What's The Best Spyware Prog?

shanti

Hi there
I have a firewall and use avg anti virus too but I was wondering what other security I need espacially spyware. Does anyone know what is the best and pref free? thanks

Mr_Skint_2

Adaware is a good Freebie so is Spybot Search and Destroy...
or Microsofts AntiSpyware Beta Aint to bad...

wolfman

The Microsoft one is probably the best of the freebies. AdAware and Spybot have slipped slightly in comparison to other products on the market, they're in the "average" kind of category.

Spyware Doctor (£20) or CounterSpy (£12) are two of the best. To be honest though you should be fine with the free suggestions. For £12 CounterSpy is a worthy paid for product.

Mr_Skint_2

@wolfman :beer:

hey look what I just stumbled accross, I aint had a proper look yet
but could be of some use...... http://www.adwarereport.com/mt/archives/000008.html

Oh yeah Microsoft have made it harder for Fire Fox users to
download the AntiSpyware Software as the MS Validation Tool
wont run in FF only IE so I suggest that FF users View the page
in IE for the download....

MS AntiSpyware http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx

FF IEView Extension https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=35&application=firefox

And any Users without a Valid Genuine copy of XP dont bother
as you will not get the Anti Spyware to download....

shanti

thank you!!

Mattjimf

Mr_Skint wrote:

And any Users without a Valid Genuine copy of XP dont bother
as you will not get the Anti Spyware to download....

you can turn off the vaildation tool by tools > manage add-ons then selecting the microsoft genuine advantage validation tool and clicking on disable, daft i know but then this is microsoft

John_Gray

Perhaps the Spyware Warrior site is worth a look, particularly the Anti-Spyware Comparison and Anti-Spyware Testing sections...

John

Mr_Skint_2

Mattjimf wrote:

you can turn off the vaildation tool by tools > manage add-ons then selecting the microsoft genuine advantage validation tool and clicking on disable, daft i know but then this is microsoft

Hi

Since the advent of Windows Update Validation Ver6.0
if this is turned off you wont get Antispyware as it needs to be running.

LouLou

Spyware Eliminator did look promising, until I read this..http://www.spywareinfo.com/newsletter/archives/1104/4.php

Apparently Aluria has teamed up with WhenU.com, a well known adware company. Yikes.

Pulse

I've always used Adaware, and it works fairly well, although I would recommend maybe using 2 spyware programs, as they are not 100% perfect, and some will miss stuff that others wont, and vice versa.