At Maverick Technology Solutions we use and recommend the following software products.

Trend Micro™ PC-cillin™ Internet Security 2007 - protects your PC and home network against all types of viruses, worms, Trojans, and blended threats—including network viruses, like MYDOOM and SASSER. It also blocks hackers, detects and removes spyware, guards against phishing attacks, filters unwanted content, and minimizes spam. New features include Home Network Control and Wi-Fi Intrusion Detection—extending desktop security to your home and wireless networks.

iHateSpam™  -  this product can run on all Windows Operating System flavors except Win95. iHateSpam™ works with Outlook 2000/2002 and Outlook Express version 5 or higher. (no other email clients like Eudora or AOL).  iHateSpam™ filters those irritating junk emails out of your inbox into a quarantine folder!  

Spyware Blaster  - Spyware, adware, browser hijackers, and dialers are some of the fastest-growing threats on the Internet today.  By simply browsing to a web page, you could find your computer to be the brand-new host of one of these unwanted fiends!  The most important step you can take is to secure your system.  Prevent the installation of ActiveX-based spyware, adware, browser hijackers, dialers, and other potentially unwanted pests.  Block spyware/tracking cookies in Internet Explorer and Mozilla/Firefox.  Restrict the actions of potentially dangerous sites in Internet Explorer.  SpywareBlaster can help keep your system spyware-free and secure, without interfering with the "good side" of the web.  And unlike other programs, SpywareBlaster does not have to remain running in the background. 

SpywareGuard provides a real-time protection solution against spyware that is a great addition to SpywareBlaster's protection method.  An anti-virus program scans files before you open them and prevents execution if a virus is detected - SpywareGuard does the same thing, but for spyware!  And you can easily have an anti-virus program running alongside SpywareGuard. SpywareGuard now also features Download Protection and Browser Hijacking Protection! 

Spybot Search and Destroy  - can detect and remove spyware of different kinds from your computer. Spyware is a relatively new kind of threat that common anti-virus applications do not yet cover. If you see new toolbars in your Internet Explorer that you didn't intentionally install, if your browser crashes, or if you browser start page has changed without your knowing, you most probably have spyware. But even if you don't see anything, you may be infected, because more and more spyware is emerging that is silently tracking your surfing behavior to create a marketing profile of you that will be sold to advertisement companies.   This product does not have a website but can be downloaded from various host sites. 

Google Toolbar - In the fight against popups, a very effective free solution is to install the Google Toolbar in your web browser. This adds a toolbar to the top of the browser window that includes the Google Search engine as well as some additional tools. Included for free is a popup blocker. It is downloaded from www.google.com by following the “more” link at the right side of the page

Spector Pro is software for monitoring and recording every detail of PC and Internet activity - in your home or in your office.  Spector Pro contains seven integrated tools that record: chats, instant messages, emails sent and received, web sites visited, keystrokes typed, programs launched, peer to peer file searching and swapping - plus, Spector Pro provides the equivalent of a digital surveillance tape so that you can see the EXACT sequence of EVERYTHING your family members or employees are doing on the computer. All seven tools work together at the same time, secretly saving all the recordings in a hidden location only you know about.