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Postby Antony » Fri 26 Dec, 2003 7:14 pm

SillyDog701 recommends Pest Patrol.

Pest Patrol has good information about most known spyware, adware, downloader, dropper, ... etc all sorts of unwanted files/programmes (or whatever you want to call it). It has a large library of those unwanted pests and good instruction on how to remove them manually.

Although they are selling their products, the Pest Research Center is a very useful reference centre.
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Postby DJGM » Fri 26 Dec, 2003 7:27 pm

Also recommended for ridding your system of spyware . . . Spybot Search & Destroy and Ad-Aware . . .
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Postby Fulvio » Fri 26 Dec, 2003 11:01 pm

Caution about Adaware. It will quarantine files which you have to check out very carefully. I have not been able to use Eudora6.0, Sponsored Mode, because some files were made unavailable. Spybot gives a much better explanation of what's going on.
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Postby Mandrake » Sat 27 Dec, 2003 7:53 am

Spybot, Ad-Aware, The Cleaner, Anti-virus software and a good firewall are all essential to keep a Windows PC in good working order.

Good free programs are AVG and Kerio Personal Firewall. Of course, installing critical service packs and security patches is also a good thing to do, to ensure that you are immune to the latest lot of worms going around.
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Postby Edward » Sat 27 Dec, 2003 9:00 am

ZoneAlarm is another excellent firewall, available in a free version, I use it myself, and have never had a problem with it.
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Postby brett » Sat 20 Mar, 2004 7:29 am

http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm
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Postby Fulvio » Sun 02 May, 2004 9:51 pm

We started going on a tangent, from anti-Spyware to Firewall.
Thanks for the link, "brett".
I am finding the new AdAware 6.0 to work well along with Spybot S & D.
and, the best things is to stay away from Internet Explorer.
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Postby weemer917 » Mon 03 May, 2004 11:47 pm

Even though I am a MSN user, I am staying clear away from IE as much as I possibly can. I have so much spyware detection/removal stuff on here (as well as ZoneAlarm Pro) thanks to my being a bit too paranoid.

My recommendation is to get as much protection your PC can handle. I have AVG, Spybot Search and Destroy, SwatIt (a trojan horse scanner/removal), Spyware Guard, Spyware Blaster, HiJack This, CWShredder, and Ad-aware 6. All have given me no probs.
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Postby djv1 » Tue 04 May, 2004 11:45 am

I used adware for a while but got rid of it when I realized that I had to pay for it in order to get rid of the files. Usually norton will get most spyware so I don't have to worry about it..
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Postby brett » Tue 04 May, 2004 3:27 pm

djv1 wrote:I used adware for a while ...


Not a good idea :wink:

There are 3 versions of Adaware, one of which is (totally and completely) free.
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Postby Ramona » Tue 04 May, 2004 7:19 pm

Excellent site: http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm

Thanks wee Brett!
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Postby weemer917 » Tue 04 May, 2004 8:00 pm

I did come across PestPatrol, but could only use the "demo". The "demo" only finds the probs, but in order to get rid of the pests.....Id have to fork over some money. It did find some pests, but nothing too serious. Im pretty much satisfied with all the software I have.
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ZoneAlarm Pro

Postby Don_HH2K » Sun 09 May, 2004 9:58 pm

In addition to a spyware removal tool, you should invest in a copy of ZoneAlarm Pro for Windows. You can subscribe at www.zonelabs.com
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Postby djv1 » Mon 10 May, 2004 11:44 am

What is Zone Alarm exactly? What does it do?
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Postby Mandrake » Mon 10 May, 2004 8:03 pm

Why pay? You can get the free version which is fine.
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