Best Spyware Blocker / Remover Software

[SS_bnoon_SS]

Thanks for the reminder, I just reloaded my work machine back to XP after being Vista for a year (no problems with Vista personally, but many of the older Nortel network and voice tools are not very Vista happy). I hadn't reloaded any spyware programs yet, better hop to it.

 

FTW, I'll take Spybot, Symantec (setup properly), and weekly system backups to a USB drive (to cheap to not have one these days, so GO GET ONE!).

 

Oh, by the way, don't turn on automatic updates unless you like unintended features. Read and research updates and only install what's really needed. From a computer geek that's probably been a computer geek almost as long as many of the members on this board have been alive.

Edited May 29, 2008 by SS_bnoon_SS (see edit history)

[Bonj87]

Thanks for the reminder, I just reloaded my work machine back to XP after being Vista for a year (no problems with Vista personally, but many of the older Nortel network and voice tools are not very Vista happy). I hadn't reloaded any spyware programs yet, better hop to it.

 

FTW, I'll take Spybot, Symantec (setup properly), and weekly system backups to a USB drive (to cheap to not have one these days, so GO GET ONE!).

did you try telling those programs to run in legacy XP mode?

 

Spybot , Symantec ENPOINT PROTECTION (very important to note that name.. that version), ad aware, use the smitfraudfix (the LATEST ONE), RUBotted, Trend's HouseCall online scanner, disable Windows Resore.. that will help..

Edited May 29, 2008 by Bonj87 (see edit history)

[SS_bnoon_SS]

did you try telling those programs to run in legacy XP mode?

 

Never an option in my version of Vista for "legacy", but yes, we did try XP compatability settings, running as system admin/etc. The file structure for the program to run was just not made to be compatible with the "temp" or "faux" files that Vista tries to run in, even in campatability modes. What we found is that in compatability mode, it cut the data LAN port off from being able to write good/live sniffer data to the actual file. The data would appear to be there, but was corrupt upon opening. Spent nearly a month with a Nortel data engineer trying to fix it before just reloading.

[Bonj87]

interesting. an idea you could have run with was to keep vista, but run XP in a VM to run your nortel software?

[SS_bnoon_SS]

interesting. an idea you could have run with was to keep vista, but run XP in a VM to run your nortel software?

 

No, we have one machine here in the office with VMware that runs it (actually have Vista, XP, XP SP3, and 2000 server on it), but out in the field a dual boot or VM isn't really feasible on a laptop. XP SP3 even killed some of the older Nortel tools.

[Krambo]

Thanks for the replies guys! I downloaded SpyBot SD and all of the updates for free and installed it. It cleaned up 50+ issues!!! All good now it seams.

 

The reason this happened to me is that the comp I am on right now hasn't seen the internet in 1.5 years and all of the anti spyware and virus protection expired (I only had the first 6 months free when I bought the computer and never renewed). Since my work LapTop is WiFi and my neighbor has an password UNprotetected router, I just steal a signal from them and never needed my own service. I recently bought a Verizon wireless mobile modem and started using it on this comp. Since all of the protection goodies were not effective, this comp got slammed!!

 

For the record, if you go on casino websites for any on-line poker fun, they load up tons of spyware. Be advised