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What is the best adware and spyware removal program?

 
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 1:59 pm    Post subject: What is the best adware and spyware removal program? Reply with quote

What is the best adware and spyware removal program?
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 5:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Theres not really any best ones since I manually remove viruses/spyware but a few good ones are Ad-Aware, Spybot Search & Destroy and something called Hi-Jack this (wouldnt use it unless you know what to delete).
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 10:32 pm    Post subject: Re: What is the best adware and spyware removal program? Reply with quote

pat666rick wrote:
What is the best adware and spyware removal program?


Linux. Wink
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 10:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Heres some advice from our great father. Ad-Aware and Spybot are the best overall for newbie computers users.[ Spybot got ranked one of the best tech products in the world by PCWorld magazine along with Netscape, The Oringinal Non-AOL Crapware that Netscape is now.]
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 11:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Regedit, Windows Explorer, Command Prompt, some Sysinternals utilities and a bit of knowledge. That's all I use to remove spywares and viruses.

Though, if you like something more "famous", I recommend Ad-Aware.


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PostPosted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 11:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Stay away from Ad-aware its garbage, the best is Spybot SD, and its free
heres the url http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 12:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

spudnik wrote:
Stay away from Ad-aware its garbage, the best is Spybot SD, and its free
heres the url http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html



The Old Adware[ Ad-Aware SE] is pretty good with Adware. I however wouldn`t even touch Ad-Aware 2007. For a free program Ad-Aware SE is pretty good.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 1:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ad-aware I've always found to be pretty useless. I swear by Xoftspy.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 4:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

tomadao wrote:
Regedit, Windows Explorer, Command Prompt, some Sysinternals utilities and a bit of knowledge. That's all I use to remove spywares and viruses.

Though, if you like something more "famous", I recommend Ad-Aware.


Agreed Razz
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 10:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

AVG, easily.
The Free Version is very, very good.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 2:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

tomadao wrote:
Regedit, Windows Explorer, Command Prompt, some Sysinternals utilities and a bit of knowledge. That's all I use to remove spywares and viruses.


Beyond those, sometimes I use WinHex to dissecate and extract strings from suspect binaries, too.

A GOOD virus remover doesn't need any antivirus, antispyware, antitrojan, antiadware, anti-so-and-so, anti-fuc***so... Just knowledge and the tools I mentioned.
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