I now use Microsoft's official spyware scanner its great! Since using it cookies found by Ad Aware has decreased to 50! Lol!
Hey Dudes, I been using spyware doctor (yes I bought it) I found it removed stuff that all the other popular spyware programs couldint. Also been using Xsoft Spy it seems to work well as well
yes, different programs pick up things others dontm i read in a survey of which magazine that the best scanner is ad-aware's and the best protection was MS beta from what the had on test, now this was a freeware test however. its always good to e protected
To true Dude, I am learning fast. Tryed to download nocd cracks from some dodgy sites, when you try to execute the crack all this ++++ just erupts out, porno toolbars etc MS beta blocked it everytime. Also just staying out o dodgy sites helps as well :blaceyes
yes indeed, keep off the porn and did my suggestion really help you? if it did then glad i was able to help
some of the tools listed here are ok but i've tried most of them and will never again. most of the spyware they detect are cookies, you have to recieve cookies to view most all sites you visit. some of these progs even remove important parts of your other programs(not often though). I only use ewido antivirus (the best bar none), bitdefender v10 firewall (just switched from norton 2007, used it for 5 years) noticed major improvements on system resources, it was a good decision. bitdefender also has antivirus, antispam, and antispyware (same as norton accept norton was only good for use as a firewall). i also quite like xoftspyse, i'd rate it 9/10 but i like the speed for a quick full system scan. ewido free version is the best one i've found yet as it is fully functional as a scanner, but the active shield is not functional unless you buy or find a serial etc. i bought it nearly a year ago and nothing yet compares to it. there is no funky sh*t going on on my computer. thats not to say i've not had problems, twice now i've had to reinstall windows, but it was not the fault of my progs. i simply got lazy and proceeded to open a file without scanning it first. i tried many things to remove the virus but they could not be removed. (do not open or run any files on your computer without first scanning them, even if you trust them) ewido has found probably 100 viruses,spyware, adware, and trojans in things i've downloaded, all of which would have been unleashed without it, some of which was released just by downloading it, it simply tried to run at the very instant the download completed, i would not have even known if it hadn't caught it for me. i think it was $50.00 (Canadian). and i do believe it is a Czechoslovakian (sorry if i spelled it wrong) program and it's somehow linked to avg (grisoft) dont misunderstand, i realy dislike avg 7 (free version) the first and second time i tried that one i got two viruses(piece of crap) mabey the purchased version is better ? you can find ewido at (http://www.ewido.net) i learned about it from afterdawn.com forums excellant site by the way. p.s. my rating for a few programs Norton any version - 8/10 good firewall piss poor for anything else Bitdefender v10 - 9/10 to early to be sure xoftspy any version - 9/10 to much to install to get the equivelant to ewido Ewido - 10/10 cant find anything wrong with it spyware doctor - 5/10 fu*ks around with registry keys too much it failed to fix anything, i think it may have just made things worse. system mechanic pro 6 - 4/10 seems good so far but use with caution as it will remove things nesseccary to microsoft eg. screwed up my hp updates by removing a vital part of the progromming, i had to deactivate it to stop the error. be sure to read everything before proceeding with a removal. spyware nuker - 1/10 piece of sh*t registry mechanic - 6/10 i liked it but in the end i quit using it, it to may have been the root of a few problems, messes with those damn keys. anyway hope i helped someone, any questions just ask, this thread will be on instant notification for a while
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Yeah Lavasoft Adaware it's a pile of crap. I don't know why they keep updating it coz never finds nothing. Spyware Doctor, Xoftspy. Spysweeper, are lot better than this useless program And for Windows defender. (It comes bundles with Vista) I didn't like it disabled from the background long ago coz used to slowdown my machine as the same for the useless securitycenter (I'm not a noob not need a reminder every 5 seconds that certain program need to update or security is disabled reminder ) and the incipient windows firewall that less that do is protect the machine (Any savvy user knows that won't really protected with that thing and need a proper one)
I find Windows Defender is quite good, it picked up a virus infection I had on my laptop the other day.
When I installed vista at the beginning had an infection Windows defender detected but couldn't remove. can't remenber the name of the spyware infecting program. Anyweays i haven't launched the program for some momths and I don't plan to do it . What I don't like about windows defender is way that monitors everything. WEll anyways I don't let any antispyware program M$ product or not run with on time protection. I don't like coz conflict with programs and my games and waste resources. I only let run antivirus and firewall for system protection and untick any unneeed processes crap in msconfig I use the spyware program just for do periodic scans. I alos don't like automated scans coz slowndowns my games when I am playing I do them manully every certain tome And to be sincere installed Spyware Doctor 5.0 upgrading from 4.0 and ++++ed off my system I unistalled and on't paln to put again until the fix those bugs. But ussally detected spyware some other porgrams fails bad thing are those long loading services services imes and that crap it it easn''t for could be a very good product gonna use newwr version of spyware sweeper instead. Anyways I haven't had really dramatic spyeware infections in some months by now jutsr some minimal . But when i installed vista at the beginnig had several severe ones I don't know if was coz I didn't a good firewall installed I don' t know
Wow, you've had a spyware infection on Vista? I've had nothing at all, no spyware no viruses, I thought it was immune for a while!
@Acal you can actually TURN OFF the realtime protection and use Windows Defender solely as a SCANNER!!! Google and download "StartupCPL" You can minimize things that boots with windows then much easier. Oh yea if u hate Microsoft, why use VISTA?!??! You constant bash MS, yes they are FAR from perfect but in the end, on XP for me, everything I need works..its not open source but it sure as hell beats the crap from Macintosh... Ad-aware weekly scan finds about 20 tracking cookies on my laptop and now and again a troajn or adware bundler, its a matter of opinion! I find (though dont use as its a waste of resources) AVG Anti-Spyware is actually pretty decent for anyone looking a decent Antimalware protection suite. Spywareblaster from www.javacoolsoftware.com is also a nice lil proffy and its freeware
Well I didn't bash M$ this time as hard as i sometimes do it . And I use windows sometimes coz you can't play games in Linux and wine is far to be a good simulator . Linux aint perfect anyways had it's glitches too What mainly dislike from from M$ it's not exactly the windows Os itself. It's the company ways to do the things. For example that things Halo 2 Windows Vista only. Direct x 10 not compatible wirh XP. XP need reactivate when changing hardware coz thinks is installing on another machine. The monopolictic tactic as long as other things is what i don't like about M$
I tried AVG Anti-Spyware trial version and it found more adwares and spywares than any other. I tried many of them in 1 go. And more importantly it don't eat much of a ram. :wink:
I agree the Halo 2 thing is a shambles but I am happy to announce with a few libraries (found on net) Halo 2 WILL work on XP NOT flawlessy yet of course, they are still in beta but it installs, launches and i played the first level fine...then it hung loading the 2nd lol but I hear reports some users are having no problems at all.
Many spywares comes back even after removing, when visited to some site. Is there anyway to stop these spywares from entering into pc/from getting installing.
Yea, stop visiting the site or install spywareblaster and update it and spybot search & destroy but make sure when installing the sd helper is ON!
Yeah some spywares keep reinfecting again when were removed. that sometimes happens coz the antispyware programdsdidn't remove all traces the spyware program uses and keep redownloading them. And some of them even auto update their components assimilar as antivirus prigram does to not get detected by the antispyware programs The best way in these cases is have several anti spyware programs and sca with all them coz some spywares componetnts elude from certain antispyware program and not being removed completely. And you know different programs pick up different things But I would not recommned just stay with program like lavasoft Adware as only scanner This program has declined during some years (in the past was more effective) an don't detect infections as used too. Spybot S&d is good but has declienedt too It's fails to remove completely some spywares some times but it's better tha LAvasoft Adaware.. The spyware blaster feature when I used it on Xp also don't seems to be very effective to block infections ( I don't know if in later versions got improved I used long ago) And never trust flamers like Masterdork (the one from xp myths flame circus thread that got deleted ) That said that free antpyware prigrams gives a a better rate then paid spyware programs giving (99% of rate) That doesn't true No program will give so high rate of detection and I have had better results detection spyware with paid programs than free ones Also another things that could keep you getting infected as the same with virus are the windows vulneravilities that can infect you with only browssing on the net here is where the M$ security updates enter to patch the hole (And why I like Linux more since its' constantly upgradiingthe whole code updating the kernel and all that getting some distros release a new even every 6 months six moths so the vulneravitiles get fixed more faster not jjust patching the same code with small patches during several years that is the M$ way ) Some infections like one called "trojan.downloader. generic" or something like that ( there are several variants) it's a pain to remove sometiemes it infects on several files of the hd
Not visiting particular site is no solution. My AVG anti-spyware shows paypal as spyware...........how can I stop visiting paypal site! And there are many others. Isn't there any program which will scan for spyware before opening the contents for browsing. Stopping it from installing is better than removing it after installation.
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