purchasing software

[Guest]

i am thinking of purchasing spyware eliminator and registry medic. does
anyone know anything good or bad about these programs. i am familiar with
spybot and adaware but these do not show all the errors. would appreciate
your input. van

 

[Wesley Vogel]

I know nothing about registry medic.

Save your money. Do *not* purchase Aluria Spyware Eliminator.

[[Aluria Software has partnered with the WhenU adware company as well as
giving WhenU a "spyware free" certification.]]
[[In light of this new relationship between these two companies, I can no
longer recommend Aluria Spyware Eliminator to my readers. ]]
http://www.spywareinfo.com/articles/aluria/delisted.php

Visit these sites. 1, 2, 3 and 4 are really good.
Download, install, run, update and run again; one or all. They are all
good, FREE utilities. Make sure you update every program, even if you
just downloaded it. You must have the latest updates. Without updates,
you have a gun without ammo. You also need to use more than one
anti scumware program. One program will *not* catch everything.

1) CWShredder ver. 1.59 direct download:
http://www.merijn.org/files/cwshredder.zip

1a) CWShredder ver. 2.0 direct download:
http://www.aumha.org/downloads/cwshredder.zip

2) SpywareBlaster
[[SpywareBlaster doesn't scan and clean for spyware - it prevents it from
ever being installed.
The most important step you can take is to secure your system. And
SpywareBlaster is the most powerful protection program available.]]
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

3) Spybot S & D (More for the advanced user)
http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?lang=en&page=download

4) HijackThis (More for the advanced user)
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html

4a) HijackThis (direct download)
http://aumha.org/downloads/hijackthis.zip

5) Bazooka Adware and Spyware Scanner v1.13
http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/index.html?source=appvisit

6) ToolbarCop
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/toolbarcop.htm

7) Ad-aware SE Personal
http://www.lavasoft.de/support/download/

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HijackThis log tutorial
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/htlogtutorial.html

HijackThis Log Tutorial
http://www.aumha.org/a/hjttutor.htm

How to use HijackThis to remove Browser Hijackers & Spyware
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/index.php?showtutorial=42#warning

How To Install Spybot Search and Destroy & a brief tutorial
http://tomcoyote.com/SPYBOT/index1.php

HOW TO: Reconfigure Ad-aware for a Full Scan
http://forum.aumha.org/viewtopic.php?t=5877

 

[Guest]

thanks for these sites. i have adaware se and spybot installed. i can run
adawre but if i try to run spybot my computer freezes in the "clean" phase.
van

I know nothing about registry medic.

Save your money. Do *not* purchase Aluria Spyware Eliminator.

[[Aluria Software has partnered with the WhenU adware company as well as
giving WhenU a "spyware free" certification.]]
[[In light of this new relationship between these two companies, I can no
longer recommend Aluria Spyware Eliminator to my readers. ]]
http://www.spywareinfo.com/articles/aluria/delisted.php

Visit these sites. 1, 2, 3 and 4 are really good.
Download, install, run, update and run again; one or all. They are all
good, FREE utilities. Make sure you update every program, even if you
just downloaded it. You must have the latest updates. Without updates,
you have a gun without ammo. You also need to use more than one
anti scumware program. One program will *not* catch everything.

1) CWShredder ver. 1.59 direct download:
http://www.merijn.org/files/cwshredder.zip

1a) CWShredder ver. 2.0 direct download:
http://www.aumha.org/downloads/cwshredder.zip

2) SpywareBlaster
[[SpywareBlaster doesn't scan and clean for spyware - it prevents it from
ever being installed.
The most important step you can take is to secure your system. And
SpywareBlaster is the most powerful protection program available.]]
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

3) Spybot S & D (More for the advanced user)
http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?lang=en&page=download

4) HijackThis (More for the advanced user)
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html

4a) HijackThis (direct download)
http://aumha.org/downloads/hijackthis.zip

5) Bazooka Adware and Spyware Scanner v1.13
http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/index.html?source=appvisit

6) ToolbarCop
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/toolbarcop.htm

7) Ad-aware SE Personal
http://www.lavasoft.de/support/download/

=====

HijackThis log tutorial
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/htlogtutorial.html

HijackThis Log Tutorial
http://www.aumha.org/a/hjttutor.htm

How to use HijackThis to remove Browser Hijackers & Spyware
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/index.php?showtutorial=42#warning

How To Install Spybot Search and Destroy & a brief tutorial
http://tomcoyote.com/SPYBOT/index1.php

HOW TO: Reconfigure Ad-aware for a Full Scan
http://forum.aumha.org/viewtopic.php?t=5877

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Hope this helps. Let us know.
Wes

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i am thinking of purchasing spyware eliminator and registry medic.
does anyone know anything good or bad about these programs. i am
familiar with spybot and adaware but these do not show all the
errors. would appreciate your input. van

 

[Shenan Stanley]

thanks for these sites. i have adaware se and spybot installed. i can
run adawre but if i try to run spybot my computer freezes in the
"clean" phase. van

Spybot Search and Destroy 1.31TX?

Lavasoft AdAware (Free and up)
http://www.lavasoft.de/support/download/
(How-to: http://snipurl.com/atdn )

Spybot Search and Destroy (Free!)
http://www.safer-networking.net/en/download/index.html
(How-to: http://snipurl.com/atdk )

Bazooka Adware and Spyware Scanner (Free!)
http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/
(How-to: http://snipurl.com/ate3 )

SpywareBlaster (Free!)
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/sbdownload.html
(How-to: http://snipurl.com/ate6 )

IE-SPYAD (Free!)
https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/ehowes/www/resource.htm
(How-to: http://snipurl.com/ate7 )

CWShredder (Free!)
http://www.softbasket.com/download/s_8114.shtml

Hijack This! (Free)
http://mjc1.com/mirror/hjt/
( Tutorial: http://hjt.wizardsofwebsites.com/ )

ToolbarCop (Free!)
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/toolbarcop.htm

Browser Security Tests
http://www.jasons-toolbox.com/BrowserSecurity/

Popup Tester
http://www.popuptest.com/

The Cleaner (49.95 and up)
http://www.moosoft.com/

 

[Les Herrman]

i am thinking of purchasing spyware eliminator and registry medic. does
anyone know anything good or bad about these programs. i am familiar with
spybot and adaware but these do not show all the errors. would appreciate
your input. van

Don't waste your money on either one of them. Neither one is worth
what they are asking for them.

 

[Clark Griswold]

i am thinking of purchasing spyware eliminator and registry medic. does
anyone know anything good or bad about these programs. i am familiar with
spybot and adaware but these do not show all the errors. would appreciate
your input. van

Anything that tries to clean the registry is going to cause problems. My
experience, friends, and I am sure a lot of people in this ng will agree.

 

[Guest]

thanks very much. i am going to visit these sites and i will be careful.

 

[Yves Leclerc]

If you are looking to purchase spyware elimination software, the two that
seem to be highly recommended are:

Webroot Spy Sweeper

AND

CA PestPatrol.

I would be cautious about any others since I have seen some that deliver
adware and they will not scan for their partner's "junk" software.

 

[Ken Blake]

In

i am thinking of purchasing spyware eliminator and registry
medic. does
anyone know anything good or bad about these programs. i am
familiar
with spybot and adaware but these do not show all the errors.
would
appreciate your input. van

No single anti-spyware program even comes close to catching all
the spyware out there. For that reason, you should run several. I
don't recommend either of those you ask about, but do recommend a
combination of Spyware Blaster, Adaware, and Spybot Search and
Destroy.