Good Spyware Article

[idigTexas]

We get a lot of spyware posts here. I found this article to be very informative. The conventional wisdom of Ad-aware + Spybot may not be the best solution anymore. You'll need to scroll down a little to get to the actual article.

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[Born_a_Longhorn]

Nice article. Not that I have any solutions myself, but its truly baffling that the absolute best spyware removal software out there can only delete 63% of infections.

I'd be curious to see what the total percentage would be for the big three free programs: Webroot Spysweeper, Ad-aware, and Spybot.

 

[hook'em_horns]

if you look online typically you can find spy sweeper for free... www.webroot.com

 

[Heisman 98]

I finally got my computer free of that virus I posted about last week. I learned more about computer software code and spyware than I ever wanted to know about. I now have a dozen spyware/virus detectors on the computer and have each run once a week. Some pick up viruses that others do not. Bitdefender on line has been the best on line scanner I have found, followed by Trend Micro Inc.

If you don't have it yet, I highly recommend downloading the HijackThis.exe program, which allows you to view your internet access codes and allows you to change/delete any lines that are redirecting you to BS sites.

Spywareblaster, Killbox, CCleaner and CWS shredder all proved to be invaluable to my manual removal of this virus.

I hope I never have to experience this again, but I now have downloaded all the files needed to deal with it if I should have to.

 

[Born_a_Longhorn]

I just wanted to add that rebooting Windows in Safe Mode before running these spyware removal programs can increase their success greatly.

 

[next2naus]

blaming MSFT is not fair to MSFT, the market place asked for Windows to be the way it is. a stripped down version is more secure but that typically means users have to learn more about running their OS and Apps versus the click-n-go that's the standard of the day.

I could go on for hours about this and about the sublte nuances of Scanners, Anti-Spyware, AV, etc.
it all starts with configuration management and stopping the drift.