Looking for good and free anti-spyware

[moi]

Hi,

just one small, but important, question.....

any good and free spyware killert somewhere ????

thanks for your opinions

[data64]

"moi" <t@t.com> wrote in news:bmj9r4$pt7$1@news-reader3.wanadoo.fr:

> Hi,
>
> just one small, but important, question.....
>
> any good and free spyware killert somewhere ????
>
> thanks for your opinions
>
>

"Ad Aware" and "Spybot Search and Destroy" are both free and very popular
in this newsgroup.

data64


excerpt from the group FAQ:

Ad Aware:
http://www.lavasoft.de/
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
http://lavasoft3.element5.com
Three mirror sites from where you can download Ad-Aware, a spyware
eliminator. Lavasoft (makers of Ad Aware) forum:
http://www.lavasoftsupport.com (requires registration)

Spybot Search and Destroy:
http://security.kolla.de/
http://spybot.eon.net.au
Spyware eliminator. SpyBot threats database:
http://spybot.safer-networking.de/index.php?
lang=en&page=knowledgebase/threats
(URL may mirror to another, depending a server load at the time)

[shplink]

On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 11:15:50 +0200, "moi" <t@t.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>just one small, but important, question.....
>
>any good and free spyware killert somewhere ????
>
>thanks for your opinions
>
From the FAQ:

Sponge's Site:
http://www.geocities.com/yosponge/
Sponge is a regular contributor to this newsgroup. His site is full of
good information for beginners and advanced users alike.

Kerio:
http://www.kerio.com/us/kpf_home.html Kerio is the firewall preferred
by a lot of experienced users. See sponge's site above for specific
rule sets tailored to your requirements.
http://www.blarp.com/faq/faqmanager.cgi?toc=kerio Kerio firewall FAQ.
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/kerio Kerio forum at DSL Reports

Zone Alarm:
http://www.zonelabs.com Zone Alarm is a firewall popular among
beginners.

Outpost Firewall:
http://www.agnitum.com/products/outpost/#

Proxomitron:
http://www.proxomitron.org
or http://www.imilly.com/tools.htm Free web proxy server.

Privoxy:
http://www.privoxy.org/ Same as the Proxomitron, but also runs on
Linux

Ad Aware:
http://www.lavasoft.de/
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
http://lavasoft3.element5.com
Three mirror sites from where you can download Ad-Aware, a spyware
eliminator. Lavasoft (makers of Ad Aware) forum:
http://www.lavasoftsupport.com (requires registration)

Spybot Search and Destroy:
http://security.kolla.de/
http://spybot.eon.net.au
Spyware eliminator. SpyBot threats database:
http://spybot.safer-networking.de/in...gebase/threats
(URL may mirror to another, depending a server load at the time)

DNS Kong:
http://www.pyrenean.com/dnsintro.php DNS lookup redirector

Spider:
http://www.fsm.nl/ward File cleaner, will deal with the infamous MS
"hidden files" among other things.

A hosts file:
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm

Hijack This!
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/index.html There's a link for a
great utility that wipes out Kazaa entirely, which works as well as
Hijack This! A note on the latter, use with caution, it's a bit of a
Beta utility. If you use it, post your scan results log in the
newsgroup for us to check out before you take any further action.

Spywareblaster:
http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareblaster.html Preventive tool.

MRU-blaster:
http://www.wilderssecurity.net/mrublaster.html Detects and cleans up
MRU lists and other "hidden" stored information.

SpywareGuard:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/downloads/swguard/ SpywareGuard provides a
real-time protection solution against spyware that is a great addition
to SpywareBlaster's protection method. An anti-virus program scans
files before you open them and prevents execution if a virus is
detected - SpywareGuard does the same thing, but for spyware! And you
can easily have an anti-virus program running alongside SpywareGuard.

Andrew Clover's parasite detection page:
http://www.doxdesk.com/parasite/ Contains a script that scans for
common parasites.

Chris Quirke's Malware page:
http://users.iafrica.com/c/cq/cquirke/malware.htm A bit out-dated but
informative.

CEXX:
http://www.cexx.org/adware.htm
CEXX discussion board:
http://boards.cexx.org/

Mike Healan's Spyware info:
http://www.spywareinfo.com
Spywareinfo Board:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/yabbse/ requires registration

http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~ehowes/main-nf.htm
A general Privacy & Security site that is a compilation of links to
third party applications and utilities - use these with caution - post
here if you are uncertain.

http://unwantedlinks.com/

Information about data mining:
http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/faculty...datamining.htm

Nice info regarding some known nasties and links to tools:
http://www.imilly.com/


the alt.privacy.spyware FAQ:
http://shplink.com/misc/FAQ.htm