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12-23-2011, 05:38 PM
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The Gavel
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Recommend a good Spyware program
I've not been following the latest developments lately and would like to DL and run a spyware program on a friends little 10" Acer notebook running XP. I've used Adaware and Spybot in the past but would like know if there's something better now. This Acer is running AVG 9.0 which I updated and ran a scan and no viruses were found. TIA
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12-23-2011, 07:13 PM
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malwarebytes and spybot are generally what I use now. I stopped using adaware a long while ago as it got really bloated.
AVG9 is two major revisions behind now. AVG 2012 is available. Also, some folks are starting to use Microsoft Security Essentials instead of AVG.
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12-23-2011, 07:58 PM
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The Gavel
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12-24-2011, 11:03 AM
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I loaded a bunch of malware and spyware programs onto one of my computers so I could use it to scan a suspect drive. Adaware found a few nasties that the others missed. It did not have any negatives that I noticed. I would imagine you can set it so it does not boot and run in the background all the time if it does seem to be using a noticeable chunk of your system resources...and then run it periodically.
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12-24-2011, 11:46 AM
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Mondsreitersmann
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SuperAntispyware is pretty good.
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12-24-2011, 01:55 PM
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The Gavel
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Thanks for the info.
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12-24-2011, 04:35 PM
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I wasn't impressed with superantispyware when other anti-malware apps started detecting it as adware.
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12-26-2011, 01:19 AM
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Mondsreitersmann
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Which ones?
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12-26-2011, 12:38 PM
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The big three: malwarebytes, adaware, and spybot.
Granted, this was a couple years ago. |
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12-26-2011, 01:09 PM
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Mondsreitersmann
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That's why. I use MBAM and Super Antispyware on my bench machine without them interfering with each other. I gave up on adaware many years ago.
Funny: Bitdefender doesn't like MBAM: when I tried installing a trial version of Bitdefender it wanted to uninstall MBAM; it didn't mark it as a threat or anything, it just said that it was incompatible. So I didn't install Bitdefender. |
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