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10-28-2004, 11:28
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Preferred Anti-Spyware??
I recently switched to XoftSpy, which seems to work well enough, but it has some operational drawbacks. What are you using, and are you satisfied with it?
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10-28-2004, 12:09
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We've been using AdAware for awhile now, and it seems to work great. We had Spybot for awhile, but it consistently missed stuff that the AdAware would catch, so I deleted it. I just started using SpySweeper, and so far it seems to work well, finding everything that AdAware finds. It is interesting to run a couple different programs to see what one missed and the other finds.
Both this programs are easy to use.
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10-28-2004, 12:38
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Always Faithful
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Please read the sticky at the top of this forum. The programs they recommend perform just as well or better than paid ones.
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10-28-2004, 13:01
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CLM Number 93
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Quote:
Originally posted by NetNinja
Please read the sticky at the top of this forum. The programs they recommend perform just as well or better than paid ones.
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Dayum! You'd think I just fell off the turnip truck, wouldn't you?? ;9
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It took a Carter to bring us a Reagan
"The principal feature of American liberalism is sanctimoniousness. By loudly denouncing all bad things — war and hunger and date rape — liberals testify to their own terrific goodness. More important, they promote themselves to membership in a self-selecting elite of those who care deeply about such things.... It's a kind of natural aristocracy, and the wonderful thing about this aristocracy is that you don't have to be brave, smart, strong or even lucky to join it, you just have to be liberal."
-- P.J. O'Rourke (1992)
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10-28-2004, 13:10
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Ancient Tech
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Well, Slim, I use BOTH Spybot 1.3 and Ad-Aware.
That way, you get a Second Opinion each time you scan, and unlike antivirus apps, there is no problem with having both of these apps installed simultaneously on your PC.
Just use one first, then scan with the other; don't run both scanners at the same time!
And, yeah, there is some good reference material in the sticky!
Good luck,
FastVFR
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10-28-2004, 13:28
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After updating and running Spybot and Ad-aware scans, I do the free scan at http://www.pestpatrol.com - it will list explicitly whats (still) on your box, files, cookies, registry entries. Then I take a few minutes to clean it up manually.
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10-28-2004, 14:01
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all of my problems went away when i installed the adware defense program called "linux".
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10-28-2004, 14:12
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"Get Some!"
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I use Ad-Aware SE, spybot, hijackthis, and CWShredder. That seems to cover just about everything.
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10-29-2004, 14:22
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Quote:
Originally posted by David_G17
all of my problems went away when i installed the adware defense program called "linux".
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Haha.
Do one better; if you must use x86 hardware (and it's not on the Solaris HCL), use one of the BSD's so that you actually have a stable ABI. Me, I just don't use x86 hardware.
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10-30-2004, 10:18
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Quote:
Originally posted by hile
Haha. Do one better; if you must use x86 hardware (and it's not on the Solaris HCL), use one of the BSD's so that you actually have a stable ABI. Me, I just don't use x86 hardware.
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Me, I gotta straddle the fence. I do find Windblows useful for some purposes.
A couple of years ago I was negotiating with a guy in San Antonio for his quad Ross processors for my Sparc 20. He threw in a HyperSparc 30 with 1GB of RAM and twin 9GB HDDs as boot!! I wasn't familiar with the HS30 but I bit anyway. When I got it I did some investigating and found out it sold new in 1998 for $23,000. And I got it free.
So now I have two quad-CPU SPARC boxes with a total investment of $700. Not everything resulting from the Dot-Com collapse was bad. 
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It took a Carter to bring us a Reagan
"The principal feature of American liberalism is sanctimoniousness. By loudly denouncing all bad things — war and hunger and date rape — liberals testify to their own terrific goodness. More important, they promote themselves to membership in a self-selecting elite of those who care deeply about such things.... It's a kind of natural aristocracy, and the wonderful thing about this aristocracy is that you don't have to be brave, smart, strong or even lucky to join it, you just have to be liberal."
-- P.J. O'Rourke (1992)
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10-31-2004, 13:30
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CLM Number 93
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;g
So far I've run XoftSpy, Spyware Blaster, Ad-Aware and SpyBot. Each one of them has found bitzen pieces that the other(s) missed.
Like I said. ;g
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It took a Carter to bring us a Reagan
"The principal feature of American liberalism is sanctimoniousness. By loudly denouncing all bad things — war and hunger and date rape — liberals testify to their own terrific goodness. More important, they promote themselves to membership in a self-selecting elite of those who care deeply about such things.... It's a kind of natural aristocracy, and the wonderful thing about this aristocracy is that you don't have to be brave, smart, strong or even lucky to join it, you just have to be liberal."
-- P.J. O'Rourke (1992)
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10-31-2004, 21:19
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I use linux, personally. Also, when I am running in Windows mode, I am careful what I allow on my system, it is unstable enough already. 
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11-01-2004, 10:55
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Quote:
Originally posted by Tennessee Slim
Me, I gotta straddle the fence. I do find Windblows useful for some purposes.
A couple of years ago I was negotiating with a guy in San Antonio for his quad Ross processors for my Sparc 20. He threw in a HyperSparc 30 with 1GB of RAM and twin 9GB HDDs as boot!! I wasn't familiar with the HS30 but I bit anyway. When I got it I did some investigating and found out it sold new in 1998 for $23,000. And I got it free.
So now I have two quad-CPU SPARC boxes with a total investment of $700. Not everything resulting from the Dot-Com collapse was bad.
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sweet!!!!! too bad those are sun4m
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11-01-2004, 11:12
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CLM Number 93
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Quote:
Originally posted by hile
sweet!!!!! too bad those are sun4m
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Truth. Now I'm Jonesing for a 64-bit SPARC box. Maybe I'll build a 'server room' around an E-3500.
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It took a Carter to bring us a Reagan
"The principal feature of American liberalism is sanctimoniousness. By loudly denouncing all bad things — war and hunger and date rape — liberals testify to their own terrific goodness. More important, they promote themselves to membership in a self-selecting elite of those who care deeply about such things.... It's a kind of natural aristocracy, and the wonderful thing about this aristocracy is that you don't have to be brave, smart, strong or even lucky to join it, you just have to be liberal."
-- P.J. O'Rourke (1992)
Last edited by Tennessee Slim; 11-01-2004 at 11:15..
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11-03-2004, 15:16
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AdAware, but make sure you have SE, it catches an incredible amount that 6.0 missed.
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11-03-2004, 16:30
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CLM Number 93
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I loaded AdAware SE Pro, updated it, ran it, then immediately after loaded and ran SpyBot. Spybot still found a hatfull of crap. 
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It took a Carter to bring us a Reagan
"The principal feature of American liberalism is sanctimoniousness. By loudly denouncing all bad things — war and hunger and date rape — liberals testify to their own terrific goodness. More important, they promote themselves to membership in a self-selecting elite of those who care deeply about such things.... It's a kind of natural aristocracy, and the wonderful thing about this aristocracy is that you don't have to be brave, smart, strong or even lucky to join it, you just have to be liberal."
-- P.J. O'Rourke (1992)
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11-03-2004, 16:34
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AdAware and Spybot find a few different things.CCleaner also finds some spyware aswell as cleaning hidden files.When I use CCleaner with Spybot, AdAware doesn't find anything so there is some overlap.CCleaner is fast.It might not get the heavy stuff or update but it's a great program.
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11-03-2004, 16:35
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Did you get the Spybot updates too?
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11-03-2004, 16:42
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I just installed the beta version of the next Spybot.It's an unauthorized release but it searches for the same things as the current release version.It is faster.It scans quickly.
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11-05-2004, 14:46
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GOOO SOONERS!!!
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Although it is not free you should check out SpyWare stormer. I have used adaware and spot bot for a long time, and decided to try a pay for use title to see if it was anymore better. I ran spybot and then adaware and then stormer. Stormer found a lot of stuff that the other 2 had missed so now I stick to just stormer.
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11-05-2004, 15:04
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