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Old February 21st, 2005, 03:55 PM     #51 (permalink)
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Mike gave me this link for anti-spyware.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en



I am really surprised at how nice the Microsoft offering is.

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Old February 21st, 2005, 04:02 PM     #52 (permalink)
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Your second link leads to a a Yahoo mail login. I thought that I had posted the MS Antispyware link on the 2nd page of the thread already:

http://www.techimo.com/forum/showthr...30#post1358430
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Old February 21st, 2005, 08:28 PM     #53 (permalink)
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I hate when I do that.

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Old February 26th, 2005, 11:10 PM     #54 (permalink)
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I find Ad-Aware easy to use and eradicate spyware. When it comes to SpyBot, I have concerns whenever Registry entries show up as problems. (same concern whenever using any sort of registry cleaner) That is.......
Does the application (Spybot S&D in this case) ...remove the entire key and contents , or just the data or values at end of the string displayed?

IOW , is it generally safe to eliminate the items listed by SpyBot that exist in the registry?
I have ignored at least 6 that appear with each scan , which relate to my free version of Download Accelerator. I'm concerned it wont function if it cant run the ads , etc. Is there one type of registry entry in DAP that I should be concerned with , and allow S&D to remove?
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Old February 26th, 2005, 11:13 PM     #55 (permalink)
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(duplicate post....sorry)

(move down...tried to delete this post, but how?)

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Old February 26th, 2005, 11:15 PM     #56 (permalink)
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I exclude DAP items because they are not true malware. You should too.
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Old February 27th, 2005, 02:23 PM     #57 (permalink)
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...IOW , is it generally safe to eliminate the items listed by SpyBot that exist in the registry?
I have ignored at least 6 that appear with each scan , which relate to my free version of Download Accelerator. I'm concerned it wont function if it cant run the ads , etc. Is there one type of registry entry in DAP that I should be concerned with , and allow S&D to remove?

I've used Spy-Bot a little over two years now, on three WinXP Pro boxes. I have always allowed Spy-Bot to clean any registry entries it identified, and I have not had any problems. I can't offer advice re Download Accelerator, however, as I do not use that program nor others like it.
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Old February 27th, 2005, 03:49 PM     #58 (permalink)
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By the way - Spybot also blocks the Expedia.com domain as default. It drives a lot of people crazy.
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