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To: Sen Jack S. Fogbound
"Spybot and Ad-Aware catch a whole lot more!"

And Microsoft catches things that Spybot and Ad-Aware misses! The problem with all these is that you really need to use them all in order to clean everything. Why can't someone put all of them together?

18 posted on 05/31/2005 7:21:40 PM PDT by TommyDale
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To: TommyDale
you really need to use them all in order to clean everything. Why can't someone put all of them together?

Make yourself a schedule and put them together yourself. Run one scan per day before you shut your computer off, or go to bed, or go home, or whatever.You don't have to sit there and watch it.This is the one I made for my wifes computer at work, it seems to work pretty well.

Monday update and run AVG antivirus

Tuesday update and run Adaware

Wednesday update and run Spybot Search and Destroy, you might as well update Spyware blaster while your at it since it runs in the background in conjunction with Spybot S&D

Thursday Run CCleaner or an equivilant disk cleanup/registry cleaning utility.

Friday Defrag

Note all the above utilitys are free or already on your computer ie.Defrag,Windows also comes with a disk cleanup utility but it doesn't work anywhere near as good as CCleaner.There are many more Microsoft,Yahoo,AOL all have thier own but the ones I've mentioned all work on just about anything from a crusty old P2 to the latest P4s.

79 posted on 05/31/2005 9:33:15 PM PDT by edchambers (Neocon foot-soldier of the Haliburton death squad)
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To: TommyDale; All
And Microsoft catches things that Spybot and Ad-Aware misses! The problem with all these is that you really need to use them all in order to clean everything. Why can't someone put all of them together?

Yep, you need more than one to catch all the garbage out there. FWIW, these two online scanners also look for spyware:

Panda Online Scan

Trend Micro Online Scan

87 posted on 06/01/2005 2:55:29 AM PDT by backhoe (-30-)
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