 jabarnutLight Years AwayPremium,MVM
join:2005-01-22
Galaxy M31
kudos:2 | reply to gate1975mlm
Re: Ad-aware SE Personal Edition 1.05????? Coincidentally, I just received the April addition of PC World.
It has an article called "Spyware Stoppers".
I'm not saying this report is gospel, or that I agree with everything in it by any means, but some interesting reading on the topic none the less.
I personally still like and use Ad-Aware, regardless of the recent controversy.
I also use Spybot and my new favorite "Microsoft AntiSpyware". (Formally "Giant" as you know).
The general consensus, both in the article and here in the Forums, is that no one app gets everything, so an "arsenal" so to speak is the best defense.
Also interesting to note that Microsoft's Antispyware was not included in the chart because it is beta and just coming out as PC World was "completing testing".
HOWEVER, they really liked it claiming it "looks Like a Winner" and had detected "91% of the Adware/Spyware in their test suite".
It's a fairly long article, but some interesting reading none the less....again, I don't necessarily endorse their findings (nor do I disagree with them).
Simply posting it here for you "reading pleasure". 
»www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/···2,00.asp
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| said by jabarnut:Coincidentally, I just received the April addition of PC World. It has an article called "Spyware Stoppers". Thank you for posting the link!
I like this statement:
"We used HijackThis along with the Add or Remove Programs feature in Windows XP's Control Panel. We were surprised to find that nearly all of the 45 adware/spyware apps on our infected system had a corresponding uninstaller in Add or Remove Programs. (To use these uninstallers effectively requires that you know which programs they belong to; it's not always easy to tell.) By using the uninstallers and following up with HijackThis--which identified and deleted active components not removed by the uninstallers--we obtained our best score yet, killing off 100 percent of all active components of the adware and spyware infecting our machine. We obtained the same result when we followed a CounterSpy scan with HijackThis. No other combination gave us 100 percent--the WinTools processes that the other scanners left in place thwarted our cleanup efforts, and HijackThis was unable to stop the processes on its own."
I love Hijackthis. I think its the best little utility there is. I have not used Counterspy. I'll be checking it out soon. |
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jabarnutLight Years AwayPremium,MVM
join:2005-01-22
Galaxy M31
kudos:2 | said by christos: Thank you for posting the link! No problem christos
And I agree about HijackThis....I really like and use it too.
As the article states though, (and I'm sure many here already know), you want to be sure you know what you are doing before playing around with HijackThis.
Definitely an awesome tool to have though. 
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