SPY SWEEPER

[Guest]

I had been using Spy Sweeper, but it looks as though it has gone "Full
Commercial" and now charges. It was a good program, but I know there are
many spyware freeware programs that should be availible.
Does anyone have a paticular program that is freeware, and is a good program?

 

[Max M.Wachtel III]

I had been using Spy Sweeper, but it looks as though it has gone "Full
Commercial" and now charges. It was a good program, but I know there are
many spyware freeware programs that should be availible.
Does anyone have a paticular program that is freeware, and is a good program?

See my site for info and links
-max

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[Shenan Stanley]

I had been using Spy Sweeper, but it looks as though it has gone "Full
Commercial" and now charges. It was a good program, but I know there
are many spyware freeware programs that should be availible.
Does anyone have a paticular program that is freeware, and is a good
program?

From the comments on others on this newsgroups, I have never recommended
this one - as it has had its fair share of bad comments to go with the
good - and not just frivilous ones.

Check here for rogue anti-spyware:
http://www.spywarewarrior.com/rogue_anti-spyware.htm

My recommended list:

Two side-notes: Never think one of these can do the whole job.
Try the first 5 before coming back and saying "That did not work!"
Also, you can always visit:
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm
For more updated information.

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

Lavasoft AdAware (Free and up)
http://www.lavasoft.de/support/download/

CWShredder (Free!)
** No longer updated as of July 29, 2004 - however, still a great
product and should still be ran **
http://www.softbasket.com/download/s_8114.shtml

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

SpywareBlaster (Free!)
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/sbdownload.html

IE-SPYAD (Free!)
https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/ehowes/www/resource.htm

ToolbarCop (Free!)
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/toolbarcop.htm

Bazooka Adware and Spyware Scanner (Free!)
http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/

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/

 

[Guest]

Hello Amber,

Here are the three most often recommended by contributors to these groups:

Ad-Aware SE
http://www.lavasoft.de/support/download/

Spybot Search and Destroy
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html

SpywareBlaster
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

Those plus CWShredder, the URL for which I can't seem to find but use Google
and you'll get there.

And they are all free.

HTH

Colin.

 

[Ron Martell]

I had been using Spy Sweeper, but it looks as though it has gone "Full
Commercial" and now charges. It was a good program, but I know there are
many spyware freeware programs that should be availible.
Does anyone have a paticular program that is freeware, and is a good program?

See MVP Jim Eshelman's Spyware pages at
http://www.aumha.org/a/parasite.htm for information on programs and
other spyware related topics.

Good luck


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

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