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sigma7 ([personal profile] sigma7) wrote2004-12-02 12:37 pm

Peekaboo

A PCWorld article analyzes commercial anti-spyware applications and the results are simply stunning. Of the seven applications that actually cost money, two added spyware to the computer in question, and one mistook a Windows signed driver directory as spyware and deleted it. None of them worked as well as Spybot Search & Destroy, which is free, but SS&D still works best in concert with Ad-Aware, also free. You get an inverse of what you pay for.

[identity profile] daethkow.livejournal.com 2004-12-02 08:07 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm having problems with SpyBot flaking out. It'll search and find all of these data miners, but when I hit "Fix problems" even if I uncheck all but one thing, it locks up.