dygital
join:2004-02-09
Tucson, AZ
| Its the People too, but I hate the scams for this!
Is this anything new? I work at tech support and people get these rediculous programs "SpySpotter, SpyZapper", etc. It's all crap. There are three good spyware protection apps:
SpyBot Search & Destroy
AdAware
AOL Spyware Protection (Not the best, but better than nothing!)
People ought to know better. Damn these scam artists to hell. |
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dks7
join:2004-05-31 | Re: Its the People too, but I hate the scams for t
I myself found I was running 1 of the programs on the list. Guess I will stick with spybot and adaware only. |
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Hall
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Dayton, OH
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said by dygital  :
SpyBot Search & Destroy
AdAware
That's the (2) I use and recommend every day. Then you have to explain that someone also needs a popup-blocker (I point 'em to Google), trojan finder/cleaner software, anti-virus, kept up-to-date, which NEVER are, and the list goes on. 
I hate needing two programs, Adaware and Spybot, to do the same job though... |
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Hardxx
join:2000-12-21
Norristown, PA | reply to dygital
Re: Its the People too, but I hate the scams for this!
another good freebie that goes the extra mile with malware is a2 you can get the free version here:
»www.emsisoft.com/en/ |
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B
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join:2000-10-28
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Re: Its the People too, but I hate the scams for t
Spybot's done the job for me all by itself. This past weekend I worked on a machine with a dozen distinct pieces of spyware (300 traces in all, AFTER I cleaned up the obvious stuff manually) and Spybot cleaned it right out after 2 or 3 passes. Even a (thank goodness) low-order CWS infection.
Ad-Aware's not necessary, although it doesn't hurt as a secondary check.
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antiphishing
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another good freebie that goes the extra mile with malware is a2 you can get the free version here:
»www.emsisoft.com/en/
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I found that this software crashed my computer while running the virus-scan. Have you had this problem?
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Hardxx
join:2000-12-21
Norristown, PA | no, but i do notice a slow down while it scans the drive.
I have 512 megs of ram so I guess that compensates a bit?
But it found 2 trojans nortons missed.
For that I'm grateful |
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antiphishing
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But it found 2 trojans nortons missed.
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I found the A2 Square antivirus to be very slow when trying to run the virus scan part of the program. It may have been a memory corruption problem that caused my computer to crash.
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