Spyware Killer?

[stewa070]

Hey Kids!

I'm back! Been gone a hell of a long time I know, but that's life these days. Anyway, where the hell can I get a good free spyware killer/blocker onilne?[/SIZE]

 

[lucasbuck]

Spybot and Adaware are the only free ones I know of. They both work pretty well.

 

[Brucifer]

I use Adaware & Spybot too.
ALso get Spy Sweeper - it found items the other two didn't.

 

[geldor1]

SpyBot

Ad-Aware

Spy Sweeper

 

[Rod]

I ran all three and still can't get rid of all the spyware...

 

[cigarsarge]

Try Bazooka. Scans and explains how to get spyware out of your registry. It's at Cnet.com.

 

[rnccen]

Just used that Spy Sweeper it found 10 spy programs and eliminated them

-P-

 

[SFG75]

I had two viruses and a worm on my system. Got so bad that a family friend had to download spyware-killing stuff from a disk. Never heard of Bazooka, but spybot works wonderfully.

 

[gregor22]

I've found adaware to be most effective. Virus killer that I use is from TrendMicro. Can try it for free.

 

[Kryo]

There is also another technique for blocking malicious content before it gets on your computer. There is a file in your System directory called the 'HOSTS' file. This can be used to hard-code DNS tables into a computer.

The trick is to re-direct known ad websites to the localhost. This way the ads do not load as they cannot be found.

Here are some links for more detailed information...

http://www.everythingisnt.com/hosts.html
http://jon.hedley.net/ad-blocking-hosts-file
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm

 

[BrownDevil]

If you're running win98 still run adaware and spybot in safemode and it will do the trick.
Robert

 

[Wascal]

I'v been running Spybot and thought I was doing well. Downloaded Spy Sweeper just a bit ago and ran it, found 91 spyware that Spybot missed. :0 Total of 91 spyware and 272 traces. Spybot missed just a few....