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[concertina226]

With more and more new spyware and adware programs being created every day, more and more spyware removers are becoming obsolete... which ones do you use?

Spybot Search and Destroy has stopped working for me, so I switched to using the Yahoo! Toolbar Anti-Spy Detector, which seemed pretty good for a while until the other night when a nasty spyware program managed to crash the program before it could continue the scan!

So I checked Download.com and they had this wicked new free program called Spyware Doctor. It does a full computer scan of every single file and removes ALL spyware, adware, bad cookies, toolbars... all sorts of stuff!

I installed it on my comp and ran the scan, and it found 1069 infections in my computer! So yeah, I personally think this is a really cool program... apparently if you buy the full version it gives you realtime anti-spyware blocking and toolbar blocker, whereas the free version just gives you the spyware remover and realtime updates, but not bad, eh?

So do you know any other good free anti-spyware/adware programs?

[Saint_Michael]

good luck most people who create the spyware and adware know about the programs that block them yahoo don't work

try webroot it worked ok

[Klass]

I would download and run these programs listed here:
http://www.astahost.com/spyware-adware-rem...-all-t5246.html

Install, Update, Scan. Definatly do the free ones. After you run them once, reboot, run them again, Reboot (fingers crossed) the issues should be gone.

[gfu]

Cool!!
im using Spybot - Search & Destroy as well!
its pretty good and free!!

[alicia91]

I have Ad-Aware SE Personal and it is free, it works really good.
Spybot - Search & Destroy doesn't work as good because I had it installed on my computer and I had Ad-Aware SE Personal installed at the same time and I did a scan with Sbybot and it found 1 or 2 spyware.
With Ad-Aware SE Personal it found over 100 sbyware, ad-ware and even malware.

[Shifty510]

gfu, on Jun 24 2005, 09:22 AM, said:

Cool!!
im using Spybot - Search & Destroy as well!
its pretty good and free!!

yeah i use that to it okay but it gets the job done

[Pipirupi]

I use ad-aware

first of all, its shiny =w=

and it removes most malwares and I usually use it with spy-bot.
I heard that spydoctor is pretty good, and i might download sometime to check if my adaware missed anything.

But right now, my adware is running fine and its more than enough for me. ^^

Use firefox if u can, it reduces the number of adwares and spywares u get! (by a lot, but doesnt mean you wont get it at all

[Joshua]

Pipirupi, on Jun 24 2005, 05:08 PM, said:

I use ad-aware

first of all, its shiny =w=

and it removes most malwares and I usually use it with spy-bot.
I heard that spydoctor is pretty good, and i might download sometime to check if my adaware missed anything.

But right now, my adware is running fine and its more than enough for me. ^^

Use firefox if u can, it reduces the number of adwares and spywares u get! (by a lot, but doesnt mean you wont get it at all

I'm pretty content just using spybot and ad-aware, most computer professionals I know recommend those ones. I actually heard of them first from an instructor in one of my computer classes, Mr. Skaggs.

I've heard of Spydoctor but never tried it myself. I also have something called Hijack This on my computer which shows all the executables and stuff on your computer that affects stuff, but it's more for an expert user who knows what to get rid of and just needs to find it. Pretty powerful tool though.

[FuChelle]

Like so many others here, I also use Ad-aware. It seems to work pretty good. I have Spybot S&D too but I rarely use it because it doesn't seem to work as well...I don't think so anyway. Occasionally it finds 1 or 2 things that Ad-aware doesn't find but that's very rarely, so I tend not to use it.

I also have SpywareBlaster, which is good. It's like a firewall but for spyware, and it stops spyware and adware from even being loaded onto your computer in the first place. Since I started using SpywareBlaster, the only things I've found from Ad-Aware scans have been tracking cookies from a few websites, which is pretty good....means it must be doing it's job.

[ARNEL]

Both of them are good, spybot destroyer, yahoo anti-spy, micros spyware are ok, but the things is, some program or spyware program don't detect with some other programs.. like spybot detect spyware from the microsoft while microsoft don't do. Microsoft detect spyware program from yahoo while yahoo don't do....

It,s up to you which of them your're going to used.