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Community => Watto's Junk Yard => Topic started by: Morgbug on April 11, 2004, 01:28 AM
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Have a new computer, so time to upgrade/install some antispy ware for ye new beast. Looking for suggestions from the good folks here. Anything here http://www.spychecker.com/topdownloads.html catch your eye?
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http://download.com.com/3000-2094-10045910.html?legacy=cnet
This is a DL for Ad-Aware. It's what I've been using and seems to do the trick for me AOK.
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I still use & recommend SpyBot. Best one out there & many other members from other forums have used it with no problems.
Help! I've picked up a nasty parasite! (http://www.galactichunter.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=TOR&Number=32543&page=1&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1)
New pop-ups? (http://www.galactichunter.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=TOR&Number=33223&page=&view=&sb=5&o=&fpart=1&vc=1)
I also have the free edition of Pop-Up Stopper. No problems with it either.
Pop-Up Stopper Free Edition (http://www.panicware.com/product_psfree.html)
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Yup, popup stopper was pretty much the first thing I did. Every page I went to had one, or so it seemed.
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I'll agree with Dale... Spybot Search and Destroy works great for me. I instaled Adaware 6 on my mother's comp. and I don't find it as easy to use....
Scott
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I'll agree with Dale... Spybot Search and Destroy works great for me. I instaled Adaware 6 on my mother's comp. and I don't find it as easy to use....
Scott
A combo of both those programs will most always do the trick. All computers that I service for having spy issues are done this way and I am always satisfied with the results.
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Ditto here on Spybot and I use AdsGone for those annoying pop-ups.
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I used ad-aware and my machine seems to be clean.
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I tried the Pop-up stopper Free Edition that Dale recommended, didn't work for me.
Sure it would block a pop-up, but everytime it did IE6 would crash for some reason.
Now, it still is IE6,m so who knows WTF that crappy piece of buggy SW is doing!
I need to get a real browser, unfortunately where I live the max speed I can get is 24,600 Kbps on dial up. No cable, no DSL, no nothing! Its quiet but my internet life sucks!
Downloading a new browser would take hours!
Scott :(
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Today I was looking up some lyrics to lay the smack down on JediMAC...I found the song "Open Arms" by Journey and I accidently hit a pop up window yes button
All hell broke loose, 4 programs started installing at once, 2 of them were really nasty (Virtual Bounce and Ad Destroyer) and were causing browser pop ups and slow down of my computer in general. I did an Uninstall and deleted what I thought looked suspicious
I had to download 2 different Spy-Bot programs, Norton and something called Ad-Aware and it cleaned up everything.
I love it that there is war between the "good guys" at places like Norton and Spyware losers
And to end
So now I come to you with open arms,
Nothing to hide, believe what I say
So here I am with open arms,
Hoping you'll see what your love means to me
Open arms
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Ad-Aware, I've personally found, to clean EVERYTHING out.
My buddy CorranHorn got me onto the Ad-Aware thing. It pretty much fixed a problem I had that I was gonna take my PC to get worked on, it was that bad.
I've not needed anything else, so I recommend it to anyone. I just run Ad-Aware now when I run Scandisk and Defrag once a month. It's just routine... Or when I know I got something nasty on (as you did Scott. That EXACT scenario has happened to me maybe 3 times already).
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ad-aware is definitely the best one around. if you get the ad-aware pro version, there is another utility called "ad-watch" that actually monitors your registry, and then blocks and alerts you when malicious code is attempted to be installed. it's saved my ass many times with alert messages.
another good program is spybot:search and destroy. but if you have ad-aware, that's pretty much all you need.
yet another program i would recommend is a utility called hijack this. it does a scan of your computer and alerts you to all programs that you have running at startup. i've found that this sometimes finds some crap that even ad-aware misses. but not too often.
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Yep those are the three I have, Spy Bot I had been running for a while, Ad-Aware was great though, bammo!
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Topic: Spyware (anti) - any suggestions? (http://www.jedidefender.com/yabbse/index.php?topic=4187.0)
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Topic: Spyware (anti) - any suggestions? (http://www.jedidefender.com/yabbse/index.php?topic=4187.0)
Aren't you a mod here? ::)
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I have Norton Internet Security running and have had no spyware problems since loading it. I also got a router and installed both at the same time.
I used to suffer from spyware constantly. But since taking the above measures, I've not had a single problem.
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Topic: Spyware (anti) - any suggestions? (http://www.jedidefender.com/yabbse/index.php?topic=4187.0)
Aren't you a mod here? ::)
Use the search engine! ::) :P
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Ad-Aware, I've personally found, to clean EVERYTHING out.
My buddy CorranHorn got me onto the Ad-Aware thing. It pretty much fixed a problem I had that I was gonna take my PC to get worked on, it was that bad.
I've not needed anything else, so I recommend it to anyone. I just run Ad-Aware now when I run Scandisk and Defrag once a month. It's just routine... Or when I know I got something nasty on (as you did Scott. That EXACT scenario has happened to me maybe 3 times already).
Now if you would only listen to me and use ******* Mozilla!!! I swear people, the best piece of internet related software you could ever download is the Mozilla Firefox web browser. Not only is it a fast, clean and smooth running app, it's got a lot of Java, ActiveX, popup, adware, etc protection that the piece of crap known as IE will never have, without downloading a half dozen ancillary pieces of software.
After Firefox, all you will need as previously mentioned is Ad-Aware and Spybot: Search & Destroy to crush any haphazard adware/spyware that gets on your machine from other net uses suchs as P2P or e-mail. And of course a solid virus scanner whose company updates it's virus definitions every day is a must.
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I defy you sir.
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Wow, weird that this even came up and Ad-Aware SE was even suggested as today our tech guy installed this in all the computers at the office and told me that this would be the best thing for me to run at home. He said a two year download would cost me about $45.00 bucks and then proceeded to show me all the little miner bugs (or whatever they are called) that were on my hard drive at the office.
I have yet to go to www.lavasoft.de and do anything but since this is his job, I pretty much follow all his suggestions.
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I defy you sir.
[yoda]That, is why you fail.....[/yoda]
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I only fail when I ask you why IE's not wrking. :) And that's not THAT often. Like twice a year tops, and usually my own fault.
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Now if you would only listen to me and use ******* Mozilla!!! I swear people, the best piece of internet related software you could ever download is the Mozilla Firefox web browser. Not only is it a fast, clean and smooth running app, it's got a lot of Java, ActiveX, popup, adware, etc protection that the piece of crap known as IE will never have, without downloading a half dozen ancillary pieces of software.
while i would agree with this, mozilla does have it's own issues. it may seem silly, and petty, but my mouse doesn't work properly with mozilla. i have one of the logitech trackball thingies with this little wheel that they call the "webwheel" - it's the little scroll wheel like a lot of mice have nowadays, but when you press it down, it pretty much gives you a little round circle of links, kinda like what's at the top of your browser... basic stuff, like 'home', 'back', 'reload', etc. and i've been using it for a while, so i've gotten used to it. but those functions don't work in mozilla :'(
and mozilla's e-mail client isn't the greatest either. if you have multiple emails - like i do - outlook can check them all at the same time. but i couldn't get mozilla to access all four of mine without going and clicking on "check mail" under each identity seperately. again, silly and petty, but extremely annoying.
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Now if you would only listen to me and use ******* Mozilla!!! I swear people, the best piece of internet related software you could ever download is the Mozilla Firefox web browser. Not only is it a fast, clean and smooth running app, it's got a lot of Java, ActiveX, popup, adware, etc protection that the piece of crap known as IE will never have, without downloading a half dozen ancillary pieces of software.
while i would agree with this, mozilla does have it's own issues. it may seem silly, and petty, but my mouse doesn't work properly with mozilla. i have one of the logitech trackball thingies with this little wheel that they call the "webwheel" - it's the little scroll wheel like a lot of mice have nowadays, but when you press it down, it pretty much gives you a little round circle of links, kinda like what's at the top of your browser... basic stuff, like 'home', 'back', 'reload', etc. and i've been using it for a while, so i've gotten used to it. but those functions don't work in mozilla :'(
and mozilla's e-mail client isn't the greatest either. if you have multiple emails - like i do - outlook can check them all at the same time. but i couldn't get mozilla to access all four of mine without going and clicking on "check mail" under each identity seperately. again, silly and petty, but extremely annoying.
well for overall web browsing experience and security mozilla is the way to go. but i do agree with you that it does have some quirks. when i first started using it, the buttons up top like home, stop, reload, back, etc, the little images wouldn't load and all i would get is a black outline. it was a known issue with that particular version and was resolved by the next release. that's the great thing about mozilla, though its a continuing work in progress, you can interact with those working on mozilla via mozilla.org and let them know of any problems you've experienced as well as look up a list of known issues.
i have no experience with the e-mail client however, so i can't say anythign good or bad about it. i used to use outlook myself at home and have to use it at work and its a good program to use so long as you are careful with the attachments that are sent your way.
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Mozilla is rather quirky. Just my (http://theforum.dallasgothic.com/html/emoticons/twocents.gif)