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Anti Spywear
me ^ | 12-19-04 | Don

Posted on 12/19/2004 11:21:08 AM PST by Don@VB

What are the best Anti Spywear applications?

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What are the best Anti Spywear applications? Are there any good freewear/sharewear versions? This spywear has really become a major pain!! Your opinions are appreciated!
1 posted on 12/19/2004 11:21:08 AM PST by Don@VB
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To: Don@VB

AdAware and SpyBot are both free. Just Google the names.


2 posted on 12/19/2004 11:22:45 AM PST by Pusterfuss (You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right. LBJ)
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To: Don@VB
Lead underclothes, to protect against X-ray spex?

;-)

3 posted on 12/19/2004 11:23:09 AM PST by dighton
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To: Don@VB
"What are the best Anti Spywear applications? Are there any good freewear/sharewear versions?" Spywear, eh? You mean like this: "

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For freewear, go to the Salvation Army. For sharewear, get a roommate.

4 posted on 12/19/2004 11:26:22 AM PST by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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To: Don@VB


Check out my FR homepage. I've got some useful informatin there.


5 posted on 12/19/2004 11:27:53 AM PST by Malsua
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To: Don@VB

Use Firefox and Thunderbird.

Used to get hundreds of spyware hits when I used IE. I get, on average, 3 per scan now.


6 posted on 12/19/2004 11:28:59 AM PST by 1_Inch_Group (Libraria del Pueblo: Guilty of section 1511 (obstruction of State or local law enforcement) RICO)
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To: Don@VB
Firefox! From a certain point of view. If you browser is less susceptible to getting Spyware I would consider that Browser to be a tool in itself.
7 posted on 12/19/2004 11:29:59 AM PST by KoRn
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To: Pusterfuss
AdAware and SpyBot are both free

Word. These two should work for the average users. You should use both as no one program catches everything. But if you have teenagers are are an active or indescriminate downloader (think Kazaa), you may need more robust protection. Here is one of many sites that will give you an overvierw. http://www.download.com/Spyware-Center/2001-2023_4-0.html?tag=dir

8 posted on 12/19/2004 11:32:04 AM PST by Drango (Those who advocate robbing (taxing) Peter to pay Paul...will always have the support of Paul.)
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To: Don@VB
AdAware and Spybot are good and free but I found that they missed some malware.

The best I've found (but not free) is Giant Antispyware from Giantsoftware.com

Noticed on thier website just now that Microsoft bought them on Dec 16.

You might still be able to find the demo download somewhere. Works for 15 days.

9 posted on 12/19/2004 11:33:23 AM PST by FReepaholic (Proud FReeper since 1998. Proud monthly donor.)
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To: Don@VB

Hmmmm....not using Windows?

It's a radical step, but some have taken it. Depends on what you need.

You can try Linux from a bootable CD, see if it works for you. I'd be the first to admit, it's not for everyone.


10 posted on 12/19/2004 11:35:48 AM PST by proxy_user
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To: Don@VB

Lavasoft's Ad-ware Personal SE, Spybot's S&D Search and Destroy and Javacool's Spywareblaster all take the prize and they're all free. The first two are scanners that detect and remove spyware from the computer and the reason one ought to have both of them is in case on scanner catches something the other misses. Spywareblaster is a preventive application that prevents the bad stuff from every being installed by inoculating your Internet Explorer and Mozilla browsers. The simplest means of keeping out spyware is to get Eric L. Howes' Spy-ad IE, which is a simple registry patch that adds thousands of malicious sites to the restricted zone, preventing them from ever installing unwanted software behind your back. It is also free.


11 posted on 12/19/2004 11:36:37 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: Pusterfuss

http://www.free-av.com/

This has been working very well for me.


12 posted on 12/19/2004 11:39:56 AM PST by Salamander (Insert appropriately deep thought here------->)
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A good anti-trojan program is also recommended to look for stuff anti-virus scanners ignore. I run Ewido Security Suite and the plus version with real-time monitoring and automatic updates is worth every penny. http://www.ewido.net


13 posted on 12/19/2004 11:43:46 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: goldstategop

Oddly enough, that program has caught several trojans that tried to hit me from websites.
Spybot has alerted me to numerous things that tried to install themselves from apparently "reputable" websites, as well.
The weirdest occurrence was when I was downloading a mouse driver from Logitech.
Spybot cheerfully announced that a "keylogger" was trying to install itself.
I have no idea what Logitech is up to, with that.


14 posted on 12/19/2004 11:48:51 AM PST by Salamander (Insert appropriately deep thought here------->)
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To: goldstategop

Correction;
I was downloading a -keyboard- driver.

Duh...:-P


15 posted on 12/19/2004 11:50:05 AM PST by Salamander (Insert appropriately deep thought here------->)
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To: goldstategop

Free trojan scanner;

http://swatit.org/

Seems to be adequate.


16 posted on 12/19/2004 11:51:48 AM PST by Salamander (Insert appropriately deep thought here------->)
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To: Salamander

You have to instruct it to ignore harmless downloads from reputable websites. That's what is called annoying you with a "false positive." ;-)


17 posted on 12/19/2004 11:52:02 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: tscislaw
The best I've found (but not free) is Giant Antispyware from Giantsoftware.com

Which, according to today's news, has been bought by Microsoft.

18 posted on 12/19/2004 11:52:39 AM PST by CaptRon (Pedecaris alive or Raisuli dead)
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To: Don@VB

I am a big advocate for spybot and it works well for most spyware. But once I got a mess of spyware that spybot wasn't finding so I purchased Pest Patrol and I find that it does a better job in releasing updates for the latest spyware.


19 posted on 12/19/2004 11:58:28 AM PST by PFC
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To: CaptRon

The website's been shut down as it transitions to life as a Microsoft subsidiary.


20 posted on 12/19/2004 12:00:08 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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