Hi, Steven Spyware is still in its infancy, so to speak, in regards to detection and removal. There are a great deal of products out there that make claims to remove everything and you will find that none of them remove it all.
The first rule of spyware, etc protection is your surfing habits. You need to look at what and how you do things on the internet. This is the most important rule yet. Some of my recommendations are as follows: 1. If you are a gamer and/or you download a lot of software, music, avi's, etc then you need to purchase a seperate computer to handle just that kind of surfing. The other computer should have just the operating system on it and the browser you will use. Add in a firewall and antivirus program for some protection while you are connected (this type of surfing will still leave you wide open to attack anyway but some protection is required anyway). This way you can surf as you wish, download, scan and occassionally just reformat and reinstall the system (when you first set it up do a Ghost of the system prior to connecting then when you reinstall it is simple and ready for surfing again). 2. If you don't do the above then be very very selective in what sites you visit. Implement the following: a. Hardware firewall (you may have this if you are on DSL etc) b. Software firewall on your system (I use ZA Security Suite which has the firewall, spam protection, antivirus protection, IM protection, etc.) c. Install the following: 1. Spyware Guard 2. Spyware Blaster 3. Ad-Aware SE 4. Spyware Search and Destroy 5. The full paid version of Spy Sweeper (SmartComputing rates it pretty darn high as some other periodicals do) 6. DO NOT INSTALL the Windows crappy spyware tools. d. Use tools such as the paid versions of CCleaner (Crap Cleaner) and MRU-Blaster. Use these tools periodically to keep your system cleaned. e. Get rid of XP Home edition and convert to XP Pro. Higher security capabilities and more security configurability for you. f. Go the NIST and download their security template for Windows XP Professional and implement it. g. Kill any other services your system does not need. h. Use the full version of Mailwasher Pro to screen your incoming mail. i. Do NOT USE Outlook. Use Thunderbird mail program along with Mailwasher. j. Follow good password security. k. Use encryption when necessary. Off the top of my head this should provide you with additional security and protection. It should provide you with a good start anyway. Good Luck Steven Charles On 12/5/05, Steven Boldt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have Ad-Aware > I have Microsoft AntiSpaywere > I have Spy sweeper > I have Spyware Doctor > I have AOL Spyware Protection > I have SBC Yahoo! Online Protection spy > I have SpywareGuard > > I updated every program before running it. I did a full scan with > all the programs. The programs that fond stuff were > Spy sweeper fond 1 cookie > Spyware Doctor fond 6 things > > The rest of the programs did not find any. What really is the best > program that scans every inch of your computer? People on yahoo > groups say that's good and this is good. I do not know what to > think any more. Does anyone have Norton's spyware edition? If > anyone does how good is it? At the same time as It's scanning your > computer for viruses does it scan for Ad-Aware and spyware. My > Norton AntiVirus 2005 fond some Ad-Aware when I had kazaa. Lol > never go to Kazaa. With my version of Norton do you think it scans > for Ad-Aware and spyware and just names it all as Ad-Aware as to not > confuse the person? I want everyone's opinion please. > > Please reply Steven Boldt > > > I have > Windows XP home > 40GB hard drive > 512 of ram > 2.80GHz processor > > > > > > > If you have any questions or problems with any aspect of this site, please > feel free to contact me directly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please do not post > personal issues directly to the group. > > To unsubscribe from this list, send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Thank you for using A-1 Computer Tech > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/2jUsvC/tzNLAA/TtwFAA/67folB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> If you have any questions or problems with any aspect of this site, please feel free to contact me directly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please do not post personal issues directly to the group. To unsubscribe from this list, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you for using A-1 Computer Tech Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/A-1-Computer_Tech/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
