Is it a coincidence that Spy Bot

Happy_Bunny_6

Since I changed to Firefox, I've noticed an increase in the problems Spybot turns up,
eg, 43 problems this scan, normally would have expected 4 or 5

Is that a coincidence?

thomas01155

do you use any other spy ware finders you should not just rely on one. There might be spy ware witch spybot cant find which keeps downloading them and use the immunize feature on spybot as well.

Reluctant_spender

Are the problems it finds written in red text?

thomas01155

Blocks spyware
http://www.download.com/SpywareBlaster/3000-8022_4-10486084.html?tag=lst-3-4
scanners
http://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-SE-Personal-Edition/3000-8022_4-10399602.html?tag=pop.software
http://www.filehippo.com/download_ewido/

Reluctant_spender

You could also consider Window Defender - https://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/msft/default.mspx

alanrowell

Spybot gets a lot of false positives with Firefox

pennineman

alanrowell wrote:

Spybot gets a lot of false positives with Firefox

Why is that? I've noticed this too having just changed from Opera to Firefox.

movieman

Not for me.

Are you sure it's not just complaining about tracking cookies?

tomthebomb

I am having the same problem (48 items dealt with) and have both Spybot & SpywareBlaster on the job and "immunised".

Even if I rescan Immediately the 48 problems are back again.

Is this something we should be worried about?

Reluctant_spender

Can you list the 48 problems here so we can look at it?

DrSmutt

perhaps an email to patrick kolla at safer networking could help.

he may not even know about a problem, he needs feedback.