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Adware / Spyware blockers
Posted: 12 May 2004, 20:55
by Planet Dave
Apologies for asking old questions (I looked for the previous thread but got bored on page
, but are there any decent free programs that do the above.
Cheers in advance,
Dave
Posted: 12 May 2004, 20:58
by Planet Dave
How ace. If you type 8, and are then foolish enough to follow it with a close bracket ), you get a cool face. Wonderful.
Posted: 12 May 2004, 21:07
by lazarus corporation
Ad-aware is quite good (
http://www.lavasoft.de/)
The standard version is free for non-commercial use
Posted: 12 May 2004, 21:09
by Hojyuu-obi
lazarus corporation wrote:Ad-aware is quite good (
http://www.lavasoft.de/)
The standard version is free for non-commercial use
I use that one too.
Posted: 12 May 2004, 21:11
by Gary
Hojyuu-obi wrote:lazarus corporation wrote:Ad-aware is quite good (
http://www.lavasoft.de/)
The standard version is free for non-commercial use
I use that one too.
Me to, excellant peice of software
Posted: 12 May 2004, 21:53
by Planet Dave
Blooming marvellous. Cheers boys. Long may your stars shine bright.
Posted: 12 May 2004, 21:56
by CellThree
Spyware Blaster as well is very useful. Stops the stuff from installing in the first place:
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
Posted: 12 May 2004, 23:04
by James Blast
Mac OS X
NEXT!
Posted: 13 May 2004, 00:40
by Black Planet
http://www.spywareinfo.com/
Lots of good info. Helped me to get rid of the browser hijack on my pc.
Posted: 13 May 2004, 08:25
by sisxbeforedawn
try
www.snapfiles.com (used to be
www.webattack.com) and in the freeware section you'll find what you're after
Posted: 13 May 2004, 10:38
by Planet Dave
Cheers peeps,
I've now got ad-aware and spyblaster installed, and funnily enough my PC seems to work a bit quicker. Fancy that.
Cheers again O knowledgable ones.
Posted: 14 May 2004, 05:03
by ryan
http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/index.html worked for me. does anyone get that really annoying 'internet optimizer' thing instead of an error page? this fixes it