SpywareGuard Threat sites??

[PopRivet]

I've been meaning to download SpywareGuard for some
time and finally remembered it tonight. Not knowing
exactly where it was located, I used Google to look for
a d/l site.
Of the first THREE sites I tried, one I'm pretty
sure was download.com, I got a Spy warning that I was
trying to d/l from "Avenue A" which was a known threat,
did I want to continue? Obviously I didn't, so rather
than click anything, I just hit CTRL-F4 and checked for
more links. I finally found it at ituned.com, I think
it was, and downloaded it - looks like a good download,
no virus, no spyware. So far & near's I can tell.

Can anyone tell me what's up with that crap? I
followed up and Avenue A, whatever it is, IS in fact a
known threat, but the name only came visible after I
tried to start a donwload. So apparently these were
all redirects where I got that known threat message.

In guessing, I also tried a "spyware guard" search too;
that's simply local stuff on a local machine, not
spyware in the sense that I mean it, and cost $50, so
it was easy to pass on at least.

Curious crap there for the top hits at Google for
spywareguard.

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[Richard Urban]

Why didn't you download the latest version from the people who wrote it. I
found this link through Google
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareguard.html

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Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

 

[Guest]

To stop crap like Avenue A you should also install SpywareBlaster. It's free. http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
Have fun. {:~)

 

[PopRivet]

....
Because I didn't KNOW they wrote it, you crusty old
B@stard! I cannot recall EVER seeing who wrote it in
ANY discussions and until I downloaded it finally,
still didn't know. I was going on recommendations and
decided finally to trial it to see if it was any good.

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[PopRivet]

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

Done already. In fact, I -think- that's where I got
the first hint about SWG and that it might be useful.
Thanks for the comeback. There are so danged many of
this stuff out there it's hard to keep track of who's
who and who's not.

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[Richard Urban]

Funny! I just searched Google on SpyWearGuard and came up with this on the
first page. I bypassed the first few "looking" for the people who wrote it.
Until I found their link, I didn't know who wrote it either!

Always better to get it from the horses mouth as too many others add their
own code to others work!

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Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard