Did you know that some spyware is bundled with over 400 different applications?

http://smh.com.au/articles/2002/06/12/1022...2982864714.html

 

As mentioned in the article, I recommend AdAware by lavasoft: http://www.lavasoft.de/

I found out that I had the aurate spyware one one of my systems when I saw some network traffic going to an odd port through the firewall. AdAware found it and killed it.

 

I've been using Adaware for awhile now. I learned about it from a past thread on this board actually! Man this place rocks!

 

My processor was working itself to death until I cleaned my hard drive. Spyware can really tie up your resources!!

 

I recommend using Spybot in conjunction with Ad-Aware.
Spybot picks up many things Ad-Aware misses & vice-versa. Just be careful with both not to delete anything pertinent.

 

I use kazaa and installed adware. When i used it, it detected cydoor. I deleted 4 cydoor files and now kazaa wont work, i got a warning message saying some components are missing. Anyone else experience and know what i can do?

 

Don't use kazaa, get kazaa-lite. It's kaza without the spyware.

http://www.kazaalite.com/

 

Lavaware is really good as is Kazaa Lite I have been using both for a while now.

 

Just to confirm...

I've been using ad-aware now for a month. I initially found over 175 spyware instances on my PC. Ad-aware cleaned them.

Then EVERY time I opened Kazaa 5 more instances came alive. Ad-aware always cleaned them. Since uninstalling Kazaa and installing Kazaa-Lite... no more Spyware.

 

Thanks for the info. I checked out the sites and put the Lavasoft software on my computer. Also loaded it for some at work. Useful stuff.