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Thanks! IT is very useful for me.

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.

wowwwwww thanx

is zone alarm good? where i can see the review from many anti-spyware (test result?)