Kudos to Spybot S & D !

[punkncat]

My "anti-virus/ firewall" (cough) huge (gasp)Z !

My weekly scan turned up a huge amount of adware than hadn't been there the week before....and in spite of the firewall being on managed to find its way in anyway. And couldn't be removed by the anti-virus.

Installed Spybot and knocked it + a bunch of other stuff the AV didn't find right out. Great program!

[fire1811]

yes spybot is great for removing spyware.

now install spyblaster to block all the icky bad stuff

[BobTheCow]

Also, try downloading and running AdAware. That and spybot work well with eachother, finding stuff that the other one missed, and vice versa.

[_tMAN]

He speaks the truth

Both programs will save your butt

[fire1811]

no do not install Adaware what you need is Ad-Aware they are two different programs and the one without the dash installs spyware

just use this link for ad-aware

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

[BobTheCow]

no do not install Adaware what you need is Ad-Aware they are two different programs and the one without the dash installs spyware

just use this link for ad-aware
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/

Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah, what he said, sorry about that... forgot about that. Good catch.

[MrWallen]

I used to run S&D and Ad-Aware, then I bought SpySweeper. Picked up everything the other two missed, plus it also acts like a firewall and blocks spyware specifically. I now run Norton 2k4, ZoneAlarm, and SpySweeper and any time I run Norton or Sweeper both turn up nothing!

[WickeDKlowN]

I run AVG 6.0, ZoneAlarm, PeerGuardian and Spybot S&D. All 4 are completley free and I havn't had a single problem for the past month or so(my last reformat).

[fire1811]

i am currently running norton internet security 2004, spybot, spyblaster, ad-aware all work together without any probs so far

[FragTek]

He speaks the truth

Both programs will save your butt

Amen to that... Spybot SD and AdAware is a match made in heaven, the true dynamic duo of spyware removal tools

I run Norton Systemworks for all the other garbage.

[pbzmag]

Amen to that... Spybot SD and AdAware is a match made in heaven, the true dynamic duo of spyware removal tools

I run Norton Systemworks for all the other garbage.

So true!!! Also try CWShredder and HijackThis!. They find other spyware that Spybot and Ad-Aware misses. I was able to fully delete some spyware on my sisters computer that Spybot and Ad-Aware couldn't find. I do caution using HijackThis! for the average user. It is not as friendly as CWShredder. It lists all programs that runs when IE opens. If you delete a needed file, you could more harm than the spyware.