Thanks for all your reply's. It is mostly spyware/malware and something
called MRU that I'm talking about here and I think it all comes from my
daughter downloading MP3 music from, iTunes and LimeWire online? I am also
wondering what the Hacker bit of info on my computer is? How can I find the
Hacker it if all my antivirus software is not finding it?
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"<<Scottie>>" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> In a week or two I will have to decide on buying a new AntiVirus product
> or renewing my McAffe 2004 AntiVirus Security Centre again? The trouble
> is, I am not 100% sure that McAffe is keeping my computer tip-top and free
> of spyware? I used the free scan offered by Panda and it stated that I had
> and one (1) hacker and nine (9) spyware bits installed on my computer
> sending information to someone. I scan two or three times a day using
> McAffe, Ad-Aware SE Personal, Microsoft AntiSpyWare and SpyBot, removing
> all the spyware and viruses. How can Panda find this when the others
> don't? I have noticed that my computer does slow down some times, but I
> put it down to NTL cable broadband and I.E.. I am using XP. Any idea what
> I should buy? Thank you for any advice.
>

Per <<Scottie>>:
>Any idea what I should buy?

Devil's Advocate/Strawman/Trial balloon from somebody who knows next to nothing:
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Why buy? Why not a freebie like Avast! whose detection can't be all that bad
since the freebie seems tb a single-user version of their commercial
business-oriented product?
--
PeteCresswell

<<Scottie>> wrote:

> one (1) hacker and nine (9) spyware bits installed on my computer sending
> information to someone. I scan two or three times a day using McAffe,
> Ad-Aware SE Personal, Microsoft AntiSpyWare and SpyBot, removing all the
> spyware and viruses. How can Panda find this when the others don't?

Are you sure the "spyware and viruses" are not simply normal cookies?
You want to get rid of them before scanning.

According to the spyware Ad-Aware, etc, it's spyware?
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"Offbreed" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> <<Scottie>> wrote:
>
>> one (1) hacker and nine (9) spyware bits installed on my computer sending
>> information to someone. I scan two or three times a day using McAffe,
>> Ad-Aware SE Personal, Microsoft AntiSpyWare and SpyBot, removing all the
>> spyware and viruses. How can Panda find this when the others don't?
>
> Are you sure the "spyware and viruses" are not simply normal cookies? You
> want to get rid of them before scanning.

According to the spyware Ad-Aware, etc, it's spyware?
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"Offbreed" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> <<Scottie>> wrote:
>
>> one (1) hacker and nine (9) spyware bits installed on my computer sending
>> information to someone. I scan two or three times a day using McAffe,
>> Ad-Aware SE Personal, Microsoft AntiSpyWare and SpyBot, removing all the
>> spyware and viruses. How can Panda find this when the others don't?
>
> Are you sure the "spyware and viruses" are not simply normal cookies? You
> want to get rid of them before scanning.

<<Scottie>> wrote:
> According to the spyware Ad-Aware, etc, it's spyware?

Could be. I have not used Ad-Aware for some time so I'm not up on what
they are calling what these days. You want to make sure about the
specific word as well. Is it "spyware", or something else that you are
translating into "spyware", thinking it means the same?

I remember that Ad-Aware did alert to the presence of tracking cookies,
making computers look riddled with malware. Then I started deleting the
cookies and only the serious problems would show up. Did my nerves a
world of good, that did.

BTW, you will probably want to identify and protect certain cookies.

"optikl" <optik-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
> > <<Scottie>> wrote:
> >
> >> I scan two or three times a day using McAffe, Ad-Aware SE Personal,
> >> Microsoft AntiSpyWare and SpyBot, removing all the spyware and
> >> viruses.
> >
> > I am more curious about that one statement than anything else you
said.
> > If in fact you really do use those products three times daily and
they
> > find spyware/viruses each time (?), then there is no use
recommending a
> > new a-v program.
> >
> > You need to change your habits.
> >
>
> That, or donate his computer to a school or a church.

Disinfect it 1st to get rid of all of the prurient material....

Chas.

"<<Scottie>>" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Thanks for all your reply's. It is mostly spyware/malware and
something
> called MRU that I'm talking about here and I think it all comes from
my
> daughter downloading MP3 music from, iTunes and LimeWire online? I am
also
> wondering what the Hacker bit of info on my computer is? How can I
find the
> Hacker it if all my antivirus software is not finding it?
<Snip>

MRU means Most Recently Used. Windows store lists of MRU files, web
sites etc. in the Registry. They are generally innocuous and removing
them is like erasing your foot prints as to were you've visited and what
you've done.

On the Ad-Aware second tab, "Preparing System Scan" there is a little
green button with a check mark "Search for negligible risk entries".
Uncheck this button and you wont get the MRU results.

You are also probably getting a lot of Tracking Cookies. It's safe to
remove them.

Chas.