What's the best anti-spyware program out there?

[Tassilo]

So here's the ultimate naive question to ask this particular
audience: what's the best anti-spyware program out there, free or
otherwise?

-david gable

[siljaline]

"Tassilo" wrote:
> So here's the ultimate naive question to ask this particular
> audience: what's the best anti-spyware program out there, free or
> otherwise?

http://www.eset.com/products/compare...ompetition.php

Silj

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[Kayman]

On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 01:16:57 -0700 (PDT), Tassilo wrote:

> So here's the ultimate naive question to ask this particular
> audience: what's the best anti-spyware program out there, free or
> otherwise?

Anti-Spy applications - for non-viral malware.
The effectiveness of an individual A-S scanners can be wide-ranging and
oftentimes a collection of scanners is best. There isn't one software that
cleans and immunizes you against everything. That's why you need multiple
products to do the job i.e. overlap their coverage - one may catch what
another may miss, (grab'em all).

SuperAntispyware - Free (on-demand apps.)
http://www.superantispyware.com/supe...freevspro.html
--and--
Ad-Aware 2007 - Free (on-demand apps.)
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/products/ad_aware_free.php
http://www.download.com/3000-2144-10045910.html
--and--
Spybot Search & Destroy - Free (on-demand apps.)
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html
--and--
Windows Defender - Free, build-in in Vista - (real-time apps.)
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...e/default.mspx
WD monitors the start-registry and hooks registers/files to prevent spyware
and worms to install to the OS.
Interesting reading:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,136195/article.html
"...Windows Defender did excel in behavior-based protection, which detects
changes to key areas of the system without having to know anything about
the actual threat."

Some more useful applications:
SpywareBlaster - Free
SpywareBlaster is not a scanner.
It prevents the installation of ActiveX-based spyware, adware, browser
hijackers, dialers, and other potentially unwanted software.
Blocks spyware/tracking cookies in Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox.
Restricts the actions of potentially unwanted sites in Internet Explorer.
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

CW Shredder - Free
Is a premier tool to find and remove traces of CoolWebSearch ¡V the name for
a wide range of insidious browser hijackers ¡V from your PC.
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Interne...Shredder.shtml

WinPatrol
It helps keep your system tray free of clutter and warns you when a program
insists on loading at system boot-up.
http://www.winpatrol.com/

CCleaner - Free
Cleans temporary internet files, cookies, history, recent urls, application
MRUs, etc. ...
http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/
If Windows Defender is utilized go to Applications, under Utilities
uncheck "Windows Defender" (so it won't delete the history of WD)

[Gaz]

"siljaline" <siljaline@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:g8rbkr$5mk$1@aioe.org...
> "Tassilo" wrote:
>> So here's the ultimate naive question to ask this particular
>> audience: what's the best anti-spyware program out there, free or
>> otherwise?
>
> http://www.eset.com/products/compare...ompetition.php
>
> Silj
>
> --
> siljaline
>

nod32 is not capable of removing av2008

Gaz

[siljaline]

"Gaz" wrote:
> nod32 is not capable of removing av2008

Defs of today do...
http://www.eset.eu/podpora/aktualizacia-3385?lng=en

Silj

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because they almost always turn out to be -- or to be indistinguishable from
-- self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time."
- Neil Stephenson, _Cryptonomicon_

[Gaz]

"siljaline" <spam@uce.gov> wrote in message news:g8v46o$gke$1@aioe.org...
> "Gaz" wrote:
>> nod32 is not capable of removing av2008
>
> Defs of today do...
> http://www.eset.eu/podpora/aktualizacia-3385?lng=en
>
> Silj

Five weeks later, maybe they should ask the fantastic authors of
malwarebytes how come they could have a live system picking up the multiple
variants for free, while Nod32, considered one of the premier anti-virus
(and it claims to offer anti-spyware protection) products tells its paying
user that their system is 'protected' while half a dozen pieces of vundo
related spyware is crapping all over their system.

Not good enough, not good enough at all.

Gaz

[Max Wachtel]

In news:d331284a-82fb-46ba-81f0-9663653f25cb@k30g2000hse.googlegroups.com,
Tassilo <david7gable@aol.com> after much thought,came up with this jewel:
> So here's the ultimate naive question to ask this particular
> audience: what's the best anti-spyware program out there, free or
> otherwise?
>
> -david gable

The one between your ears.

max
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[Dustin Cook]

"Gaz" <gazter@msn.com> wrote in news:6hgrpiFlr7fhU1@mid.individual.net:

> "siljaline" <spam@uce.gov> wrote in message
> news:g8v46o$gke$1@aioe.org...
>> "Gaz" wrote:
>>> nod32 is not capable of removing av2008
>>
>> Defs of today do...
>> http://www.eset.eu/podpora/aktualizacia-3385?lng=en
>>
>> Silj
>
> Five weeks later, maybe they should ask the fantastic authors of
> malwarebytes how come they could have a live system picking up the
> multiple variants for free, while Nod32, considered one of the premier
> anti-virus (and it claims to offer anti-spyware protection) products
> tells its paying user that their system is 'protected' while half a
> dozen pieces of vundo related spyware is crapping all over their
> system.
>
> Not good enough, not good enough at all.
>
> Gaz
>
>

We (malwarebytes) have spent alot of time and dedicated specific routines
for the detection and removal of XPAntivirus. Their are several variants
of it; and it's something we specialize in being able to remove from a
system without causing harm.



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