Good Spyware removal link?

[PalmerWMD]

I am using Spybot and its not catching some Spyware.Any other good "'Bots" out there?

Fred..

[Anand]

ad aware

[PalmerWMD]

Wow that was quick.Can you link me?

Fred..

[Rex]

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/

[AZhitman]

Fred - To clean up your PC, go to http://www.pcworld.com and spend a few hours perusing ALL their available utilities.

And lay off the BMP.

[C-Kwik]

http://www.spybot.info/

A friend installed this one on mine. It found a bunch when I scanned the hard drive and it actively keeps new ones from being installed. Though, you do have to update occassionally and scan the hard drive again in case a new one makes it past the program...

[Rex]

Fred - To clean up your PC, go to http://www.pcworld.com and spend a few hours perusing ALL their available utilities.

And lay off the BMP.

LOL BMP, but wouldn't that somehow be BuffyMP?

[AZhitman]

Nope.

[xns]

AZ you need to go to merijn.org and download the cwshredder along with getting adaware. Those two combined, are your best bet. My computer runs zero ads, zero spybots, and zero viruses, and I run zero anit virus or security systems. I am a living testament to the fact that if you are just careful, you'll never get any problems. Download those two and run them, you should be good from that point on. linkage: http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/

[Dattebayo]

i found 101 problems in my system... wow.

[BuudWeizErr]

MAKE SURE YOU KEEP IT UPDATED OR ELSE ITS WORTHLESS.

Heres what I do.get avg antivirus: http://www.grisoft.comget adaware: http://www.lavasoft.nuget firefox: http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/UPDATE WINDOWS: http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com

that'll help out immensly.

firefox is better than IE in a million ways, but if you must keep IE, http://www.google.com and get the google toolbar.

[lessthanjakejohn]

To add to what ryan said, if you have to keep IE, make sure you find out what options you should enable or disable to improve security. If you can, firefox is much better though. (plus optional ad blocking, etc.)

If you want Adaware 6 Pro, send me a PM, errh email.

I run no adaware programs, no antivirus, no security programs though.

[Checkered-Member]

I use:

Ad-ware 6.0 (as a primary scanner)Spybot (as a secondary scanner) Ad-Watch 3.0 (primary prevention of spy ware)Spyware blaster (secondary prevention of spy ware)Hijack-This (for small files and unauthorized changes to operating system)

[AZhitman]

Nick - Can we consolidate this info into a "protect your PC" article?

[dr!ft]

:withstup I could really use this. About ten minutes ago, I ran Ad-Aware and it found a whopping 563 thingamajigs on my computer. I better start using protection... (Heh, protection... heh)