Spyware removal tools
This subject seems to be a biggie everywhere I look ... Just thought I would share this tidi bit I gleaned from my PCWorld Magazine ... I have tried the software and found it to be very good for a freeware product.
Hope you all like it ... I know I do ... it was very useful especially in getting rid of the GAIN network stuff that kept coming up ... the Only draw back was that it took a reboot to get rid of some of the ones and it needed to be run twice to get rid of them all ...
mairving posted this at 20:07 — 20th November 2003.
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Yeah, some require a reboot if the program is loaded into memory. Spybot does a great job and it has one drawback to me...that I can't set the program on a users machine as admin and make it have global settings. It only works for the logged in account. Other than that I have been using it for a couple of years. It works a little better than AdAware IMO.
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DU-Squid posted this at 21:02 — 20th November 2003.
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For those of you who don't know what adaware is...http://www.lavasoftusa.com/ I find them to both be nice tools but I prefer AdAware. Sometimes when you are checking run the program a few times. I have seen them miss things sometimes and pick them up on a second scan.
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Jack Michaelson posted this at 21:24 — 20th November 2003.
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IMO AdAware is the best.
mvander posted this at 22:06 — 30th December 2003.
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auditmypc has a good online spyware checker.
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residual2 posted this at 10:42 — 14th January 2004.
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yeah id definetly go with the Spybot search and destroy, excellent program.
eod posted this at 01:13 — 2nd March 2004.
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Adware is your best bet, if it makes you feel safer, run two programs. I do a checkup with Adware every few days.
iamlost456 posted this at 01:37 — 12th March 2004.
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I agree with eod. I have both installed, both can detect fiels the other seems to miss. If you have to choose one, for speed I would go with Adware, for power i would go with spybot.
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kb posted this at 17:50 — 12th March 2004.
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I bought the pro version of Ad-aware, which includes automatic pop-blockers...add another line of defense.
I (auto)run Ad-aware each time the computer is turned on...it finds something probably 1 out of every 3 times. I have had this computer for 6 months...it's found 459 different little things (registry, scripts, etc.). I don't even download that much.
HeddaLora posted this at 03:55 — 23rd March 2004.
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I third the motion on AdAware -- it's great.
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jhonas posted this at 04:34 — 5th January 2011.
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spyware doctor is the best .
MrThind posted this at 12:51 — 9th October 2012.
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Thread fire and spyware doctor is the best for spyware.
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