On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 07:46:53 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 06:58:36 -0500, "scott downey"
wrote:


Everyone should run Ad Aware and SpyBot to remove all the cruddy spyware
coming in off the net.
My daughter installed a screen saver and there was so much attached spyware
her computer could barely function


I got news for you - Adaware and SpyBot didn't get half of the spyware
on that computer.

You need to add Pest Patrol and No Adaware and forget about SpyBot.

SpyBot is useless.

Uh... care to expand on this theory of yours?

I use SpyBot from time to time in conjunction with an anti-adware
program and they both seem to find what they are supposed to find.

What's so terrific about the two you are recommending?

I bought into the SpyBot/Adaware freeware concept and relied on them
to keep things out of the computer. Based on the first results, I
even sent the guy who developed SpyBot $25 I was that impressed.

Then I noticed that something was amiss - the computer started acting
strange again - popups and the spam started to escalate. Then I got
whacked in an email trojan on a .jpg that Norton missed (which is a
whole 'nother story) and was passed by a member of a lure maker/rod
building mailing list I'm a member of. Couldn't get rid of it.

SpyBot never caught it and neither did Adaware. Norton would catch it
on a scan, but couldn't delete or quarantine it. I started looking
around researching the trojan and came across Pest Patrol. Bought it
and WOW - what a difference!! 168 - count'em - 1 6 8 bugs, trojans,
spys and such - a bunch of them bugs that SpyBot was supposed to
eliminate.

Since then, run side by side with SpyBot, Pest Patrol has caught much
more than SpyBot - most of it in the form of cookies which execute
spys.

It's the same with Noadaware - much better performance and it actually
does what it says it does.

Like I said, I wouldn't give you ten cents for SpyBot - lesson
learned.

Later,

Tom