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Spyware Programs
#114706 11/01/05 10:39 PM
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I have to tell you all about my few day's in computer hell.

To make a long story short I had some spyware on my computer that for the life of me I could not get rid of. It was changing my homepage, popping up all sorts of IE screens trying to sell me something etc etc etc I loaded and ran the following programs trying to get rid of it:

Ad-Aware
SpyZooka
Microsoft Antispyware
Spyware Blaster
XoftSpy

and one more that I can't remember. At the end of it all NONE of the above got rid of it. One of the last ones I tried did and that was a program called Ewido.

For any of you who are in the spyware battle, try this program as it is the best I have seen by far.

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#114707 11/01/05 11:03 PM
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Glad to hear that you got rid of the spyware. I use Firefox and highly recommend it to everyone. Also, I run two programs Ad-Aware and Spybot Search & Destroy and those can get rid of pretty much anything.


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#114708 11/01/05 11:03 PM
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Glad to hear that you found something to take charge of that spy ware junk Never, we've been using Webroot Spy Sweeper for several months and it seems to do a fine job of keeping that nasty unwanted stuff out of the system...so far!


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#114709 11/01/05 11:12 PM
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Spybot Search & Destroy was the other one that I had tried.

For some reason this spyware was a total pain and nothing knew what to do with it.

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#114710 11/01/05 11:32 PM
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Wow, I have yet come across spyware that that combination would not clean... but browser hijacks are the worst. I'm glad you got rid of it no matter what program you used.

Of course, if you really wanted to get rid of the problem there's always linux. I have not had a single instance of spyware in linux yet. I run a dual boot gentoo linux / windows machine... I always use linux unless I have to run a program that will only run on windows. Now, if you really want to go to the extremes then there's always no internet connection... but then there woud be no axiom forum so I'm pretty sure that wouldn't work.


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#114711 11/01/05 11:59 PM
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Using Firefox instead of IE basically removes 90% of the ways spyware can get onto your computer. That reason alone should be enough to convert you.

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#114712 11/02/05 01:06 AM
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Aside from the spyware reason, I really think the best reason to switch to firefox is tabbed browsing. I don't think I could live without it. IE v7 will have tabbed browsing but then you still have the spyware issues. Whenever I use another computer that only has IE I find myself still right clicking the link and looking for the "Open Link in New Tab" button, or middle clicking.


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#114713 11/02/05 02:09 AM
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Panda is a bad Mofo too, it found what no other spyware removers could find and removed them very quickly. It was a huge download compared to others like spybot and adaware. I am talking about the pay version not the freeware.


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#114714 11/02/05 07:45 AM
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My company uses the yearly subscription-based CounterSpy software by Sunbelt. It does a great job and has kept about 200 computers spyware free for the last 7 months. It has active blocking, so it keeps spyware from getting installed. And if spyware gets past that, it also scans and removes files automatically every day.

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#114715 11/02/05 03:33 PM
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A bit off topic here, but Sony BMG has started installing rootkits with their copy protected CDs. For you non-techies, these are programs that hide themselves from the operating system (in this case Windows) and users and change core system files. In other words, they could be considered viruses. These rootkits are poorly written and could allow (more) malicious code to get on the system. There is also no uninstaller or good way to remove them. Sony's line is that this is to prevent unauthorized copying of their media. My line is don't buy Sony CDs. Here's an article/editorial on the subject.


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