spyware detection program?

Thanas · Post by **Thanas** » 2005-01-07 08:13pm

I have already got Adaware, but I'd like to get a second opinion.

What do you use?

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2005-01-07 08:15pm

Well on any 'doze computer I always use Spybot S&D.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2005-01-07 08:18pm

there's also cwshredder and hijack this. a google search should turn up either one with relative ease.

Xon · Post by **Xon** » 2005-01-07 11:22pm

"Mircrosoft's Antispyware" (yes thats its name! How inventive of them...) doesnt look to bad. But I would use more than 1 product.

JediToren · Post by **JediToren** » 2005-01-07 11:59pm

LavaSoft Ad-Aware
Spybot Search and Destroy
Spyware Blaster

Dead_Ghost · Post by **Dead_Ghost** » 2005-01-08 02:32am

I also use Spyware Doctor asides those JediToren posted.

andrewgpaul · Post by **andrewgpaul** » 2005-01-08 03:07am

I tried the MS one, and it picked up a couple of things Ad-Aware and Spybot missed.

Thanas · Post by **Thanas** » 2005-01-12 03:30pm

Thanks, guys. You've been very helpful.

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2005-01-12 06:47pm

andrewgpaul wrote:I tried the MS one, and it picked up a couple of things Ad-Aware and Spybot missed.

MS new anti spyware app generates a ton of False Possetives.

Don't trust it to much rite now.

Xon · Post by **Xon** » 2005-01-12 10:34pm

Faram wrote:
andrewgpaul wrote:I tried the MS one, and it picked up a couple of things Ad-Aware and Spybot missed.
MS new anti spyware app generates a ton of False Possetives.

Don't trust it to much rite now.

Most of those 'false positives', are all potential malware and/or parts of rootkits.

In a home user context with, you would not expect to find much legitimat use for multi-thousand dollars of/highly complex remote administration software on a single user machine run by Joe sixpack who only uses this computer to look at 'free' adult content.

That is the type of audience this product is aimed at cleaning up after.

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2005-01-13 02:35am

ggs wrote:
Faram wrote:
andrewgpaul wrote:I tried the MS one, and it picked up a couple of things Ad-Aware and Spybot missed.
MS new anti spyware app generates a ton of False Possetives.

Don't trust it to much rite now.
Most of those 'false positives', are all potential malware and/or parts of rootkits.

In a home user context with, you would not expect to find much legitimat use for multi-thousand dollars of/highly complex remote administration software on a single user machine run by Joe sixpack who only uses this computer to look at 'free' adult content.

That is the type of audience this product is aimed at cleaning up after.

Perhaps, I still think that giving a FP on some sites in the restricted zones and giving a warning about WinPcap is bad.

Granted anyone that knows how to use WinPcap probebly knows enuff not to remove it if they have installed it.

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2005-01-14 02:50am

You know, you could also read the FAQ sticky.....