Lifehacker.com, a great productivity blog, has done a couple of really useful posts in the last week or so regarding some free utilities for malware removal and data recovery.
For anyone who is unfamiliar with these terms, malware–often called spyware–consists of tiny, sneaky programs that usually install themselves without your knowledge and are often difficult to get rid of (but less so than viruses). They usually track certain user behaviors, such as Web sites visited, and may even report sensitive information, such as passwords and bank information, so it’s a good idea to check for malware regularly. I can personally vouch for their first recommendation, Spybot Search & Destroy, as an indispensable utility.
Read the entire post on malware removal here.
As for data recovery, if you’ve ever plugged your camera’s memory card into your computer and all you got out of it is an error message, such as “There is no data on the disk. Would you like to format it now?”, even though you just took a bunch of pictures with it, then you could use one of these tools to try and salvage some or all of the pictures. This strategy will also sometimes work for recovering files on faulty USB flash drives or failing hard drives.
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