Hi Cindy,
It's good that you run both SpyBot and Ad-aware, but it's important to
understand what they do. Both are designed primarily to deal with the bad
guys (those little buggers) after they are on your computer. The latest
version of SpyBot, 1.3, offers some protection from getting them but that's
not it's primary job. There is also a new version of Ad-aware. You can get
it here:
Ad-aware SE Personal Edition 1.02
http://tinyurl.com/yu6cm
There are many programs available for protection. Some you buy (you've
probably seen their popup ads) and some are free. Two of the better ones are
free and they work together very well, as does SpyBot and Ad-aware. No
program, or combination of programs, will protect you completely, but with
these two programs, SpyBot and Ad-aware usually only find a few tracking
cookies on my system. Here are the links for these:
SpywareGuard
http://wilderssecurity.net/spywareguard.html
SpywareBlaster
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
Have a good one...
Sven Swanson, Sr.
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Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 3:14 PM
Subject: [PCSOFT] Spybot & Ad-aware
Hi All,
I keep reading here where everyone advises the use of Spybot & Ad-aware on a
regular basis. I have both programs loaded on my work and home PC's and run
them regularly. But my question is, how do you keep all that spyware from
coming back over and over? Everytime I run them, the same stuff appears, I
delete them and they are back again the next time. So what good are the
programs? It seems I might as well just leave the little buggers on my
computer because I can't keep them away permanently! My work computer is
running Win2000 Pro, has DSL and is on a network. My home computer doesn't
have as much trouble with this as it is a stand alone PC running Win 98 with
dial up connection. Any help would be appreciated.
TIA
Cindy Sanderson
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