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| wareagle11 | Sep 14 2005, 05:44 PM Post #1 |
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whats a good free spyware scanner? |
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| TK3+ | Sep 14 2005, 05:49 PM Post #2 |
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Ad-aware SE + Microsoft AntiSpyware |
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| Myriad | Sep 14 2005, 05:55 PM Post #3 |
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Sypbot - Search & Destroy is also nice. |
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| KoolDrew | Sep 14 2005, 06:02 PM Post #4 |
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All the ones already mentioned are good (Microsofts being the best), you should also have something like SpywareBlaster to help prevent spyware. Also don't use IE; something like firefox or Opera would be good (I prefer Opera). |
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| TK3+ | Sep 14 2005, 06:09 PM Post #5 |
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HiJackThis is another good program for removing programs like spyware, etc. |
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| KoolDrew | Sep 14 2005, 06:18 PM Post #6 |
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Don't even bother with that. Only use it when told so by somebody who knows what they are doing and all other methods have failed. Even if you do have to use Hijackthis, do not remove anything yourself without being told to do so. There are plenty of forums where you can get help with Hijackthis logs and that would be a much better idea. |
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| TK3+ | Sep 14 2005, 06:19 PM Post #7 |
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Yes, it is useful if you are not a n00b. But, there are some useful sites as you mentioned. Here is one: http://www.tomcoyote.org/hjt/ |
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| Ordinator | Sep 14 2005, 07:57 PM Post #8 |
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hay yoo guyz!!1
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I use AdAware. Its very good, I recommend it. |
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| Stephen-ZNR | Sep 14 2005, 10:29 PM Post #9 |
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stop it. no srsly.
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I remove spyware for the company I work for almost daily through their network, and Spybot Search and Destroy 1.4 has worked better than all the other's I've ever tried, which is a lot. If the damn employees would just leave the auto-protect features on, we'd be set. But they don't, and we haven't made it password protected yet. |
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| TK3+ | Sep 14 2005, 11:46 PM Post #10 |
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CCleaner is good for all-purpose computer cleansing. |
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| Meltdown | Sep 15 2005, 02:08 AM Post #11 |
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The Schtig
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Spyware Doctor detects all the crap my other scanners don't. I recommend that :). |
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| Rew@EntertaiNet | Sep 15 2005, 05:05 AM Post #12 |
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Seconded. Spyware Doctor is very reliable. Having installed it for the first time, it wiped my computer clean of anything useless and the performance of the PC greatly enhanced. |
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| Ross | Sep 15 2005, 06:38 AM Post #13 |
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Inspire
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I use a combination of things. First off switching to Firefox drastically improved how much spyware I get. My scans now rarely turn anything up when I used to get 50+ things each few days. I have protection from SpywareBlaster which helps stop the junk before it even gets in there, and its free. Then I use Ad-aware and Spyware Blaster to finish the job and rid my machine of any that does manager to get in. |
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| nate32 | Sep 15 2005, 07:47 AM Post #14 |
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I would say using any of these will be great. http://free.grisoft.com/doc/2/lng/us/tpl/v5 - AVG http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/cata...d=dbtopnav_zass - Zone Alarm for Firewall http://www.microsoft.com/ - Spyware & Virues removal http://www.download.com/Spybot-Search-Dest...4-10122137.html - Spybot and any of these here will work for ya to http://www.download.com/Adware-Spyware-Rem...tml?tag=nav_dir - All free downloads. |
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| Doffy90 | Sep 15 2005, 08:28 AM Post #15 |
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That boy is a mons†er
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http://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-SE-Person...tml?tag=lst-0-2 I use that one & I use Spybot S&D |
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