Comments on: Anti-spyware!?

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:06:49 +0000

The following tools/steps will help you ensure your safety! In addition, you are in control of what you download and only you can prevent yourself from getting a virus. The following tools will help you protect against it and delete a virus, but remember the fait of your computer is in YOUR Hands.
AntiVirus/AntiSpyware/AntiRoot…http://www.free.grisoft.com/doc/1…….…
AVG Anti-Virus
AVG Anti-Spyware
AVG-Anti Rootkit
Anti Spyware/Rootkit:
http://www.safer-networking.org/
Spybot Search and Destroy
http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/f...
A-Squared Anti-Spyware Free
http://www.lavasoft.com
Ad-Aware Personal SE
Firewall:
http://www.comodo.com
Comodo Personal Firewall
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Step-By-Step Method to Ensuring YOUR Security
1) Uninstall ALL Anti-Virus and Firewalls that you may already have. As these, will cause conflicts with the ones you will be suggested to download.
2) Download ALL of the programs above.
3) After download all the programs re-start your computer twice, ensuring that all/most of the programs start on start-up. Ad-Aware, Spybot and Anti Rootkit and A-Squared shouldn’t. Make sure the firewall and AntiVirus do though.
4) Update all of the programs. You should do daily updates, and weekly scans. This will most definitly ensure your protection and your system status!
5) Re-Boot into Safe mode. To log into safe mode, “Button-Mash” (simoltaneously hit the key) F8. Then if it gives you a menu, hit “Safe-Mode”.
6) After giving it a minute or two to start-up, open up all of the AVG programs. Run them, give them an hour or two as this is their first scan.
7) Save your report if it gives you the option to, and if it does happen to detect a virus, then simply remove it.
Open up, A-Squared Free Edition, Ad-Aware, Spybot, SpySweep but, NOT WINDOWS DEFENDER! Run all of these programs and use them to scan. Again, if they detect anything then delete it. If you detected something previously in the AVG Scans then Congratulations! AVG was a great choice for you.
9) Open Windows Defender. Windows Defender is average, and takes a while to scan. Let that scan, and it shouldn’t find anything at this point.
10) Congratulations! You have succesfully completed this Anti-Infection Proccess and you are guarenteed safety!
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Need a Clean-up?
Download:
http://www.ccleaner.com/
A simple program that removes unused and temporary files from Windows machines.
O&O Defraghttp://www.oo-software.com/home/en/produ…
O&O Defrag Professional is the most professional and user-friendly features ever found in defragmentation software.
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Step-By-Step method on cleaning up your Comp (Basic Version only):
1) Run & Install all the programs above
2) Restart Computer to ensure installation
3) Run Safe Mode (Explained in Virus Clean-Up above)
4) Run all the programs, but NOT O&O Defrag YET!
5) CCleaner will find some stuff and hit fix this and it will clean basic things.
6) Now, for this, make sure, that you DO NOT have any programs running. Exit out of any programs running!!
7) Run O&O Defrag. You’ll see on the top top toolbar “Defragmentation” Click that, and then hit “Complete/Name” This is the most complex organazation tool and will take a long, long time! I’d reccomend doing this overnight while your sleeping!

By: skiracer

skiracer — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 11:16:07 +0000

Ad-aware.
Your probably running AVG free I take it, which is one of your problems. AVG free is about 2 weeks late on the updates. If you do alot of downloading or online video watching, do yourself a favor and buy a good virus scan. You can usually get them free for life from rebates thereafter.

By: Jeff d

Jeff d — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 09:18:36 +0000

If your computer has been accessing the Internet unprotected it is infected. Spyware has surpassed viruses as the #1 threat to identity theft and without protection your Internet activities are never private.
Top Ten Anti-Spyware Software Review 2007 LINK:http://www.topten-reviews.info/

By: sagem

sagem — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 04:41:38 +0000

For all computer related problems please check out
http://computer-probs.blogspot.com/
It not only gives complete solutions but also offers
free downloads of effective softwares which can detect
and eliminate all spy ware /virus /ad ware /Trojans completely.

By: CMIKS

CMIKS — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 04:24:18 +0000

Everyone has their favorites. I recommend Spybot Search and Destroy (be sure to enable TeaTimer), and Symantec’s free online scan (via Yahoo! Toolbar).

By: x_southe

x_southe — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 02:56:29 +0000

Spybot Search & Destroyhttp://www.safer-networking.org/
AND
Ad-Aware 2007http://www.lavasoftusa.com/products/ad_a…
USE __BOTH__!!! KEEP them UPDATED! …and run them at least weekly. I run mine DAILY.
In addition to ditching AVG’s “anti-spyware”, turn off the AVG AV real time protection and get and USE Avast Anti-virus. Avast is FAR superior to AVG in MANY ways. Just use the AVG as a back up to Avast if you keep the AVG at all. http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.ht…
No matter WHAT anti-malware progs you run it’s always best NOT to rely on only ONE database of info to find mal-ware.
In addition, all the anti-malware progs in the world will NOT do one bit of good if they are not KEPT UP TO DATE and USED on a REGULAR basis.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 22:49:05 +0000

check if your internet service provider offers security suites free including antivirus, antispyware, and firewall. I have Road Runner from Time Warner and they offer an eTrust security suite.

By: Gabriel B

Gabriel B — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:51:23 +0000

Webroot.Spy.Sweeper is in my opinion the best if you want you can try it under http://www.download.com/Webroot-Spy-Swee…
Hope that helps .