O/T Superb FREE anti-spyware

[Proteus]

For all you fellas sick of being "tele-mugged" by porn diallers or constantly hijacked by the dreaded Xupiter toolbar(virtually impossible to uninstall) or just sick of slow connections due to various pop-ups, trojans, spy apps etc THIS FREEWARE IS FOR YOU.

It's called Spybot and it is a piece of piss to install.

The first time I ran it on my machine it found over 800 rogue apps buried deep in my directory files!!!

Go to:


http://security.kolla.de/

[Nerd]

Any help?

I have Norton Personal Firewall on my machine, should I need something like anti-spyware software or am I covered?

A shiny new link to porn if you can help me!

[buttsie]

I've got the same firewall and I still got spyware before i downloaded

Adaware from first and then

Spybot second(this program is the better of the 2 IMPO)

I now run Spybot mainly because it doesn't delete programs as adaware does(which can result in the original downloads not working.It merely renders the hidden programs useless

Firewalls don't stop the hidden programs which always enter you're computer when you download free pics or vids

They will stop viruses but not hidden programs which are primarily designed to track your surfing movements

cheers
B...OZ

[mike johnson]

I agree w/ this. I installed Spybot when Ad-aware was moribund, & think it a very good program;it will even clean out your IE cookies & files if you want. When Ad-aware v6 came out, I installed it too. But if I could have only one, it would be Spybot.Both are very easy to update now.
BTW- I also use a trojan scanner called Swat It, another free utility. Easy to DL, install, & update, but scans take up to half an hour.Not pro-active AFAIK.

[Brad]

How do you actually delete the bad files

thanks

[joe king]

how do you know spybot doesn't have spyware?

[Eric]

I was wondering that myself.................

[woodgnome]

i was pondering this possibility with an acquaintance only today. fact: since i've being using ad-aware, the amount of spam i've received has increased almost exponentially. an unhappy coincidence, i'm sure...

[Lizard]

I agree Woody,I,m convinced ad-ware allows spam thru, I have got mail washer, an excellent programme, allows you to look at all your mail before opening it, then delete/bounce it back,or somewhere else, and blacklist, a good piece of kit.

[woodgnome]

thanx. i'll have a shufty.