I have Ghostery, Adblock Plus, and now Betterprivacy thanks to your suggestions. I used to use DoNotTrack before AVG got it but I also have AVG as my firewall/antivirus. Anyone know of anything else, besides NoScript, that I should be using?
I mentioned Malwarebytes anti-malware freeware, and SuperAntiSpyware Free Edition or Spybot Search & Destroy freeware. And finally, using registry repair software.
Think of it as a “layered defense”, to, at intervals sweep your system looking for stuff that managed to sneak in.
The programs I recommended are frequently updated with the latest tips and tricks, and they do catch a lot of baddies that sneak through.
And registry repair software is also very important, because not only does it police up registry problems, but it backs up your registry, so if you get a bad invader, and while killing it your registry is damaged, you will be able to restore it.
I personally like Registry Wizard. Part of a review:
This program has more than just registry scanning and repair. It has an optimize menu which has some interesting items that are changed by adjusting the sliders or checking a check box. One of the best ones if it works is to auto-close non-responsive tasks. That closes non-responsive programs without the need to do it manually through the task manager-very helpful.
Boot optimization improves startup time by locating startup files in contiguous clusters. In this section there is also a registry defragmenter.
The clean history menu had some interesting options too. You could clean the start menu order history, the network drive history, user assist history, run menu history, recent documents history and a whole bunch of others. There were also opportunities to clean up Internet Explorer and Firefox as well.