Spyware again.

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Having tried the "free Spyware Firewall" posted a few days ago and not being
over impressed with it's capabilities checked to what else was available.

I found this one listed on Major Geeks and it is really free and has found
and removed 11 objects that Ewido and others left in place.

Not a recommendation but I am impressed. There is a Pro version for around
£20.00.

http://www.superantispyware.com/index.html

Jumbo
 
Having tried the "free Spyware Firewall" posted a few days ago and not
being over impressed with it's capabilities checked to what else was
available.

I found this one listed on Major Geeks and it is really free and has
found and removed 11 objects that Ewido and others left in place.

Not a recommendation but I am impressed. There is a Pro version for
around £20.00.

http://www.superantispyware.com/index.html

Jumbo
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Hi Jumbo!

Did you monitor its installation? There are stories known about "Anti-
Spyware" programs that did put a few things on the system, just to show
how 'good' they are.
 
Having tried the "free Spyware Firewall" posted a few days ago and not being
over impressed with it's capabilities checked to what else was available.

I found this one listed on Major Geeks and it is really free and has found
and removed 11 objects that Ewido and others left in place.

Not a recommendation but I am impressed. There is a Pro version for around
£20.00.

http://www.superantispyware.com/index.html

Jumbo
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Anyone tried this one yet?
 
In_Parentheses said:
Hi Jumbo!

Did you monitor its installation? There are stories known about "Anti-
Spyware" programs that did put a few things on the system, just to show
how 'good' they are.
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Hi Jay

Yes I did monitor the install but did not detect any funnies. The bad
objects found were all tracking cookies or bad web addresses.

Jumbo
 
Hi Jay

Yes I did monitor the install but did not detect any funnies. The bad
objects found were all tracking cookies or bad web addresses.

Jumbo
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Hi Jumbo,

Thanks for this additional information. Will have a go at this one, to see
what's it alike.

As for tracking cookies: They don't live long enough on this system to
track me, I use the Crap Cleaner program to kill those (and keep the ones I
want to keep, mostly forum cookies). Besides this one I regularly run
AdAware, Spybot, and Advanced Spyware Remover "Lite"; and of course
SpywareBlaster when it needs to be updated again!
 
Hi Jumbo,

Thanks for this additional information. Will have a go at this one, to
see what's it alike.

As for tracking cookies: They don't live long enough on this system to
track me, I use the Crap Cleaner program to kill those (and keep the
ones I want to keep, mostly forum cookies). Besides this one I
regularly run AdAware, Spybot, and Advanced Spyware Remover "Lite";
and of course SpywareBlaster when it needs to be updated again!
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Hi to all!

This program could be using the old Ewido Engine, it tags exactly the same
program, and it still is a false positive: It seems that remote
administration packages are very likely to be tagged by scanners like
this, possibly because of some 'worm-alike' coding in the program.

A difference with the old Ewido (I have dropped that program some time ago)
is that in this program you can tell the program to "Trust/Allow" the items
found.

Scanning: Fast on small files, extremely slow on larger files (but still <
4 MB); the program scans everything: Memory, Register and *ALL* files
(including .txt files), the memory footprint that I found was 6 MB.

Limitations: No real-time protection, no scheduled scans, no scheduled
update (but if this option is checked, the program attempts to update at
program start.

Although the program minimizes to the systray, no protection is added by
letting the program stay resident, as such this option is useless for the
free version!
 
Tried it here as well - looks promising to add to my arsenal,
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Hi POKO,

Yes it does look promising, but users of the program should be aware that
it may not be "fail-safe", and that a thorough knowledge of what is
running on a user's system still is necessary to determine whether a
program is falsely flagged as "threat"; following its advises blindly
could result in important programs being quarantained (least worse
scenario), or deleted (worst scenario)!
 
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