Anti-spyware programs

Discussion in 'Software' started by NorthViking, May 6, 2004.

  1. NorthViking Administrator

    Here are some of the most popular and best anti-spyware progs.

    AdAware - www.lavasoft.us

    Spybot S&D - www.safer-networking.org

    Spysweeper - www.spysweeper.com

    HijackThis - http://www.spychecker.com/program/hijackthis.html (Useful when your homepage or search page keeps changing) (Warning, do not delete anything if you aren't experienced. Deleting wrong things can mess up the computer !)

    CWShredder - http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html
    (Direct link - http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/cwshredder.zip)

    Spywareblaster - http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html (this program will prevent
    spywares from beeing installed, very neat prog)

    Remember to keep the programs updated.

    Info what spyware is http://www.spychecker.com/spyware.html
  2. w00t! Now my fortress shall be impenetrable.!
  3. NORTON INTERNET SECURITY PRO 2004. very good if your willing to pay ;)
  4. thanks NV very handy

    Cheers to that man
  5. Anyone ever heard of one of those darkwars punks placing some type of trojan into a system? I have used Spybot,adware,google tool bar,Nortons, AVG, pest patrol, hijackthis and several others to remove it wiht no luck. It opens my IE when I log on an goes to that person's site and get them another hit. I changed the content setting in IE to block the site but it still opens a window.
  6. Heh, don't know what you're talking about and don't know how to fix it, but it sounds kinda funny ;)
    vivek_pundir likes this.

  7. I am working on having the last laugh. I created a profile on that site and people are rolling over on him already.
  8. thx ! ! !
  9. " NORTON INTERNET SECURITY PRO 2004. very good if your willing to pay "

    Ya, it is very good...i like AD best
  10. TheOneSmokey <table style="filter:glow(color=red, strength=2)">

    Adaware SE came outa few days ago :D When i ran adaware 6 i got 9 things, then I ran adaware SE and got 342! god prog, newer adaware cant be abd for you :D

  11. actualy no-

    i run ad-aware se pro, and spy bot s&d 1.3 and use hijack this, but still none of these have been able to touch a hijack that i have. basicaly it adds a search bar, changes my home page, displays a pop up and displays its serch when a url is not found... but ad and sb cant touch it, neither in safe mode or normal :redembarr

    ad ware can be ver tenious
  12. in response to the first post, spysweeper is a great program, but the address you have listed is incorrect. the address for the real program is http://www.webroot.com The site which you have listed just smells of some company cashing in on the success of the true program, and more than likely putting spy/adware on your computer by downloading their "adware remover."

    Personally, i only run spysweeper now. I didn't think i would buy this prgram, as i thought adaware and spybot search and destroy were both working great. But i d/led the trial version after i had a nasty problem those two programs could not fix, and spysweeper fixed. But it's definately a worthy investment of $30.
  13. Yupzz... i use webroot spy sweeper myself... and am lovin it, yo:p:D

    But why infest monney in spy ware or antivirussus if ya can download em :grinangel
  14. TheOneSmokey <table style="filter:glow(color=red, strength=2)">

    NAV 2005 here :) Also got TeaTimer and Adaware SE pro :D
  15. ZoneAlarm doest kill the spyware, but at least it alerts you when some Spyware programme on your PC wants to connect to the net (and give out personal info). From there you can tell the firewall to block the programme.

    http://www.download.com/3000-2092-10039884.html?part=zonealarm&subj=dlpage&tag=button

    BE WARNED: using Zone Alarm with Norton Anti Virus can create very annoying conflicts. I recommend NOT using both. Better is to get another Anti Virus (like the one I use: www.avast.com )
  16. alright I have a question for you, Iam still a computer novice how do I know wich programs I can delete when I use spybot search and destroy? I run ad aware6 like twice a day. my brother came over for me like 3 months ago and found like 150 things on my comp and freed up like almost a gig and a half of space now its starting all over again I went from having almost 3gigs of free space to having like less than half a gig of free space and the only thing I installed was battlefield 1942 and I know its not that big of a game. it shouldnt have taken up that much room even with the new patch installed
  17. ad/spy ware doesnt generaly take up large amounts of hdd space. Anything that spy s&d detects can be and should be deleted............
  18. ive started using spyware doctor from pc tools. is this one ok cos it seems to bring up a lot of things that other programs dont.
  19. basic rule of thumb.
    if 1 prog finds more problems than a nothere 1
    the 1 that finds most problems and fixes them is the best.

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