| Best Continueous Spyware Protection It's gotten to the point where spyware / malware are worse than some computer viruses. Given this, what are the best continuous spyware protection, ie what Norton Auto-Protect is for virus protection. This needs to be simple enough for the common computer user to be able to use and update. This spyware crap is getting out of hand, I want continuous protection, as well as the best spyware removal tools.
Thanks in advance
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 dadkinsCan you do Blu?Premium,MVM
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1 edit | SpywareBlaster and SpywareGuard are two programs that will protect your system pretty well. You can find them both here...
»www.javacoolsoftware.com/products.html
AdAware is a very good spyware scanner/remover...
»www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/
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| Thank you for your help. I have always used Ad-aware, but I need something that provides continueous protection to prevent the ads from ever being loaded.
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dadkinsCan you do Blu?Premium,MVM
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kudos:18 | SpywareBlaster and SpywareGuard do just what you are looking for, prevent most of this crud from getting in/on your computer.  |
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 gkweb
join:2003-06-09
76800 | reply to TheHondaMan
The combo : FireFox + sandboxe is a good one too.
Personally I like Process Guard to prevent any new threat to execute, and an alternate browser to simply avoid many spyware infection.
These pro-active solutions are better than re-active solutions IMO.
Of course, then you can add the anti-spyware softwares given in this thread to increase more your security.
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Alright thanks a lot. Now I need a solution for the average computer user...Now think primitave here...One that clicks yes to everything, has no idea what they are doing other than to open up AIM and IE. I need a dumbed down solution that is the most effective.
Is the Ad-watch from Ad-Aware6 any good?
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dadkinsCan you do Blu?Premium,MVM
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kudos:18 | I use the free version of AdAware, Ad-Watch is not included with it. The two Javacool softwares are pretty much set and forget, aside from the occasional updates.
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IMO Ad-watch is very good at protecting your machine
See here
»www.lavasoftsupport.com/index.ph···pic=6639 |
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said by TheHondaMan:
This spyware crap is getting out of hand, I want continuous protection
Best option is to stop using IE and never, ever, run any files that you are not absolutely sure are safe to be run. Thats the best protection against spyware you can get.
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»www.webroot.com is the only way to go then if you want great protection and removal capabilities...of spyware, results that can be shown to you and effective removal as well of the spyware...check it out...
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said by normmork:
IMO Ad-watch is very good at protecting your machine
See here
»www.lavasoftsupport.com/index.ph···pic=6639
Actually, I find Ad-Watch to be garbage. I just went to a bunch of warez and serialz sites to test out its strength, and clicked yes to all the popups and security install warnings. Although Ad-Watch did recognize the processes, I told it to block all of them. They still installed themselves, and now I have to remove the spyware manually. Not good.
Again, I am talking about very common computer users here, not DSLR/BBR users. They click yes to every security warning, refuse to use anything else than IE6, and they simply don't know what is safe to run and what is not. Again, I need serious protection that works in the background, preforably doesn't even have to give a warning to the harmful processes, just disables them.
Any ideas???
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Ventnor City, NJ | reply to awolfpup
Another vote for Webroot Spysweeper I like so much I bought a two year subscription.  |
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said by TheHondaMan:
Again, I am talking about very common computer users here, not DSLR/BBR users. They click yes to every security warning, refuse to use anything else than IE6, and they simply don't know what is safe to run and what is not. Again, I need serious protection that works in the background, preforably doesn't even have to give a warning to the harmful processes, just disables them.
Any ideas???
That would be pretty much what SpywareBlaster does except, even better, you don't have to keep it running in the background for it to protect.
All they'd need to do is install SpywareBlaster, and the tutorial guides them through the few steps needed to get up and running with protection (Check for Updates, and then Enable All Protection - both links under the "Quick Tasks" section on the main screen).
And, as you mentioned, SpywareBlaster just protects - it doesn't give a "Yes/No" warning, it just blocks the bad guys from installing.
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 catseyenuAck PfftPremium
join:2001-11-17
Fix East | reply to TheHondaMan
Let's see, you want simple and effective?
»Re: not a poll, but which anti-trojan is used at DSLR?
said by Name Game:
It has come to my attention the other day that BOClean also covers Cool web search infections.
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That said I spend a lot of time in many forums around the Internet and pay particular attention to it members who have a need to post hijack this logs whether they have malware,trojan, virus or worm infections and what AV or AT programs they do have on their system in the first place.
For some reason I have not found any where people are running BoClean. I am still looking
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IGGYNo Guru Just Here To HelpPremium,MVM
join:2001-03-30
Chatham, IL | reply to TheHondaMan
If the user is using XP. Try to get them updated to the new SP2 coming out. Or get the release candidate 2 installed on there machine. Then in my opinion. Set there machine up using Kaspersky 5.0 with extended databases. As long as this is set to auto update. They should in fact be protected from such nasty "infecting" there machine in the future. Simple and to the point. Easy to setup solution.
»www.kaspersky.com/extraavupdates···46235718
The whole security by obscurity thing. Is only going to work for so long. That length of time I have a feeling will be less than it's supports think. Just an opinion.
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I do have a question, if you already had your mind made up then why ask the question about AD-WATCH |
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