Scanning for spyware.

[mart]

I've just done a free scan which found 3 nasties. It won't get rid of them unless I subscribe. Funny how my other 3 regular scans didn't find them.
How many different checks should one do?
Paranoia, here I come.

Mart

[Snake Diamond]

what Spyware was found & what programs do u run on your system ?

[Deuce Bigolo]

Theres more bogus programs out there than there are real ones

I've run similar programs which mysteriously picked up soemthing the others missed...a ploy just to make you sign-up

Quite a few of the known BOGUS programs are listed at

towards the bottom

How paranoid should you be...not very if your running the best firewall, uptodate anti-virus and your email account has a decent spam filter

cheers
B....OZ

[mart]

The one that was labelled as High Risk was kontiki. I think that got in some time ago via a Downloader.
It was found by XoftSpy.
My regular 3 scans are Adaware, Spybot S&D and Spysweeper.
I run ZoneAlarm, updated yesterday but my ISP isn't 100% efficient vis a vis Spam.

Mart

[Deuce Bigolo]

cheers
B....OZ

[jeffhaskeft]

just tried downloading this my norton anti virus deleted it stating that a trojan virus was with it.
stay clear people

[harrypsauce]

New one on me...but my tame software provider swears by it

http://www.avast.com/i_idt_171.html

[mart]

See my earlier post about Adaware. Whenever I run it AVG keeps telling me that its got some nasties in it. But when I scan it with AVG, nada!!!!

Mart