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What's your favorite spyware removal tool ?

Ad-aware
[ 44 ] (55%)
Spybot
[ 29 ] (36.3%)
Spy Sweeper
[ 1 ] (1.3%)
PestPatrol
[ 1 ] (1.3%)
SpyStopper
[ 0 ] (0%)
SpywareBlaster
[ 0 ] (0%)
SpyRemover
[ 0 ] (0%)
Other (please specify)
[ 0 ] (0%)
None (please elaborate)
[ 5 ] (6.3%)

Total Members Voted: 91

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Reply #25 –
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Easy, I use Mozilla Thunderbird instead of Outlook Express. The worm you described is also known as Klez, which didn't affect me even when I was still using OE because I had my OE updated way ahead of time.


The sad thing is that this is still one of the most active viruses on the Internet.  The stupid security hole it exploits has been patched for years.

I worked tech support and computer repair for a few years and during that time virus scanners were about three times more likely than actual viruses to cause problems that required tech support or bringing the computer in for repair.*  Even if a virus scanner is "free" in monetary terms, they're not free in terms of time and computer resources wasted.

Also, notice that I said I never had "need" for a virus scanner.  I will periodically check a Windows machine I'm using, but over the years that's proven to be a big waste of time.

* The one exception here is realtors, who seemed to get viruses at an astonishing pace.  If you work for or at a realty agency, I recommend being completely paranoid about viruses.  They're like computer leper colonies.  I am NOT joking about this.  Realtors are total virus magnets.  They always get the rarer ones too (the old-style viruses that spread by passively infecting .exe files and being stow-aways on floppies).
I am *expanding!*  It is so much *squishy* to *smell* you!  *Campers* are the best!  I have *anticipation* and then what?  Better parties in *the middle* for sure.
http://www.phong.org/

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Reply #26 –
rjamorim, and a hardy fuck you to you too, jackass. Seriously, what the hell's wrong with you? I'm being quite serious about ways OTHER THAN YOUR WEB BROWSER AND YOUR EMAIL PROGRAM for things to get into your system, and you say I'm full of shit because you use browser X blah blah blah. Your web browser of choice is meaningless. Your email program of choice is meaningless. There is more than one way for you to get infected/affected than just those, which I already stated.  Yet somehow you bring it all back to just IE and OE.  Wake up. And wtf's grc got to do with anything? Sheesh.  If you're not using tools to protect yourself, there's only one other way you could possibly be protected. That's if you KNOW THE SOURCE CODE FOR EVERY PROGRAM YOU USE and know for SURE that there is NOTHING in any of them that could possibly be exploited in any way. The fact that you've got a blind spot or two doesn't give you the right to treat me like shit for pointing out that blind spot to you. So I kindly throw the shit right back over the fence.

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Reply #27 –
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If you're not using tools to protect yourself, there's only one other way you could possibly be protected. That's if you KNOW THE SOURCE CODE FOR EVERY PROGRAM YOU USE and know for SURE that there is NOTHING in any of them that could possibly be exploited in any way.

You are wrong. Again. Heh

Read this:
http://www.acm.org/classics/sep95/

And it's really funny seeing you go berseck and cursing like mad. Just shows that it's impossible to keep a discussion with you.

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Reply #28 –
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What's your favorite spyware removal tool ?

None. ´Cause I´m just in love with spys who look under my blanket. 
Edit:
But now getting serious again: I have to tell a little story, which really happened to me today. So.... here it goes:
As usual today in the morning I started my queued up- and downloads (of course only legal stuff) before I go to work over DC++, then I went away in the expectation that all would run as every day (harddisk is filled up around 1 gig after mostly). - But what did I have to see, when I was back? - My "favourite" virus-scanner freeware-tool, which I maintain nearly daily for updates, named AntiVir started to search my harddisks for viruses automatically while I was away - and indeed finally found one. But instead of deleting it at once, it asked in a specially opened window, if it should delete, or save(!) or give this file a kiss on his ass (?) or whatever - and - and that was really annoying for me now - stopped during that time (it were more than 6 hours until i came back) the whole in- and outbounding internet-traffic of my computer until i had given commands what that nasty proggy shall do!!! - So, now, a few hours ago, I decided that there can be only one punishment for this crime: the death-penalty ! - May you burn in hell, you f*cking, nasty so-called virus-scanner. You made more harm than any virus ever made before on my comp!
My used codecs and settings:
FLAC V1.1.2 -4 / APE V3.99 Update 4 -high / MPC V1.15v --q 5 / LAME V3.97b2 -V2 --vbr-new / OGG aoTuV V4.51 Lancer -q5

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Reply #29 –
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By the way, I have also tested several web virus scanners, and so far I find the Trend Micro one to be the best, HouseCall. Any other good ones? Norton only provides detection, as far as I see, although I find their specific removal tools to be the best available. And I find Panda a bit unstable.

On the ICSA Labs online virus scanner certification page they only list Trend Micro HouseCall as certified:
http://www.icsalabs.com/html/communities/a..._certprod.shtml

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Reply #30 –
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And it's really funny seeing you go berseck and cursing like mad. Just shows that it's impossible to keep a discussion with you.

go read your own reply, you're the one that started the shit. Dumbass.

<edit> not to mention your little link is an argument in favor of MY point, not yours, heh. Like I just said, unless you know every line of source for every program you use, you can't trust it. The compiler you get your programs from is also a program itself that you use, duh.

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Reply #31 –
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<edit> not to mention your little link is an argument in favor of MY point, not yours, heh. Like I just said, unless you know every line of source for every program you use, you can't trust it. The compiler you get your programs from is also a program itself that you use, duh.

I really see you didn't get Ken's point at all. (the whole point, not only the example, although I see you only understood the example)

I suggest you give up now, you are only making a fool out of yourself.

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Reply #32 –
YES SIR, SIRTY SIR SIR SIR! You're sad. You start swearing at me, so I respond in kind, and *I* am the one making a fool of myself, heh.

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Reply #33 –
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YES SIR, SIRTY SIR SIR SIR! You're sad. You start swearing at me, so I respond in kind, and *I* am the one making a fool of myself, heh.

Quote where I swore at you.

Funnily, I see tou you was very far from responding "in kind".

Since you didn't quote where I swore at you, let me quote where you swore at me:

"rjamorim, and a hardy fuck you to you too, jackass."

"So I kindly throw the shit right back over the fence. "

"go read your own reply, you're the one that started the shit. Dumbass."

On reply to that: I claimed you are full of sh*t, basing on the stuff that you wrote. I hardly consider that swearing.

oh, well...

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Reply #34 –
RoFL... all this over spyware removal... man each man to their own devices thats what I say!!

Anyways just a quick question... whats the Alexa toolbar that SpySweeper picked up? All it had in the file was MSN related stuff... I deleted it and removed it so I better have no problems running IE? Could someone please elaborate?

Regards

AgentMil
-=MusePack... Living Audio Compression=-

Honda - The Power of Dreams

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Reply #35 –
quote it yourself, it's right there for you to read. I grow tired of you and your denial of what's right there in plain words.

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Reply #36 –
_Shorty, please, take a deep breath and relax...

Even opensource won't protect you from unknown bugs, as you might not notice the patch early enough.
You never know whether there are no security bugs...

But you don't need to run the virus scanner all the time if you don't install/run any unchecked software.

BTW, do you have the sourcecode of all the security programs you use?

Personally, I use the antivirus on demand (Avast), one firewall (ipfw) and one 'system protector'
(Tiny PF 5) to check which programs run and do network connections.
I don't need to scan e-mails. Even if Thunderbird has some obscure security bug, I have html sanitizer on.
(rjamorim, some email programs don't send html+text mail by default)
Mozilla Firebird doesn't allow automatic running of software
and I have Java, Flash and some JavaScript statusbar tricks turned off.
Unless I install some unknown soft, I don't scan for spyware.
I don't open mail attachments without scanning them first and can discern a hoax/virus from legitimate email.

Common Sense and utilities combined are a best weapon.
ruxvilti'a