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    Smith's Avatar Since 1989.. BT Rep: +1
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    I have NOD32, and spybot S&D..thats all ive ever used. But it seems like everytime I run spybot theres something new to remove. Is there some sort of low resource half decient spyware blocker? What am I looking for here?

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    peat moss's Avatar Software Farmer BT Rep: +15BT Rep +15BT Rep +15
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    I'm using an all in one myself F-secure , more of a Internet Security suite . But have you tryed Giant or Microsoft's one ? I like Giant its works silently in the back ground , I only notice it at startup . I found Spybot was very slow to update .

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    Do you have Spywareblaster installed?

    http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

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    Smith's Avatar Since 1989.. BT Rep: +1
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    Giant was bought by microsoft..and I dont have a genuine version of XP so I cant download and install it.

    What else can I do?

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    peat moss's Avatar Software Farmer BT Rep: +15BT Rep +15BT Rep +15
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    Quote Originally Posted by Smith View Post
    Giant was bought by microsoft..and I dont have a genuine version of XP so I cant download and install it.

    What else can I do?

    Download Giant or CounterSpy same program as the Microsoft one and still licenced for a few years if memory serves me right . Search for them as their still out there . If you need a hand PM me .

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    I use the Immunize and Tea-Timer features in Spybot and never seem to get hit by anything more malicious than tracking cookies.

    I also use Kaspersky Internet Security which has inbuilt spy-/ad-/mal-ware blocking but haven't seen a notification from it yet so I presume Spybot's keeping things safe on its own.
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    @chewie , I seem to like the bundled all in one Internet Security programs the best . Just seem to work flawlessly or in more tuned ? I'm still using Giant but almost thought the dam thing did n't work as I never seem to get a notification other than a "new start " up program asking to be installed . I try a lot of new programs so no surprise there .

    If it works don't fix it I guess .

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    I tried out this giant thing on my mums laptop. Ran a scan, came up with 1 bad file.

    Then ran S&D and it came up with 9 more that Giant missed. Is this normal?

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    peat moss's Avatar Software Farmer BT Rep: +15BT Rep +15BT Rep +15
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    No that does seem right , is Spybot finding your p2p programs ? I mean Microsoft thought so highly of Giant and Counterspy that they bought the rights to the licence . Did you update definitions first before you scaned ? I 'd like to see a screen shot if I could .

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    smalle's Avatar Belgian Waffle Lover
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    you should try hitmanpro (http://members.home.nl/mloman/hitmanpro25.exe). Its some kind of 'anti spyware pack and installs alot of antispywaretools for you (like a codecs pack). Too bad most of it is in dutch...

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