Adware and Spyware

[Yamato hugger]

I use Spybot, but I alsp pay (like 20-30 bucks a year) for Spysweeper. Sweeper catches a lot of the stuff that snuck by Spybot.

[Yamato hugger]

ORIGINAL: Brausepaul

As someone mentioned before: the best way not to get in contact with adware and spyware is NOT TO USE THE INTERNET EXPLORER and inform yourself about secure browsing in general.

Its true. Use firefox in conjunction with whatever spybot type program you use. It doesnt work well in this forum, but everywhere else its fine [;)]

[SuperKing]

ORIGINAL: Yamato hugger

ORIGINAL: Brausepaul

As someone mentioned before: the best way not to get in contact with adware and spyware is NOT TO USE THE INTERNET EXPLORER and inform yourself about secure browsing in general.

Its true. Use firefox in conjunction with whatever spybot type program you use. It doesnt work well in this forum, but everywhere else its fine [;)]

Quite right.Just install firefox(or anything else but IE,good antivirus+firewall & you're as secure as you can be.

[Brausepaul]

@ Yamato Hugger
What kind of problems do you have with this forum? And which FF version is in use? I use a customly built 1.04 and I don't notice any problems.

[ilovestrategy]

ORIGINAL: Toast

I work part-time at Best Buy as a member of the Geek Squad and we have to use multiple applications in order to clean an infected machine. Ad-aware, Spybot and Spysweeper are our baisc tools but we also make heavy use of Hijack-This and CWShreader for the browser hijackers and SpyDcotor and the Microsoft and CA tools for particulalry bad infections. We also recommned our customers stop using IE and use Firefox instead to prevent further infections.

I just took your advice and downloaded Firefox lol. I run Spysweeper once a week, I havent used Spybot before though.

[Warfare1]

Use over-lapping coverage.

Right now I am using Firefox, Ad-aware 6.0 (it's completely free and is updated at least once a week with an easy to use updater) and Spybot S&D.

Do NOT use Spybot on its own. Ad-aware consistently gets bugs that Spybot misses.

I run Ad-aware AND clean out my temp internet folder every time I log off the internet.

[Zakhal]

Just visited sister and checked her computer. 176 addware/troyans found. And of course the virus-soft cant remove not one of these (many of them in win folder).

Im really going to install linux for her next.

[ilovestrategy]

Ok, I'm using Firefox now. I like it. For spyware, I run spysweeper and Spybot.