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Title: Spywear ID and removal on our Puters
Post by: john durrill on December 26, 2002, 01:14:54 PM

Hey Guys,
my son just down loaded a tool for finding and removeing spywear. we
just rebuilt my HD and ran a check on it. the program found 132 bits
of spy stuff on a new install with all the addon's .
http://www.lavasoft.nu/index.html
hope this will help some folks,
John & Peter

Title: Spywear ID and removal on our Puters
Post by: RICHARD MORGAN on December 27, 2002, 01:01:59 AM

WHICH PROGRAM DID YOU INSTALL?

I WENT TO THE WEBSITE, BUT THEY HAVE MANY TO CHOOSE FROM.

Title: Spywear ID and removal on our Puters
Post by: john durrill on December 27, 2002, 07:22:13 PM

Richard,
you can get one at this web addy
http://spybot.eon.net.au/index.php?lang=en&page=download
the other program we used is AD-Aware
at this web addy http://www.lavasoft.nu/downloads.html
we used both and each found some the other missed.
JOhn & Peter

Title: Spywear ID and removal on our Puters
Post by: RICHARD MORGAN on December 27, 2002, 09:39:54 PM

Hello,

Thank you for the quick response.

I will add this to my "to do" list.

There is probably many things dropped into a computer I am not aware of yet.

This information is most helpful.

Title: Spywear ID and removal on our Puters
Post by: john durrill on December 27, 2002, 11:35:01 PM

I think this is the major way we get unwanted e-mails and the spamers get us on lists
hope it does help.
John

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