Sid
Premium
join:2002-11-29
Santa Maria, CA
2 edits | Spbot is fine for me.
I just use spybot. It works just fine for me. But I do know that a lot of people use both spybot and adaware. But I am going to download spywareblaster. Just havent got around to it. They are free!
Oh yeah, I almost forgot......First post! wooohoooo  -- WinXP,Kaspersky AV,Tauscan 1.6,Outpost Pro,IE & Opera,Becky! 2.07 |
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CO_Chris
Premium
join:2001-08-28
Broomfield, CO | I Use Ad-aware and it works great . If there is better i would try it to |
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Doubledee32
join:2002-06-20
Charlotte, NC | SpySweeper works great!! |
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Cod
join:2000-07-05
Greensboro, NC | reply to CO_Chris
Not to make this a spybot vs. ad-aware dispute, spybot finds a heck of alot more spyware on a PC the the latter. Plus its ability to download updates to detect new spyware makes it incredibly accurate. |
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NightLinks
Premium
join:2001-06-04
Bronx, NY | reply to Sid
I use SPYBOT & ADWARE they both work good for me. |
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lilhurricane
Crunchin' For Cures
Premium,Mod
join:2003-01-11
Purple Zone
clubs: 
 ·Comcast
Host:
TV over IP
Software
RCN
Inside Insight
Team Discovery
| said by NightLinks  :
I use SPYBOT & ADWARE they both work good for me.
Same here...both. |
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tdkyo
join:2002-12-07
Rochester, NY | reply to Cod
Heck, both of them do a good job. What I do is run ad-aware first then spybot to double check. |
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Too lazy to register
@attbi.com
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lilhurricane
| reply to Sid
Re: Spybot is fine for me.
More importantly than which one you like, please donate to the one that you like. It gives the authors incentives to keep the applications supported.
I like spybot and have donated. |
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verolom
join:2002-03-23
Eagleville, PA
·Comcast
| I concur! The only effective way to fight the bastards is with money (as unfortunate as that is). It's too bad that PayPal doesn't exactly have a clean reputation when it comes down to protecting your privacy and your credit card info. Fortunately we can mail a cash donation:
»www.safer-networking.org/index.p···ernative
Oh yeah, Spybot - Search & Destroy rulez!
Actually, come to think of it, most German software rulez! (Ahead Nero, O&O Defrag, OpenOffice, WinRAR (that's Russian, but now is based in Germany, etc.) |
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Unregistered user
@cofs.net | reply to Cod
Re: Spbot is fine for me.
Actually, Ad-Aware can now download updates as well.
I do have to agree, though. Spybot seems to catch more spyware, although I run both, just to be sure. |
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vice8686
join:2000-10-13
Lancaster, CA | reply to NightLinks
Ditto:) |
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NightLinks
Premium
join:2001-06-04
Bronx, NY
·Optimum Online
| reply to Sid
you really should use both SPYBOT & ADWARE
theirs spyware that ADWARE doesn't catch and spybot does and vice versa.
just like TDKYO said I use ADWARE first then I use SPYBOT
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Hall
Premium,MVM
join:2000-04-28
Dayton, OH
 ·EarthLink
·AT&T Midwest
·Earthlink Cable Mo..
| reply to Cod
said by Cod :
...spybot finds a heck of alot more spyware on a PC the the latter.
I'm curious how you tested this... If you ran SpyBot first and cleaned spyware out, that doesn't leave Ad-aware much to find. Say you've got 50 items of spyware and SpyBot finds 45 of them. Clean them out and then run Ad-aware. It finds the remaining 5. That doesn't mean SpyBot is better.
I run both actually. I don't care or think one's better than the other. I know Ad-aware doesn't consider c-dilla spyware, but Spybot does. At the same time, there's probably items that Ad-aware considers spyware that SpyBot doesn't... They're both small, unobtrusive, and free, so like I said, I use them both. |
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Nanoprobe
Crunching in subspace
Premium
join:2003-05-11
Crab Nebula
clubs: | reply to lilhurricane
Same here,spybot& adaware with spywareguard also to help prevent that crap from installing in the first place. |
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ghostpainter
I Write for the Apocalypse
Premium,MVM
join:2002-05-25
Rancho Cucamonga, CA
clubs:
| reply to lilhurricane
said by lilhurricane :
said by NightLinks :
I use SPYBOT & ADWARE they both work good for me.
Same here...both.
I use adaware, but I also have a NAT firewall and sygate, running on all PC's, and then I use DSL broadband security checks and pcaudit to make sure I am suecure...With this setup I have reduced my miner and data tracks hits to maybe 20 a week and registry hits to zero (fingers crossed) Then Norton watches for virus's....I feel secure but am I??? |
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jdir
join:2001-05-04
Santa Clara, CA | reply to Sid
Where I can I download Spbot? |
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Sid
Premium
join:2002-11-29
Santa Maria, CA
| said by jdir :
Where I can I download Spbot?
Download it here: »www.safer-networking.org/
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WinXP,Kaspersky AV,Tauscan 1.6,Outpost Pro,IE & Opera,Becky! 2.07 |
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jsouth
Jsouth
join:2000-12-12
Wichita, KS
| reply to Hall
I think it was Maximum PC that said that Spybot removed a few more "spyware" apps than adaware. Notice a said a few and not "a heck of a lot more" like the previous poster. I believe this is due to spybot having more updates put out than adaware. That said I use both. |
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LaurieDB
Does it really matter?
Premium
join:2003-05-25
Sacramento, CA
clubs:
·AT&T Yahoo
| reply to NightLinks
I agree about using both. I use both and I never have any problems. I also am using SpywareBlaster. In the past 2 years, the only spyware with which I've had to contend was the lop.com hijacker, but Ad-Aware killed it. I'm very careful now to update definitions at least weekly now on all three products. |
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Bill Clo
join:2002-01-15
Lewisberry, PA
| reply to NightLinks
I second that. I use AdAware first, and then SpybotKiller. Spybotkiller frequently finds stuff that Adaware didn't.
It even found some Gator related stuff that Adaware didn't, which is strange because Adaware usually does a good job of rooting out Gator...
Just installed the SpywareBlaster. Thanks guys, for the ideas. |
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