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[ManDudeChild]

What programs work really well for getting rid of spyware? I find Spybot S&D crashes on me whenever i use it.

 

[norinrad21]

I haven't had any more problems with ads, pop ups etc since i switched to Norton Anti-virus a few weeks ago.

 

[8bit]

adaware

 

[ManDudeChild]

I use adaware, that doesn't take care of as much as Spybot S&D which, as said in original post, crashes.

 

[Scoobert]

Adaware SE really is good. Time for you to upgrade to Adaware SE.

 

[M3wThr33]

Did you try Ad-Aware SE? The new one?
Spy-bot checks for things installed, Ad-Aware checks every file, regardles off location against signatures.

Just be careful in your search, many companies like to add false positives to their programs to make them look better.

 

[ManDudeChild]

Sweet zombie Jesus, Ad-Aware SE has caught over 77 Critical objects ... so far. The normal Ad-Aware only caught 14 keys.

 

[Error Macro]

Yeah, this Ad-Aware SE is pretty rockin'. Thanks for the heads up dudes.

 

[SKluck]

I got McAfee's free through that lawsuit thing. It works pretty well. Checks every file so it takes forever, it catches most things. Though it doesn't bother with cookies, but maybe that is a setting somewhere. And it didn't catch something with the latest updates that Spybot did with like a 3 month old update.

Nothing is perfect.

 

[LakeEarth]

Well my computer has been acting up a bit lately, so I downloaded Ad-Aware SE even though Ad-Aware, Norton and Spybot didn't find anything...

And the final grand total of spyware missed by those three programs is...

124!!! DEAR LORD!!

One was a 'possible browser hijack attempt' which is bad since I recently bought something online... hope they didn't get no credit card number or anything.

 

[Pellham]

where do you get Ad-Aware SE?

 

[LakeEarth]

Whenever you need a download, just go to www.download.com and search for Adaware SE.