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ADAWARE 

This free program scours your computer for junk files, cookies-tiny files companies gather information from you, from ads., etc.

How to run it:

• Find the orange icon of “Ad-Aware” and double click to open it.
• Right side of window, green bar click “scan now”
• Window appears “scanning,” which may take 5-10 minutes or more. Minimize the window and do other stuff, maximizing the Adaware program every 5-7 etc minutes to see if it is done.
• Blue bar shows percentage of scanning done, wait until it’s at 100%.
• When program shows “scan complete” look for “infected objects” in middle of window, if none, close program, you are clean. If bad or dangerous files/objects are found then proceed to delete or quarantine them.