free adware remover

magoogy

anyone know of a good free adware remover, which doesnt just scan and then tell you you need to buy the software..........fed up of downloading free software then finding it wont do if free...............

aussielle

You can download ad-aware personal se here

I've successfully used this for some time now, it's free to scan and remove

HTH

magoogy

downloading it now - will let you know what i think thank you...........

aussielle

Don't forget to check regularly for updates..
it's only as good as it's latest update

alanrowell

Adaware, spybot, if you look in the stickies about security you'll find lots of information

Fran

alanrowell wrote:

Adaware, spybot, if you look in the stickies about security you'll find lots of information

Unfortunately the links in the stickies don't work at the moment.

Edit- I mean that the links to other threads on this site don't work; the external links should be working fine.

julesnye

I'd also try Spygone I use several as not all remove the same parasites\adware. I had a critical parasite on my PC called webrate and this was the only one that found it and deleted it.

Sorry here's the link:-->

http://www.spygone.com/swn.html

opportunity_cost

julesnye wrote:

I'd also try Spygone I use several as not all remove the same parasites\adware. I had a critical parasite on my PC called webrate and this was the only one that found it and deleted it.

Sorry here's the link:-->

http://www.spygone.com/swn.html

Spygone is listed as a rogue product by many anti-spyware websites. Apparently it is a Spybot-Search&Destroy rip-off. More on that here and here

blinky

In addition to Adaware Personal

SPybot search and destroy http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html

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

If on XP you might as well try the Microsoft Antispyware Tool (formerly Giant Antispyware).

General consensus is that the commercial tools aren't very good and often label non-spyware items as spyware to inflate the number of things they claim to protect against.

LincsLad_3

blinky wrote:

In addition to Adaware Personal
General consensus is that the commercial tools aren't very good and often label non-spyware items as spyware to inflate the number of things they claim to protect against.

I wouldn't agree that the commercial tools "aren't very good", although they all vary in what they classify as spyware. I would say that they ARE very good at removing or preventing the installation of malware but you do need more than one as each product's idea of what is and is not spyware does vary as Blinky suggests.

They are also only as good as their last database update so, like antivirus products, Spyware removers need to be kept updated regularly.