You might want to dump Ad-Aware

ixnay · January 18, 2003, 20:09

Yes, I've been using adaware for quite some time to clean my system of nasty spyware. But in a discussion on another forum, it would seem that Adaware is practically dead and useless now. There haven't been any updates since September 24, so there's been a good deal more spyware that's cropped up since then.
So, if you're still runnning adaware (or if you don't have an anti-spyware program to begin with), I'd suggest switching to Spybot: S&D. I just got it, and I find it to be much better than adaware, since it picked up a bunch of stuff adaware never did as well as having integrated update software.

Article about Adaware nowadays:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/newslette...2/12252002.php

Sava · January 18, 2003, 20:26

ixnay... yer the sh1t!!

Faboba · January 18, 2003, 21:04

Kazaa refuses to load once I delete it's illicit web-monitors. There's nothing I can do to stop the junk mail now so why bother trying?....

orange · January 18, 2003, 21:06

thanks Ixnay

Finally I am rid of Xupiter!!!!

Skanky Burns · January 18, 2003, 21:07

Get Kazaa lite.

If its once-every-3-hour popup is still too much, get diet kaza (www.dietk.com) to use over the top of kazaa lite.

Faboba · January 18, 2003, 21:19

The sad truth is I really am too lazy to even go that far.

FrustratedPoet · January 18, 2003, 21:36

Thanks Kyle. Good tip.

Dis · January 19, 2003, 03:41

Kazaa lite is the way to go man!!

I can't believe I used to have Kazaa regular.

Worthingtons · January 19, 2003, 05:22

Woss the big-deal about spyware!?
Who cares what i do on the net?? it's not like i'm viewing child porn sites or owt, so I aint fussed

Asher · January 19, 2003, 05:29

1) Takes up system resources
2) Can cause system stability issues/incompatibility
3) They're *******s and trying to be sneaky about it. The bastards.

DRoseDARs · January 19, 2003, 05:32

Spyware can range between minor irritant (more and frequent popup spawning) to down right malicious (data-mining). The nastier spyware can gather personal information about you stored on your hard drive and send that information God-knows-where to be used to do God-knows-what. This information can include street addresses, phone numbers, Social Security Numbers (or non-USA equivalent), passwords, even credit card numbers...any kind of personal information stored on your hard drive. Brilliant Digital tried to pull a fast one on the unsuspecting with their spyware. If it had gone forward, they would have had the ability to remotely activate and use any infected computer. They said they were going to try to "sell" the computing power of all those computers to various kinds of research projects that needed extra computing power. An uproar was stirred and the plan was dropped.

Spyware IS bad. And you SHOULD care.

Hurricane · January 19, 2003, 06:16

I also switched a while ago, and Spybot rules! It is also much much faster than Ad-Aware.

alva · January 19, 2003, 06:44

How come there is no law against this btw?

DRoseDARs · January 19, 2003, 06:48

Alva, at least in the United States our Congress IS working on legislation, but it's slow-going. Hopefully SOMETHING will be passed by the Republican-controlled Congress this session...even though they'll probably try to find some way to make it favor their campaign contributors...

Rogan Josh · January 19, 2003, 07:26

Where can I get Kazaa lite? I used to have it but something got corrupted and it stopped working - and then I couldn't remember where I got it....

Skanky Burns · January 19, 2003, 07:27

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&i...8&q=kazaa+lite

FrustratedPoet · January 19, 2003, 07:42

I downloaded and ran SpyBot. It came up with a list of files from Adobe Acrobat, MSIE, Office etc...
Should I 'fix' these? They don't appear harmful ... would they stop the parent program from working?

alva · January 19, 2003, 07:52

AFAIK these file should stay.

FrustratedPoet · January 19, 2003, 07:53

That's what I thought so I left them alone for the time being.

Skanky Burns · January 19, 2003, 07:55

Its probably catching the "integration with ie" stuff that allows you to (for example) view pdf's inside of ie using acrobat. See if the website has any information about these products, but if you can't find any information, leave them be.

alva · January 19, 2003, 07:57

BTW, there is a kazaa lite ++ too. Sets you as 'supreme being'

Zopperoni · January 19, 2003, 08:15

This is exactly what I've been saying all the time in this thread.

Ad-Aware's been crap since August last year.

Urban Ranger · January 19, 2003, 12:17

How could anybody gets infected by spyware is beyond me

Dis · January 19, 2003, 14:39

spyware is sneaky. it is quite easily to get spyware ya know. I can get it just by posting at bulletin boards like Apolyton. I don't know how they can do it with my firewall, but they do.

Worthingtons · January 21, 2003, 07:20

Ah, wasnt aware of all that stuff Asher. I am now the Proud owner of Spybot S&D

Just doing the scan and it's already found 3 screens of stuff!! didnt realise i has so much shoot on my PC

, and that'll clear quite a lot of space for someone with a 4mb hard drive!

Hurricane · January 21, 2003, 08:58

Quote:

Originally posted by Rothy
Ah, wasnt aware of all that stuff Asher. I am now the Proud owner of Spybot S&D

Just doing the scan and it's already found 3 screens of stuff!! didnt realise i has so much shoot on my PC

, and that'll clear quite a lot of space for someone with a 4mb hard drive!

Hmmm. I didn't know you could get Internet browsers for MS-DOS.

Caligastia · January 21, 2003, 11:15

Thanks for the info Ixnay.

SlowwHand · January 21, 2003, 12:07

Worse than Ad-Aware, is imesh.

Why don't one of you start a general Crappy Program thread?

kring · April 10, 2003, 04:23

Ad aware 6.0 is out now, and is updated regularly.

I use both adaware and Spybot since they can catch what the other one misses.

Frankychan · April 10, 2003, 04:40

jeez, I didn't even know what spyware did. You guys really helped me out...thanx!

I'm downloading Spybot SD now.

thanx again guys!

Kudo's!