 SmitedoggUzbekikittyPremium
join:2000-11-11
Pueblo, CO | Use at least two? Doesn't this seem just a tad bit ridiculous? I'm not normally one to start OS flame wars, but how Windows users can just accept that as if it's normal is beyond me.
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AEKDB
join:2004-03-07
Towson, MD | Side question - is there any breakdown as to whether any combination of spyware programs remove all (or at least 90%) of spyware? There is a real problem if no combination of programs remove say 15% of spyware. |
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| Read the article. The author finds that by combining Giant (now MS anti-spyware) with Webroot Spy Sweeper created the best results, and even that only nabbed 70%. |
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 yockTFTCPremium
join:2000-11-21
Miamisburg, OH
kudos:3 | reply to Smitedogg
said by Smitedogg:Doesn't this seem just a tad bit ridiculous? I'm not normally one to start OS flame wars, but how Windows IE users can just accept that as if it's normal is beyond me. Dogg Just a small correction.
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yockTFTCPremium
join:2000-11-21
Miamisburg, OH
kudos:3 | reply to Karl Bode
said by Karl Bode:Read the article. The author finds that by combining Giant (now MS anti-spyware) with Webroot Spy Sweeper created the best results, and even that only nabbed 70%. I ran AdAware last night after probably a month of not using it. Since I switched to Firefox I only raise flags on cookies. No installed apps, period.
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 dddane
join:2002-01-10
Chicago, IL | not to rain on your anti-IE parade... but I use Internet Explorer exclusively, and I too only ever have 'bad' cookies on my computer.
its the user not the browser stupid! |
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said by yock: said by Karl Bode:Read the article. The author finds that by combining Giant (now MS anti-spyware) with Webroot Spy Sweeper created the best results, and even that only nabbed 70%. I ran AdAware last night after probably a month of not using it. Since I switched to Firefox I only raise flags on cookies. No installed apps, period. Same here since I just about ALWAYS use Opera, at least since version 5!!
Heck, even Slimbrowser and Kmeleon, which I've been playing with lately, have settings you can adjust that will prevent most spyware.
I do have and use Webroot Spysweeper, Adaware and Spybot along with Spywareblaster for IE, when I do use it, but for the life of me, I can't even remember the last time any of these programs found something other than cookies or MRU's.
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yockTFTCPremium
join:2000-11-21
Miamisburg, OH
kudos:3 | reply to dddane
said by dddane:not to rain on your anti-IE parade... but I use Internet Explorer exclusively, and I too only ever have 'bad' cookies on my computer. its the user not the browser stupid! What witch's brew of add-on software are you running? Do you only visit innocuous sites?
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