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heels_fan
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not so fast

some of those peices of spyware that he has listed as not being cleaned by SPybot and Ad-Aware, I know for a fact are been detected and cleaned.

I use Spybot and Ad-Aware on a daily basis, sometimes 3 and for times a day.

IMHO, SPybot and Ad-Aware are the best 2 anti-spyware programs out there and there free. You wont find any novice PC user going to spend money on anti-spyware software.

does this guy work for Giant Spyware?
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Re: not so fast

said by heels_fan See Profile:
does this guy work for Giant Spyware?

"this guy"....Eric L. Howes....is a respected member of BBR's Security Forum....among many other Security\Privacy Forums....who has gone above and beyond the call of duty....by sharing his knowledge\expertise. He in no way has connections to Giant Spyware.

said by eburger68 See Profile:
Finally, it should be noted that I have no financial relationship with any of the companies or individuals whose products were tested. I am not an employee, affiliate, representative, or other agent of any of these companies or individuals.
said here---> The Test: Design & Methodology

Mike
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Re: not so fast

www.staff.uiuc.edu/~ehowes/main.htm

Yeah I think Eric is a noob.
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Re: not so fast

hmm shows a re director. did he hack into the system and put his picture there ?

It's all a conspiracy I tell ya, all a damn conspiracy. Ok I gotta go back into my shelter the guys in the black suits are coming.
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said by heels_fan See Profile:


does this guy work for Giant Spyware?

rofl

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some of those peices of spyware that he has listed as not being cleaned by SPybot and Ad-Aware, I know for a fact are been detected and cleaned.

I use Spybot and Ad-Aware on a daily basis, sometimes 3 and for times a day.

IMHO, SPybot and Ad-Aware are the best 2 anti-spyware programs out there and there free. You wont find any novice PC user going to spend money on anti-spyware software.

does this guy work for Giant Spyware?
TopMoxie I know for a fact SpyBot S&D cleans, maybe he has a very different variant?

However, there is no reason to accuse him of working for Giant Spyware... I just installed the program and got it to do a full scan. It found two false positives, and no spyware. The reason for this is because I already do daily full system scans with Spybot S&D 1.3.1b, AdAwareSE, and PestPatrol. I can say that out of any spyware protection program I have used, I like Giant's interface the best. As for false positives, pestpatrol generates a ton more (20+) before I tell it to exclude the files, when I do a thorough scan.

In short, this test is an awesome reference chart with some scientific (?) errors. Props to the security forum dude who made this.
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said by heels_fan See Profile:

I use Spybot and Ad-Aware on a daily basis, sometimes 3 and for times a day.

Holy smokes, I hope you're supporting a huge fleet of PCs and not talking about scanning a single PC 3x per day...

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