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RE: Adware and Spyware
Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 2:41 pm
by 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.
RE: Adware and Spyware
Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 2:42 pm
by 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 [;)]
RE: Adware and Spyware
Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 2:52 pm
by 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.
RE: Adware and Spyware
Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 3:40 pm
by 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.
RE: Adware and Spyware
Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 5:13 am
by 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.
RE: Adware and Spyware
Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 5:56 am
by 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.
RE: Adware and Spyware
Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 8:00 pm
by 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.
RE: Adware and Spyware
Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 5:34 am
by ilovestrategy
Ok, I'm using Firefox now. I like it. For spyware, I run spysweeper and Spybot.