I use "Ad-Aware SE personal" It was downloaded for free. It does a great job catching the spyware, but its not keeping it away. I scan everyday..in fact probably more than 5 times a day, and it comes up with about 20 critical items. What is a good program to get rid of this crap? thanks - nathan
Read this link and follow these directions to permanently remove malware/spyware http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=35407
Tracking cookies in Ad-Aware are listed as critical items and in fact are not really spy ware. Real Spy Ware sets itself up in your windows registry. If every time you ran Ad Aware and it found registry issues then you really do have a problem . If it is just tracking cookies donât worry about it .
Seems you are very tech savy ? . I actually had Ubuntu linux on my laptop, but had problems with drivers after geek squad failed to set up wireless internet. I still got charged the 100.00 .
What does this stuff do? I dont use any antispyware, anitvirus, or any other software for this purpose. I use a router w/firewall but thats all. I guess my computer is loaded with these things but I dont have any problems and dont notice any thing out of the ordinary and Ive been doing nothing for a couple of years. What exactly do they spy on?
They just grab all of your passwords and dial 1-900 numbers and log your key strokes, nothing much! Run both of these FREE programs and get ride of most of it. http://www.lavasoft.de/ http://www.safer-networking.org/
If you dont want the spyware to come back, try using Firefox. It will stop 99.9% of all the stuff from coming in to begin with. Ad-aware and Spybot are good, but these miss alot. Here is another free one that picks up alot as well. http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/ http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/