Spyware is every ware and it can be nasty it can slow down your computer and do what its says spy on you. Witch is never good cause I'm sure like most people you probably use your computer to check your banking and pay your bills. Well wouldn’t it be nice if you had a program on your computer that you could just run and check for that stuff and even better get rid of it too? Well you do and you probably don’t even know it. Its called The Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool. You may have seen it talked about in your windows update. But Microsoft hides it. But there is away to use it your self when ever you want. Here is how you do it:

From your desktop go to the start menu type in the start menu search MRT and it enter (on XP hit the windows key and “R” and type MRT.EXE and it enter).

You should get a the UAC pop up just hit continue or yes and MRT should pop up just hit next.

You should see a screen giving you some options to do a quick scan, full scan, or a custom scan. If you don't have much time and just want to know quick if you got something or not then do a quick scan just know it will miss something's. If you want to make sure there is nothing on your computer do the full scan that will check every file and every folder on your computer. If you think a file you just downloaded is infected with spyware use the custom scan and check just that file.