Spyware-adware removal help needed (yet another vanity)

March 8, 2008 | processing please hold

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I've been searching for a free download version of adware/spyware removal. The sites I find says free but after turning a couple of pages on the site, dollar signs are always at the end of the article.

Is there a truly FREE download, no bait and switch?

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Any help would be appreciated. Off topic, comic responses are okay, I need a laugh or two.

[Focault's Pendulum]

Adware SE Personal version and Spy Bot Search and destroy.....both free

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I think we had a thread just recently....

[Soaring Feather]

http://snapfiles.com/

[ShadowAce]

[FReepapalooza]

To my knowledge, Spybot is still free. Of, course they’d like you to sign up for more bells and whistles, but the basic program is free. Sometimes they make it hard to find the “free” button, for obvious reasons.

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Thank you. I’ll check it out.

[Bernard]

Spybot is still free, although they will try to sell you a purchased copy. Go to download.com and search for spyware or adware.

[Domandred]

Spyware: www.lavasoft.com search for their free version of ad-aware. If it’s not from lavasoft it’s not the real thing.

Anti-virus: free.grisoft.com and download the free version of AVG. So good I’ve many times thought about actually buying their commercial version.

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I can’t even find my own post on FR in the last few days. I typed in tech support in the upper right hand corner and checked threads. I saw nothing that could help me.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Look thru this thread ...others on the malware keyword list....:

Trojan Horses & Computer Help

[PeaceBeWithYou]

Spybot S&D

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Thank you. I’ll go to the sites suggested and bookmark them.

[SledgeCS]

I use Ad-Aware and SpyWareBlaster myself and really like the combo.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

try the malware keyword list....and read thru some of the threads on recent changes to FreeRepublic ...for the new ways to do the old searchs etc....lots and lots of discussion...

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Of, course they’d like you to sign up for more bells and whistles, but the basic program is free. Sometimes they make it hard to find the “free” button, for obvious reasons.

That seems to be the ones I found, they want money. I'm not a bells and whistle kinda gal, just the spyware/adware removal kind. :)

[jdm]

SuperAntiSpyware or Malwarebytes.

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I went to lavasoft and clicked on the free home version. It wasn’t, I’ll go back and see what I missed concerning the free part.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Here's a thread regarding the FR changes:

Who keeps tinkering with FR?(Yes this is a VANITY)

[HAL9000]

After all the time and money wasted trying to protect Windows computers, it’s a better deal to just buy a Mac and quit worrying about it.