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Greeneyes  
since 2000-09-09
Posts 9903In Your Poetic Mind 
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I have tried House call, ad-ware, and I have an anti-spyware program installed but nothing is catching the spyware.....can any one suggest a good program that will clean this up? I do not want to have to reload...help..? ~~*~~ |
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Alicat Member Elite
since 1999-05-23
Posts 4094Coastal Texas |
Have you also tried Spybot S&D and Spysweeper? One thing I've found is that Adaware, Spybot and Spysweeper compliment each other, catching things the others miss and vice versa. I also use AVG from Grisoft. Free, daily updates, and is very good at catching things as well. I tend to go with freebies, although Spysweeper only has a 30 day trial, which should be more than long enough to get rid of a lot of nasties. One system I cleaned for a lady from my SO's work had over 800 hits on Spybot, 700 hits on Adaware, 300 hits on Spysweep, and AVG had none. I ran them in that order. |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
Alicat's da man to ask... <i>thanks again bro</i> (I'm still too chicken to run them myself, but I'm drinking up the courage)   |
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Local Rebel Member Ascendant
since 1999-12-21
Posts 5767Southern Abstentia |
in addition to spybot search and destroy also pick up spywareblaster -- it prevents spyware from getting anywhere near your PC... and enable the Teatimer option from spybot s&d -- it monitors any changes made to your registry and alerts you I will say though -- somebody out there has some bad voodoo -- a cat in atlanta that I can't quite nail down keeps scanport attacking me -- makes it through two firewalls to my final McAfee... which says it's catching him -- but can't trace him. (oh -- if you do use spyware blaster there will be some browser features that get turned off which can be annoying -- but not nearly as annoying as having your system hijacked) |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Spybot Search and Destroy has worked for me. Good luck! |
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Michelle_loves_Mike
since 2003-12-20
Posts 1189Pennsylvania |
Agreed Spybot S&D rocks,,,easy to use,,,,doesn't take all day, and seems to take care of alot of off the wall spyware....GL |
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Alicat Member Elite
since 1999-05-23
Posts 4094Coastal Texas |
I hear ya Reb. Back when we were using dialup, we used ZoneAlarm and had a right bugger of a time even then. ZA blocked just about all attempted access, including ShieldsUp, and I was able to use arin.net to find ISP's for notification. Never did understand why someone wanted to hijack a very slow system on a slow dialup connection (at best, we could get 33.6 due to poor phone lines). Still didn't help protect against malicious websites. Since we got cable, I made sure to get a router from Linksys with a built-in NAT packet sniffing firewall. Coupled with ZA, nothing gets through except things we welcome in, like malicious java code from websites...which AVG promptly quarantined. |
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Susan Caldwell Member Rara Avis
since 2002-12-27
Posts 8348Florida |
<font face="Comic Sans MS, Arial, Verdana" color="#000080" size="2">being what we are... it is my belief that we (advertisers in this case) will completely destroy the internet. We will not be able to go anywhere without being attacked so badly our computers will freeze every time. *heavy sigh* now, Karen, where is that cuervo you mentioned in the other thread? </font><!signature--> <font size="1" color="#000080">"too bad ignorance isn't painful" ~Unknown~</font> |
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Susan Caldwell Member Rara Avis
since 2002-12-27
Posts 8348Florida |
I seriously did not do that up there.... but it is a little creepy in an ironic sort of way... "too bad ignorance isn't painful" |
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Alicat Member Elite
since 1999-05-23
Posts 4094Coastal Texas |
Um...the Tech Talk forums do not interpret html and ubb, so that coding examples can be shown in their entirety instead of the affect. If you checked 'Show Signature', well, it's gonna look wonky, since the code is being shown, not the affect.  |
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Greeneyes
since 2000-09-09
Posts 9903In Your Poetic Mind |
 THANK YOU!!! .. that seemed to do the trick....lol I downloaded all of them.....I appreciate the help much...  ~~*~~ |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
*smile* He <b>is</b> good, I tell ya. He's not just another purty face--he's my tech support!  |
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