computer by spying your internet surfing activities and by sending unwanted pop-up ads. Due to these viruses your computer starts generating various problems like slowing down, crashing and even giving confidential information. To deal with such problems you have to download particular software’s like Ad-Aware, Spybot-Search & Destroy etc to tackle such virus related problems. These software’s monitor your computer and alerts you if such viruses are detected so you can scan, detect and delete them.

Most Viruses, Adware and Spyware are residing in memory so that it may have the capability to disable or prevent any virus, spyware and adware protection from running. To use an online-scanner effectively, it is advised to boot in safe mode with networking before doing so. Given below are the steps to scan, detect and delete unwanted stuff from your computer.

• Disable "System Restore" for Windows Me and XP, and then restart your PC.
• Press "F8" upon boot up.
• Select "Safe mode with Networking"
• For Broadband and network users, connect to internet and choose any of the available on-line scanners.
• Repeat as necessary.
• Scanning on different vendors is advised because each of them have different characteristic and cannot remove all variants on the infected PC.