The Great
Choco Monster
Ghendar
Warlord
13069 Posts
    
Mud Lick, Kentucky
 | | 03/18/2006 2:51 PM |
| I'm currently using a combo of Ad Aware and Spybot which seems to clean my system pretty well. I wonder though if there are any better ones?
What are you using and how does it (they) work? | |
WotC - making me wish more and more every day for a return to the TSR days. :(
I fought the snark and the snark won. I'm baaaaaaaaaaack!
Some of my favorite Maxminis quotes
I actually love to be swallowed. - Posted By gss_000 on 09/04/2007 2:32 PM
Could somebody explain Snatch to me? I understand the basics, but not how to enter/use it. - Posted by orcmonk220
G's the man. - Posted By greyhaze on 11/11/2008 8:58 AM
I dont mind butting heads every once in a while. It makes thing interesting. Thats why I'd be heartbroken if Ghendar ever left - Posted By Count Dooku on 04/03/2006 11:58 AM
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yack
Commander
3320 Posts
Gatineau Canada
| | 03/18/2006 3:03 PM |
| | I'm more of a lavasoft adware user but when its down and dirty I use Counterspy but its only a free trial version for like 13 days or something. Unless you can find a crack code but we will not get into that. | |
Champion of the Peryton
Vindicated Champion : Pit Fiend, Devourer
DW: Duergar Priest
RPG Only!!!! The Drumming Drunkn' DM | |
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Fun Guy from Yuggoth
Cthulhufnord
Warlord
11113 Posts
Umass Amherst Baby!
| | 03/18/2006 4:37 PM |
| | I use Ad-aware myself, it's free and works pretty well. | |
Pathetic Earthlings. Hurling your bodies out into the void - without the slightest inkling of who or what is out here. If you had known anything about the true nature of the universe - anything at all - you would have hidden from it in terror. | |
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Most Edumacated
zenthrus
Warlord
5132 Posts
SLC, UT
| | 03/18/2006 8:15 PM |
| | adaware works just fine for me. | |
Knight Warlord a.k.a. Commander (#32) in only 6 months. Where's my pie?
Champion of Dwarven Thunderlashers
Knight of the Large Dire Chicken
Have/Want List
Trade References | |
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Vrecknidj
Warlord
10493 Posts
United States
| | 03/19/2006 8:28 AM |
| I se Ad Aware as well, but most of the computer magazines I read tell me that there are better pieces of software out there. I just don't feel like buying any.
Dave | |
Knowledge Arcana editor issues 5-9, Phoenix Lore Magazine editor, assistant editor for Rite Publishing;
My Trade Thread and My Reference Thread; Winner of WBC IV, IX and XIII; Rule #0: bshugg is always right! | |
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Alisair Longreach
Sneak
121 Posts
Denmark
| | 03/19/2006 1:53 PM |
| | I use Adaware and SpySweeper. | |
Powergamers of the World, Unite!
Completed Trades: jedijon, Rakhamon | |
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Bert the Troll
Commander
3964 Posts
Adelaide
| | 03/19/2006 6:19 PM |
| Adaware & spybot combination is what I recommand for use :)
Miscrosoft now have a anti-spyware tool too, but is redunant when running both of the above.
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"Mutton yesterday, mutton today, and blimey, if it don't look like mutton again tomorrer." Bert the Troll - The Hobbit
Semi-Secret sig business: "In the age of the internet attaching a famous name to your personal opinion to give more weight to it is a very valid strategy." - Benjamin Franklin
Champion of Epic Lolth, Orcus, & Demogorgon and bring us Asmodeus! | |
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The Great
Choco Monster
Ghendar
Warlord
13069 Posts
Mud Lick, Kentucky
| | 03/04/2007 11:51 AM |
| | Any new ones to add to this list? | |
WotC - making me wish more and more every day for a return to the TSR days. :(
I fought the snark and the snark won. I'm baaaaaaaaaaack!
Some of my favorite Maxminis quotes
I actually love to be swallowed. - Posted By gss_000 on 09/04/2007 2:32 PM
Could somebody explain Snatch to me? I understand the basics, but not how to enter/use it. - Posted by orcmonk220
G's the man. - Posted By greyhaze on 11/11/2008 8:58 AM
I dont mind butting heads every once in a while. It makes thing interesting. Thats why I'd be heartbroken if Ghendar ever left - Posted By Count Dooku on 04/03/2006 11:58 AM
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PaSquall
Underboss
1399 Posts
| | 03/04/2007 12:02 PM |
| Posted By Ghendar on 03/18/2006 2:51 PM
I'm currently using a combo of Ad Aware and Spybot which seems to clean my system pretty well. I wonder though if there are any better ones?
What are you using and how does it (they) work?
Same combo for a long time, and never had a problem.
Spybot is better. I usually run ad-aware, and spybot just after.
Of course the best antispyware is your own brain (especially avoiding nasty websites...)
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Vindicated Champion of the PSEUDODRAGON
(Unhappy) vindicated champion of the DRYAD
Against the giants called shot : huge cloud giant female
Demonweb called shot : ghost | |
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Bert the Troll
Commander
3964 Posts
Adelaide
| | 03/04/2007 4:12 PM |
| Posted By Ghendar on 03/04/2007 11:51 AM
Any new ones to add to this list?
I also use Proxomitron (for any windows web browser) which among many other functions stops spyware thats written into html from working. In default config it's pretty easy to use.
There's lots of add on filters that will help the fightvs spyware.
[quoting from help files]
Here's a partial list of what the Proxomitron can do "out of the box"
(not that it was ever in a box mind you)- Stop windows that pop-up, pop-under, or pop-over
- Stop those un-closable endless banner chains
- Stop pop-up JavaScript message boxes
- Remove web-branding and other scripts tacked on by "free" web providers.
- Convert most ads and banner pictures into simple text links
- Freeze all animated gifs
- Make blinking text appear as bold instead
- Remove slow web counters
- Stop web pages from "auto-refreshing"
- Prevent pages from changing fonts
- Get rid of or replace web page background images
- Protect against getting "trapped" inside someone else's frames!
- Make all frames resizable
- Close top or bottom frame banner windows
- Protect against getting "trapped" inside someone else's frames!
- Make background MIDI songs play only when you choose.
- Remove status bar scroll-texts
- Remove "dynamic" HTML from pages
- Disguise your browser's identity and version from JavaScripts
- Remove style sheets
- Un-hide URLs when the mouse is over a link
- Disable frames or tables altogether
- Change or delete cookies
- Change your browser's user-agent and other identifying fields
- Hide where you've been previously from inquisitive web servers
and, as they say, much, much more. | |
"Mutton yesterday, mutton today, and blimey, if it don't look like mutton again tomorrer." Bert the Troll - The Hobbit
Semi-Secret sig business: "In the age of the internet attaching a famous name to your personal opinion to give more weight to it is a very valid strategy." - Benjamin Franklin
Champion of Epic Lolth, Orcus, & Demogorgon and bring us Asmodeus! | |
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