"Duane" <NoSpam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:KKSzj.11629$Mw.10352@nlpi068.nbdc.sbc.com...
> You make some good points. I also found SuperAntispyware
> cleaned some problems out very well of others pc's I've used it
> on.

I have used it on six computers so far and it cleaned them up
pretty well. I ran Spybot afterwards, which found about a half
dozen to a dozen things that SuperAntispyware didn't find, but
I used to get pretty much the same results when I ran Ad-Aware
before Spybot.


> Have you ever had problems where Spybot locks up the pc while
> scanning? Spybot S&D just locked up my pc that required a hard
> boot. It stopped scanning and everything froze, the display froze
> and nothing from the mouse or keyboard. The cap lock, scroll
> lock and num lock wouldn't change...

Not with the newest version, but I have only been using 1.5.2 for
a little over a month. I used to run into that occasionally with 1.4
and I'm pretty sure it was due to either a spyware or a virus that
was locking it up. Then I would run a virus scan, and try another
spyware scanner, and once they removed whatever they found I
was able to run Spybot again.

I know there are some viruses or spyware that can shut down
or lockup the McAfee virus scanner, which is what we use on
our computers at work, and I've heard there are ones that can
do the same thing to Spybot and Ad-Aware as they are two
popular spyware scanners.


> The pc I was scanning was clean and normally runs very well.

Are you sure it is clean? All it takes is that one virus or spyware
that locks up Spybot.


> Let me know if you've had any lockup problems when scanning
> with Spybot S&D 1.5.2.

None so far, just those few with the earlier version. However, I
have only been able to use Spybot 1.5.2 on six computers since
I started using it. A few years ago we had serious problems with
spyware infesting computers on our network and my co-workers
and I had to clean up at least a dozen, or more, a week.

Eventually the network administrators installed spyware blocking
software on our network servers, which does a pretty good job
of blocking the majority of it. These days I rarely get a spyware
infected computer, that is plugged into the network, since they
access the internet through the network servers with the spyware
blocking software.

About the only ones I get with a spyware problem are the laptops
that use wireless cards to access the network through the internet
rather then a network cable plugged into the computer. Since they
access the internet first, then our network, anything they do on the
internet is not blocked by the spyware blocking software that is on
our network servers.