Re: [SWCollect] Spyware

2004-03-08 Thread AvatarTom
In a message dated 03/08/2004 7:48:11 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Spybot seek & destroy is also excellent.  A previous post had both links. You have to be careful with this one. Here's why, someone told me to get spybot. So I searched for it. Took me to site spybot.com

[SWCollect] Software Collecting Expo

2004-03-08 Thread C.E. Forman
Hey gang, Just a quick note to say we've finally got a discussion group for a collecting expo. Come on over if you'd like to help organize it, know some possible guest speakers (John, looking at you here), or if you just want to hear what we're talking about. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scexpo

Re: [SWCollect] Spyware

2004-03-08 Thread Lee K. Seitz
Dan Chisarick stated: > >And last, run a web browser (Mozilla, Safari, whatever) that has= >integrated popup-blocking. Anything but IE. Spare yourself some pain >before it starts. I can't argue against not using IE, except that some sites don't always work well with something else. I use the Go

Re: [SWCollect] Spyware

2004-03-08 Thread Dan Chisarick
While it is a little off-topic I can't help but throw in my $0.02... LavaSoft is excellent. Spybot seek & destroy is also excellent. A previous post had both links. My father recently had a problem (dozens of spybots), and now he runs both. One will find ones the other won't. No complaints, b

Re: [SWCollect] Spyware

2004-03-08 Thread AvatarTom
In a message dated 03/08/2004 9:02:40 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: take a different approach to spyware, one that you might find useful. I use Norton Ghost to make an image I use Ghost to backup my C: drive too occasionally. I actually have partitions C-M. C: is about 7G

Re: [SWCollect] Spyware

2004-03-08 Thread Chris Newman
Tom,   I take a different approach to spyware, one that you might find useful. I use Norton Ghost to make an image (a sector by sector snapshot) of my C drive (or Windows partition, depending if you have only a single drive) that contains the latest drivers and apps for my hardware. My actua

Re: [SWCollect] Spyware

2004-03-08 Thread BL
Spyware is really common now in days - if you've had an active PC for a while, then suddenly decide to run these programs, yes, you are absolutely going to find a lot of stuff, from tracking cookies and dialers to memory resident programs & hijacks you didnt even know were starting at boot-u

Re: [SWCollect] Spyware

2004-03-08 Thread Christopher Forman
Tom,   I've been using Ad-Aware (LavaSoft) for awhile now.  The basic version is free and removes most known spyware.  I run it about once a week. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had a LOT of spyware on my computer as I've been using same drive/programs for a long time (like close to 100 spybots). If yo

[SWCollect] Spyware

2004-03-08 Thread AvatarTom
I had a LOT of spyware on my computer as I've been using same drive/programs for a long time (like close to 100 spybots). If you'd like to check these sites are free (scan and REMOVE, many ask you to pay to remove). If anyone runs I'd be interested in hearing results (see if anyone has more than I