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Malware is nothing new to computers especially Microsoft Windows as the Operating System. Though is vastly spread on the world wide web, there are tools that can help the prevention and removal of these pests on our computer. Here are some of the most effective tool that can surely help:

1. Lavasoft Ad-Aware. You can visit the site here

2. Eset NOD32. The most secure Anti-Virus & Anti-Malware software used for Microsoft Windows OS

3.  Spybot Search and Destroy(removal, free).  Like Adware, spybot searches and destroys every existing spyware on your system.

4.  Spyware Blaster (preventative, free).  Spyware Blaster is a good prevention for malware and keeps browser highjacker and adaware from installing themeselves on your system.

5.  Windows Defender (removal, prevention, free on windows vista OS).  This is a built in windows spyware detetction .

Each of this  Malware Removal and Prevention Tools is two components this is the scanning engine and the malicious software definitions.  This tools must be always updated to have the latest definitions on new malware and spware.  Every tools has its own update feature that downloads the latest malware definitions for the engine to use.