Possible spyware

[Paul]

"Vanguard" <no-email@post-reply-in-newsgroup.nix> wrote in message news:<1w%pb.78068$mZ5.527843@attbi_s54>...
> Paul wrote:
> > I have a program that gives me a list of possible spyware on my
> > computer. Some are obvious from the name, like gator, but others are
> > not. Is there a web site I can go to that might help distinguish which
> > ones are spyware. Some are programs and some are registry keys.
>
> Sounds like your "program" is so untrustworthy that you don't even want
> to mention it. What good is your unnamed program that lists suspected
> spyware programs if you don't believe their list is correct? Use
> Ad-Aware and/or SpyBot.

I have used ad-aware but it doesnt remove it completely. The program I
didnt mention was because it wasn't a spyware program, just a start up
manager that shows all programs and registry keys loaded for different
users at startup. Some I recognised as spyware ie. gator, others I
recognised as programs or services I used. Others I didnt recognise so
I wanted to check if these were the few programs/registry keys that
were spyware and adware. As it happens said "untrustworthy program"
was startup control center.

[data64]

> I have used ad-aware but it doesnt remove it completely. The program I
> didnt mention was because it wasn't a spyware program, just a start up
> manager that shows all programs and registry keys loaded for different
> users at startup. Some I recognised as spyware ie. gator, others I
> recognised as programs or services I used. Others I didnt recognise so
> I wanted to check if these were the few programs/registry keys that
> were spyware and adware. As it happens said "untrustworthy program"
> was startup control center.
>

These are the ones I refer to:

http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup...tartup_all.php
http://www.answersthatwork.com/Taskl...s/tasklist.htm
http://www.3feetunder.com/krick/startup/list.html

data64