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spy-blasting
Posted: 26 Nov 2004, 16:35
by Ocean Moves
does anyone have any comments on using
"spybot - search and destroy" against "spyware blaster 3.2"
--both freeware spyware programs, but which of the two is the best
to install ?
re:
Posted: 26 Nov 2004, 16:53
by Ocean Moves
I've read some concerning stories on ZDNET of XP users installing
Spybot and not being able to uninstall it, loosing DLL´s etc...
is this a genuine problem?
Christ, Ive started replying to my own posts now,
maybe I should get out more.....
Posted: 26 Nov 2004, 16:56
by Ferry H.P.
I installed those but they did nothing.
Spare yourself the trouble and download:
Ad-Aware from Lavasoft
and
Spy Sweeper from Webroot.
After testing 10 likewise programs, these two were the only good ones.
They didn't remove my browser hijacker, but sure cleaned up a lot.
Posted: 26 Nov 2004, 19:00
by CellThree
I use:
Spyware Blaster
Adaware
Spybot - Search and Destroy
You shouldn't be using one or t'other.
Spybot and Adaware do a similar sort of thing, but Spybot does pick up some things that Adaware misses.
Spyware Blaster writes entries to the registry to stop spyware programs, diallers, browser hijacks etc from installing in the first place.
You should have all three installed. There is no one quickfix program as far as I know.
Posted: 26 Nov 2004, 19:26
by rian
I use:
Adaware
Spybot
Chredder
Ccleaner
Highjack this
When my clients have problems. You can't survive with just one of them.
re:
Posted: 26 Nov 2004, 20:20
by Ocean Moves
are there any FREEWARE (not trial) programs around that
are good at improving PC performance / and cleaning registry dirt ?
thanks guys
Posted: 26 Nov 2004, 20:46
by smiscandlon
CellThree wrote:Spybot and Adaware do a similar sort of thing, but Spybot does pick up some things that Adaware misses.
Strange, I usually find the opposite. I ran a Spybot search the other day which found & fixed 24 problems, then ran an Adaware scan straight after & found a further 96 items...
Re: re:
Posted: 26 Nov 2004, 21:14
by rian
Erinyes wrote:are there any FREEWARE (not trial) programs around that
are good at improving PC performance / and cleaning registry dirt ?
thanks guys
Check my post. All are freeware
Posted: 26 Nov 2004, 21:23
by lazarus corporation
Posted: 26 Nov 2004, 22:01
by Hojyuu-obi
Is there any tool ou there that converts Real Player video to .avi or .mpeg?
@
LazCorp
Great list btw.!
Posted: 26 Nov 2004, 23:54
by Rivers
Whilst we're talking computers I asked last week for a program that enabled me to take still frame snapshots from dvds. I'm glad to inform everyone that Media Player Classic does the job well and is free. It is a re-written version of Media Player. Recommended.
I use Ad-aware and Spybot. The reason that they both find things that the other can't is that they use different methods of searching. Spybot has a list of things to find whilst Ad-aware does something else which I've now forgotten! I also use Zone Alarm fire wall. I find these progs work well but I use Windows 98. Perhaps hackers prefer to attack XP now.
Posted: 27 Nov 2004, 00:50
by Francis
CellThree wrote:Spybot - Search and Destroy
Got rid of my little browser hijacker fncker. Still looking good C3.
Posted: 27 Nov 2004, 01:56
by Dan
Hojyuu-obi wrote:Is there any tool ou there that converts Real Player video to .avi or .mpeg?
Recently I managed to solve that little problem. I tried lots of progs that were supposed to do the job, but none of them worked.
In the end I tried
RM Converter v2.21.
Please note that this program didn't work wheh I tried to convert some realaudio, BUT, if you install this program it brings with it some sort of codec which means that tmpgenc will now convert realaudio to mpg.
I only discovered that when I uninstalled RM converter which I assumed was redundant as I'd discovered tmpgenc could do the job, then discovered tmpgenc needed it.
Posted: 27 Nov 2004, 08:02
by CellThree
Francis wrote:CellThree wrote:Spybot - Search and Destroy
Got rid of my little browser hijacker fncker. Still looking good C3.
re:
Posted: 27 Nov 2004, 19:12
by Ocean Moves
the world of codecs is a dark and mysterious one to me.
every attempt I made to install codecs to get windows media player to play my DVDs failed, until I installed WinDVD, now media player plays everything
perfectly