Computer software for disk backup and restoration, disk imaging, and bare-metal restore for computers, namely, servers, workstations, desktops, laptops, and mobile computers; software for file backup, deployment of backup agents on remote computers, and creation of disk backup images over the network, restoration of databases, files and folders, disk cloning, incremental disk backup and backup image verification; software for backup scheduling and scripting and manuals sold therewith; computer software for system deployment using disk imaging; software for the creation of a disk image of a standard configuration, including the operating system and applications; software for the deployment of the image to multiple computer systems; software for configuration management tools to configure system settings, manage files, and execute applications on networked systems during and after the deployment and manuals sold therewith; anti-spyware software for networked computers, workstations, desktops, palmtops, laptops and other mobile devices in business, home and mobile environments; software for protection of computers from spyware, adware, keyloggers, hidden dialers, browser hijackers, and other malicious programs, software for prevention of exposure of confidential information, management of spyware control and prevention tasks, namely, management of spyware-related tasks on networked, mobile, desktop, and non-networked computers, and management of spyware-related tasks from a central location; software for the removal of spyware programs, monitoring computer system for suspicious applications; software for prevention of spyware installation and updating of spyware definitions; software for prevention of pop-ups and blocking/preventing pop-up advertisements and manuals sold therewith. Software for secure deletion of data and disk partitions on a hard disk; software disk wiping, for formatting the disk drive and for partitioning the disk drive and/or deletion of selected partitions along with the disk wiping process and manuals sold therewith; software for resizing, copying, deleting and moving of disk partitions; software for the creation of dual boot and multi-boot environments, manual editing of the hard disk, and partition recovery of lost or deleted partitions and manuals sold therewith