Anti Spyware?

[Smith]

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?

[peat moss]

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 .

[lordloc]

Do you have Spywareblaster installed?

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

[Smith]

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?

[peat moss]

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 . :)

[Chewie]

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.

[peat moss]

@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 . :yup:

[Smith]

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?

[peat moss]

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 .

[smalle]

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...

[Smith]

It says its at the latest version. I dont know. Ill run another scan now and see if S&D picks up anything. Then run Giant.

[Smith]

Just a little update. I ran a scan in both spybot and giant.

Spybot first:

http://img131.imageshack.us/img131/7025/spybotru5.jpg

Giant Second:

http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/2259/giantar6.jpg

It would seem that Giant is SHIT compared to spybot.

Might I add that Giant has picked up that same peice of spyware 3 times in a row..so it would also seem that Giant is shit at not only detecting spyware, but removing it too.

[peat moss]

Sometimes its how you setup a program to protect you , example Real time protection and Advanced tools . I'm not going to start a pissing contest you've tried it and that's you opinion I respect that , but I won't be reinstalling Spybot anytime soon . :)

[Smith]

How should I set this up, I'm not arguing with you, I just dont want spyware lol.

[peat moss]

Talk to the hand !:ghey: Just kidding , it seems like you don't have the program set up right tho? If it flags a spyware file then you should be able to delete it .

I don't have the answer but just a program I thought was tried and true , I never recommend a program unless I at least try it first then I can comment on it . :)

There is a tut here to help and could be used for Counter Spy , Giant , or the Microsoft flavour one .

http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/ms_antispyware_preview.asp