La Luna
Surviving Ashraful
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Re: is there spyware software worth bucking up for?
Unless you've been compromised in some way, which you didn't mention happening, why would you want to spend money? You say you're "disappointed"....disappointed why, because they don't find anything? Maybe there's nothing TO find?
Spybot doesn't make you "warm and fuzzy"? What does that mean? Windows Defender "seems useless"....well, if nothing is wrong....
Why would you want to "buck up" when what you have seems to be working fine?
Is the cash burning a hole in your pocket? 
If you aren't having any problems, I'd stick with what you doing.
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tmaertin
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1 edit | la luna,
i should have clarified my disappointment before. i had a couple of things slide by the protection i currently have (smitfraud c being one of them).
Superantispyware caught it in an on demand scan. i had run spybot, adaware and defender scans (the latter two as full system) and none of these caught this infection. luckily, i have BOClean running resident, which stopped smitfraud from running in memory. so thats why i am not all "warm and fuzzy".
on other machines i have fixed for people, i have run defender first and it has found nothing, while the others after it have found spyware traces. thats what is making me feel windows defender is "useless".
since i switched over to NOD32, i haven't seen anything in spyware scans except tracking cookies. i will admit that.
i guess my point is i just want to see if there is something better - and if it costs $$$ (and i did have some change burning a hole in my pocket, but i got a drink with it  ) i just want to spend wisely.
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La Luna
Surviving Ashraful
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| said by tmaertin  :la luna, i should have clarified my disappointment before. i had a couple of things slide by the protection i currently have (smitfraud c being one of them).... Ahhh, that explains it then.
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Just Bob
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Spring Hill, FL
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said by tmaertin :luckily, i have BOClean running resident, which stopped smitfraud from running in memory. so thats why i am not all "warm and fuzzy". When you have 2 programs performing the same function one of them will detect an intruder first leaving the other program with nothing to do.
Having said that, the highest level of heuristic detection in Windows Defender seems to only be available if you join SpyNet at the advanced level. Click Tools | Microsoft SpyNet and read the verbiage for the advanced setting. |
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