Re: Brief poll, your preferred spyware?

From: Bob P (bpolk1939_at_fuse.net)
Date: 01/04/05 

Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:14:45 -0500

The idea of "loading up" may seem like an overkill but just wait until
your system goes down. You may pay someone a couple of hundred dollars
to get you backup but most likely you'll just lose everything and
spend a day or two cleaning out the boot record. And that's the east
part! Don't forget, the main trouble is identity theft, put a value on
that, will you. Once loaded, there is little work involved with the
applications listed here by Yves Leclerc. As many people have found
not one program catches everything. I would add one more to the list,
IE-SPYAD, this is a list added to the restricted sites zone. Since
adding IE-SPYAD to ADware & spyBot I've not seen any cookies or
spyware. I guess it just depends on how important it is to keep one's
system up and running................These are good applications, free
to anyone at no cost. Except CA's Pest Control. And for antivirus
don't overlook CA's eTrust, it's not free but worth every penny of the
cost.....
"Yves Leclerc" <yleclercNOSPAM@maysys.com> wrote in message
news:e7jU5hq8EHA.2060@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>A lot of people I talked with "swear" on CA's PestPatrol. They say
>it catches everything, but it is not free.
>
> A complete list a anti-spyware utilities:
>
> AD Aware SE 1.05 ( and do the updates)
> Spybot: Search and Destroy 1.3 (do the updates!)
> CWShredder (always check for updates)
> Zone Alarm Free firewall (much better than SP2's firewall)
> A good anti-virus system. Avast and Avg offer a free version
> WITHOUT Technical support. You can still get the updates.
>
> HiJackThis (the ultimate spyware removal tool. Not easy to use but
> you can post to free web forums and others would suggest what to
> remove with this program).
>
> Also, as much as possible, always do Microsoft's Windows Updates, so
> as to get all the latest fixes for XP weaknesses.
>
>
>
> BTW: It was suggested that anyone who does not use Microsoft's
> Internet Explorer, or any other browsers, will not get spyware. I
> have yet to see any confirmation about this!
>
>
>
> "George" <air1@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
> news:O4IwWsp8EHA.1228@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>> Could I ask a few pro's about which package(s) you prefer to use,
>> and reasoning behind this.
>>
>> I'm using WinXP pro and would like to install anti-spyware. It's
>> widely known that AdAware and Spybot are the current big two...and
>> sure there are some up and comers and other good ones. Also,
>> McAfee now has one.
>>
>> Most people say to install more than one package, but it seems to
>> me that "loading up" with multipe packages creates a lot a lot to
>> install, manage, and keep updated, for diminishing returns.
>> AdAware is the most downloaded and seems to get rave reviews.
>> Spybot also gets great reviews and has great extras like a
>> file-shredder and start-up manager, but screenshot I saw looked
>> 1990's.
>>
>> I'm thinking about installing only two... Ad-aware and McAfee
>> AntiSpyware, since it would seem certain McAfee would keep getting
>> better and have a rapidly growing base of definition files with the
>> McAfee empire of resources behind it.
>>
>> -What do you think about this plan and pro's/con's of...
>>
>> -Ad-aware SE Personal-
>>
>> -Spybot Search & Destroy-
>>
>> -McAfee Anti-Spyware-
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> George
>>
>
>

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