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Microsoft Anti-Spyware: What a joke.

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--- Quote from: toadlife ---Well, I've found stuff that MS Anti-spyware found that adaware didn;t and vice vera, so I don't think can say there is one anti-spyware app that is the end-all to spyware. I've also found that MS anti-spyware is better at removing the worst kind of spyware -the 'infectious' kind.

Of course I haven't had spyware problems in quite a long time. Perhaps Adware and SBSD have improved since then?
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Absolutely. I use spyware scanners every day. I work for CompUSA and we have no and I mean NO shortage of customers with Spyware issues. All day I take calls about it. Here is the longest but best, end all be all for spyware removal (in my humble opinion). Download and create a BartPE disc with the newest version of Adaware and any other spyware program you can get on there as well as Stinger and AVG for anti virus scanning. Boot off of the Bart PE disc (whilst doing it you are screwing MS cause they have WinPE which they won't let yall purchase and is basically what Bart was modeled after) Using it you are booting into a RAM disk clean version of WindowsXP - run your scans on the drive with all of your gear - you also if connected to a network have internet access and can update and DL anything you want. This will get all Spyware and viruses that are in the MBR and that have identifable code on the drive. However, it often times will miss stuff that has to be running in RAM to detect. You then boot up the machine and re-run them locally or run different programs. Yes run MS Anti Spyware it does work it finds tons of crap that Spybot, Adaware, and even the Retail SpySweeper misses. Or if you want to be snarky you can run from a network attached machine. Then enable the option in SpyBot to re-run after the reboot and it will run again after you restart finding even more stuff in RAM usually. Often times I will have to run 4 separate Spyware scanners to be sure. I also like TDS from diamond.cs. I do not like the MS Anti Spyware program but if it finds anything the others don't it is still worth the 5 min to run it.

My 2 cents.

tagurit

Lord C:

--- Quote from: toadlife ---Well, I've found stuff that MS Anti-spyware found that adaware didn;t ...
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You would.

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