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patrick6
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04 Apr 2008, 12:59 pm

What is the best adware and spyware removal program?



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04 Apr 2008, 4:12 pm

Theres not really any best ones since I manually remove viruses/spyware but a few good ones are Ad-Aware, Spybot Search & Destroy and something called Hi-Jack this (wouldnt use it unless you know what to delete).



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04 Apr 2008, 9:32 pm

pat666rick wrote:
What is the best adware and spyware removal program?


Linux. :wink:



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04 Apr 2008, 9:57 pm

Heres some advice from our great father. Ad-Aware and Spybot are the best overall for newbie computers users.[ Spybot got ranked one of the best tech products in the world by PCWorld magazine along with Netscape, The Oringinal Non-AOL Crapware that Netscape is now.]



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04 Apr 2008, 10:11 pm

Regedit, Windows Explorer, Command Prompt, some Sysinternals utilities and a bit of knowledge. That's all I use to remove spywares and viruses.

Though, if you like something more "famous", I recommend Ad-Aware.



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04 Apr 2008, 10:20 pm

Stay away from Ad-aware its garbage, the best is Spybot SD, and its free
heres the url http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html



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04 Apr 2008, 11:06 pm

spudnik wrote:
Stay away from Ad-aware its garbage, the best is Spybot SD, and its free
heres the url http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html



The Old Adware[ Ad-Aware SE] is pretty good with Adware. I however wouldn`t even touch Ad-Aware 2007. For a free program Ad-Aware SE is pretty good.



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05 Apr 2008, 12:37 am

Ad-aware I've always found to be pretty useless. I swear by Xoftspy.



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05 Apr 2008, 3:46 am

tomadao wrote:
Regedit, Windows Explorer, Command Prompt, some Sysinternals utilities and a bit of knowledge. That's all I use to remove spywares and viruses.

Though, if you like something more "famous", I recommend Ad-Aware.


Agreed :P



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05 Apr 2008, 9:15 am

AVG, easily.
The Free Version is very, very good.


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05 Apr 2008, 1:31 pm

tomadao wrote:
Regedit, Windows Explorer, Command Prompt, some Sysinternals utilities and a bit of knowledge. That's all I use to remove spywares and viruses.


Beyond those, sometimes I use WinHex to dissecate and extract strings from suspect binaries, too.

A GOOD virus remover doesn't need any antivirus, antispyware, antitrojan, antiadware, anti-so-and-so, anti-fuc***so... Just knowledge and the tools I mentioned.