Best Anti-Spyware free software

wadewade

Having just negotiated (without any difficulty) a reduction in my Telewest (Virgin) monthly rental for phone/TV/broadband from £48 to £24 I have had to accept a reduction in my Virgin PCGuard service in the area of Anti-Spyware control. Instead of the full PCGuard service, I now have PCGuard LITE which no longer deletes spyware automatically.

Is there a free software that will just check for spyware and delete it. I am very satisfied with all the other facilities provided by PCGuard.

Browntoa

if you have XP then

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

Tiff_2

Hi guys,
What would be the best one for Vista?
Thanks,
Much Love,
Tiff xxx

Browntoa

avg antispyware works, see here for instructions

http://forum.grisoft.cz/freeforum/read.php?9,101167,backpage=,sv=

download here
http://free.grisoft.com/doc/20/lng/us/tpl/v5

Doonhamer

There is a free one as part of the Google pack, Spyware Doctor I think. Just search for google pack on google. Uncheck all the other pack stuff you don't want.

PaulK_3

Spybot S&D for spyware, AVG for virus protection. You don't need to pay for protection and to be honest AVG and Spybot S&D have never let me down.

The_Economist

Another good one for spyware is Ad-Aware SE Personal, and its free.

wadewade

Thanks, guys, I seem to be spoilt for choice.

I will still be using Virgin's PCGuard for all my other security. Does anyone know whether one of the above will work better with PCGuard than the rest?

home_alone

The_Economist wrote: »

Another good one for spyware is Ad-Aware SE Personal, and its free.

Be wary of the new 2007 version it is causing a few headaches see moaning on forum.

http://www.lavasoftsupport.com/index.php?showforum=146

gary

Reluctant_spender

Comodo BOClean is a free program that kicks in when malicious software trys to start.

https://www.comodo.com/boclean/boclean.html

alanclose

PaulK wrote: »

Spybot S&D for spyware, AVG for virus protection. You don't need to pay for protection and to be honest AVG and Spybot S&D have never let me down.

You can't always rely on free software, I set up a relative with Spybot, adaware and AVG and he got a virus that none would remove. I advised installing nod32 after all the positive reviews here but in the end it was a trial version of Bitdefender that managed to clean the system. Sometimes you get what you pay for