Spywear ID and removal on our Puters

[john durrill]

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



 

[RICHARD MORGAN]

WHICH PROGRAM DID YOU INSTALL?

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

[john durrill]

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


 

[RICHARD MORGAN]

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.

[john durrill]

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