Dean_H
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Registered: 19th May 02
Location: Rhondda Cynon Taff
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the amount of stuff thats infected on my computer is amazing and i need to get rid of them!
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Drew
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Registered: 24th Nov 01
Location: County Durham
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format c: 
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willay
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Organiser: South East, National Events
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Registered: 10th Nov 02
Location: Roydon, Essex
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Adware
Spybot
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Ian
Site Administrator
Registered: 28th Aug 99
Location: Liverpool
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I use Adaware and Spybot and although they usually find a lot there are some things that they don't catch. Best thing if its very bad is to reinstall unfortunately.
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SetH
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Registered: 15th Jul 01
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quote:
Originally posted by Ian
I use Adaware and Spybot and although they usually find a lot there are some things that they don't catch. Best thing if its very bad is to reinstall unfortunately.
This is true, I had an infected pc at work. Used adaware & spybot as well as a few others that i cant remember the name off. Each one found different infections, but even after using them all still could not get rid.
[Edited on 07-11-2004 by SetH]
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modification
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Registered: 27th Dec 02
Location: Greater Manchester
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got somethin free off yahoo and thats not bad!
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willay
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Organiser: South East, National Events
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Registered: 10th Nov 02
Location: Roydon, Essex
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quote:
Originally posted by SetH
quote:
Originally posted by Ian
I use Adaware and Spybot and although they usually find a lot there are some things that they don't catch. Best thing if its very bad is to reinstall unfortunately.
This is true, I had an infected pc at work. Used adaware & spybot as well as a few others that i cant remember the name off. Each one found different infections, but even after using them all still could not get rid.
[Edited on 07-11-2004 by SetH]
Theres alot to it then just running the two programs, not sure if you are aware but Spybot has a 'advance' mode which gives you useful options such as looking at the registry startup list, this is where some spyware can reinstall itself apon reboot.
Just using this option has fixed alot of computers that have entered my path, also just looking for processes that shouldnt be running in the process list also helps, if you arent sure of the process just google it, nine times out of ten if its spyware it will be flagged up somewhere on google results
Sadly when things are too bad we have to fall back to Drew's good old fashion format c. 
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Dean_H
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Registered: 19th May 02
Location: Rhondda Cynon Taff
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quote:
Originally posted by SetH
quote:
Originally posted by Ian
I use Adaware and Spybot and although they usually find a lot there are some things that they don't catch. Best thing if its very bad is to reinstall unfortunately.
This is true, I had an infected pc at work. Used adaware & spybot as well as a few others that i cant remember the name off. Each one found different infections, but even after using them all still could not get rid.
[Edited on 07-11-2004 by SetH]
Its a brand new pc and i have a couple of spy things on there already... ill use the ones you recommended cheers
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corsa_fella
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Registered: 22nd Apr 04
Location: Kent
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i use spybot and the webroot spysweeper systems, also another tip is porn sites are full of it and if you run a p2p sharing program such as kazaa,blubster,napster expect to find spyware there.
get rid of all traces,programs that may be causing it,run those programs, do a disk clean, then defrag and it'l be like new!
i did that to mine for that result anyways..
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corsa_fella
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Registered: 22nd Apr 04
Location: Kent
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clean all temp folders,IE temp folders , caches , cookie folders ect
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Ian
Site Administrator
Registered: 28th Aug 99
Location: Liverpool
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Old thread. Microsoft now have anti-spyware software.
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R Lee
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Registered: 15th Aug 03
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quote:
Originally posted by willay
Adware
Spybot
here here, however my adware recently hasn't been updating so i guess i'm using a lame version.
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corsa_fella
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Registered: 22nd Apr 04
Location: Kent
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apparently not on my p.c
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Mav 3000
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Registered: 16th Aug 01
Location: Leicestershire
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Microsoft Anti-Spyware is good like Ian says, but for things which are dug in 'deep', such as hijacked browsers etc, I use Bazooka, available from Download.com.
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