Spies among us

[Toaster]

Does anyone here know of of good free spyware programs to get rid of spyware? I got a trogan horse last night and my current subcriptions to Norton and Webroot have expired, meaning that they haven't been able to detect the threat.

Help?

[jvrlopez]

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Spybot
Adaware
Bazooka Scanner (it'll tell you what you have, you have to remove it on your own).

[thetruecoolness]

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Spybot search and destroy
Ad Aware

and for anti virus
AVG

anti trojan
A squared

So just do a google search for these and you should be good to go

And for free online virus scan
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

[Patryn]

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Fun fact: Recent tests have shown that Norton is one of the worst anti-virus programs out there.

[jvrlopez]

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Norton and McAfee are HORRIBLE.

[Toaster]

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Thanks guys. I updated my Webroot Spysweeper and deleted Norton (I always thought it was crap) and am downloading everything that thetruecoolness recommended.

I should be good now.

[Jamos' Old Account]

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Norton and McAfee are HORRIBLE.

That explains alot... I have both of them. Son of a ****!

[Patryn]

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Beyond being giant system hogs, Norton and McAfee also have to deal with being the market leaders. What does that mean? It means that virus writers actually TEST THEIR NEW VIRUSES against Norton and McAfee to ensure that a.)they can't detect their virus and b.)they can't kill their virus.

[Toaster]

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Got rid of everything but that. This **** shows up everytime I open up Internet Explorer. And no, hotmail is set as my homepage so wtf.

[Red Dragon]

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I like Norton... It hasn't phailed me before...

[Crimson Knight]

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Yeah, McAffe's been pretty good to me, it detects some stuff spybot and other cleaners can't. Having an arsenal of computer cleaners is the best route to go though, get spybot and some other program.

Kind of sucks that computer security is never 100%.

[Caciss]

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McAffee messed up my internet connection, causing it to disconnect at random times.

[DarkwingChuck]

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I use CA antivirus and antispyware. I don't think it's very good though because I seem to have some weirdness going on that it's not detecting or fixing although it does occassionally pick up something. I also have their firewall in the package. On the default settings it blocks all animations and a lot of pictures which really ticked me off so I had to lower the security. And it's currently saying it's blocked over 86,000 intrusions but only 93 were potentially dangerous. So that seems kind of pointless. But I certainly don't want to trust the stupid built in Windows XP firewall.

[DK]

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SPICS AMONG US?!

Man the only thing I hate more than racists are spics!

[jvrlopez]

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McAffee messed up my internet connection, causing it to disconnect at random times.

Same here. No warning, no heads up, just click, bye bye. It sucks that I had to deal with it for a few months before noticing the problem.

I downloaded zonealarm as my firewall ever since then.

And yes, being that it is a big boy amongst the firewalls, its pretty obvious that most script writers target to go around it.