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One useful tool which has been developed by the music industry is a free piece of software called Digital File Check. It will help you to identify which file sharing services are on your computer, and if you want to, it will also remove them. Again see the Info Centre for more information about this.

You also need tools to make sure that your computer is protected against viruses and spyware. Spyware is the biggest pest that you can get from File sharing sites—these are little software programs which are used to get information about you, so that the website owners can sell you things. You can download free spyware cleaners from the internet, which you should run on your computer on a regular basis. You can generally get free anti-virus software from your internet service provider, or click on our summary advice for the good websites to go to.