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According to the Lavasoft blog, Ad-Aware Anniversary Edition:

• Uses 74% less memory than Ad-Aware 2008.
• Only uses 18% of the CPU during scans – nearly 60% less resources than the previous version, and considerably less than each competitor product tested, including AVG, Kaspersky, Norton, and PC Tools.
• Scans 36 MB per second – faster than each competitor product tested, and over 4 times faster than AVG’s.

Aside from the performance improvements, the Ad-Aware Anniversary Edition also sports a new and improved interface.

Download Ad-Aware Free – Anniversary Edition

Alisa Miller has an excellent writeup on 50 tools to use if you want to protect yourself from Internet snoopers, want to spy on those out to get you, or want to be able to track trends that you know will lead to something big. All the tools listed are free or have a free trial.

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The DemocraKey was created in May of 2006. Within two days, over 60,000 people had read about the DemocraKey and built their own. It was featured on MSN, Digg, Lifehacker, and hundreds of other pages. Now, it’s entering version 2.0, where it becomes a complete, portable privacy suite. DemocraKey helps scan and surf securely from computer to computer. You can install it on a portable thumbdrive and now even on an iPod. Visit a friends house, surf from a kiosk, or just need some privacy? Pop it in and off you go. DemocraKey has built in TOR support in the browser, which can hide your internet activity. Sounds sweet, portable too!

Features

• Protect your computer from viruses with a security enhanced version of Firefox
• Visit sites that are blocked by your school/employer/government
• Hide your internet actions with Tor
• Encrypt personal emails with GPG
• Scan your computer with portable built in Antivirus software
• Runs from any portable media – iPod, USB key, Digital Camera…
• It’s FREE and Open Source!

Get DemocraKey!