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Jack_Dawson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-04 11:33 AM
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Best SpyWare?
Is there a such thing as "free" spyware? Lots of free scans out there, but to clean you need to purchase. I'm poor. Anything free I need to know about?

Thx,
JD
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Reverend_Smitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-04 11:38 AM
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1. go to download.com
http://www.download.com and type in spyware remover and there should be a list of some free ones...spybot is pretty good and so is AdAware
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pinto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-04 11:39 AM
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2. check out Lavasoft.com
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boxster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-04 12:47 PM
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6. Actually, it's www.lavasoft.de
Lavasoft.com is a different company.
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Spider Jerusalem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-04 01:24 PM
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8. And also...
www.lavasoftusa.com
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wyldwolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-04 11:40 AM
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3. Adaware and Spybot Search & Destroy
Edited on Sat Mar-13-04 11:40 AM by wyldwolf
Better than the ones you pay for.
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Madrone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-04 11:57 AM
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5. I second (3rd?) AdAware and Spybot S&D.

If you computer is SO effed up that those 2 don't finish the job (like the really bad one I spent all day yesterday trying to clean up) add CWShredder and HiJack This into the mix.

Don't just willy-nilly go deleting everything HiJack This finds though - you post your results to the web and have someone tell you what to delete.

Anyway, those four products mentioned above, and massive Norton scans and Panda online Active scans for virus removal - saved the computer I was working on from having to be formatted. It was BAD.
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Wickerman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-04 11:53 AM
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4. and once you get your machine clean
download mozilla and use it instead of IE6.0. Talk about worry free surfing? and better options and features.
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boxster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-04 12:47 PM
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7. Get the free version of Ad-Aware.
http://www.lavasoft.de
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