WARNING: Fake Anti-Spyware, Pop-ups

[RedFury]

Are you talking about Hijack This! by chance?

[sr71000]

on my site i have a list of programs i've tested and confirmed with the guys here that are some great anti-crapware programs. I also link to a site that lists a bunch of known fake anti-crapware programs that you should stay away from (btw...ad-aware and spybot together only detect about 50 to 60% of all the spyware out there. giant anti-spyware (now microsoft anti-spyware beta) was number one and webroot spysweeper was number two hope that helps!

[Bryco]

I have decided something..

When I win the lottery....

I will get the nerdiest freaking computer geeks on the face of this earth and have them design me a program and a virus. This program will detect when someones system dumps stuff onto your computer. Then the program will send a virus directly back to the system.

The virus will make a little pop-up window the says...

Busted plus dirty words blah blah blah.

And crash the harddrive.

Anyways I will make it a free program to all and we can stop retards who do this stuff.

This will all happen when I win the lottery!

[erhan28]

We know that this post is from last year 2004, lol

[amdkt7]

Is Ad-ware not free anymore? I can't find a free version on their web site or on download.com.

I got spy-bot, but Ad-ware was a favorite for me.

[Ryanoffski]

Originally Posted by amdkt7

Is Ad-ware not free anymore? I can't find a free version on their web site or on download.com.

I got spy-bot, but Ad-ware was a favorite for me.

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/fil...id,7423,00.asp

Adaware's site sends you to PCWorld. At the end of the article click on "Download"

[Micky758]

Ad-ware1.06:

http://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-SE-...ml?tag=lst-0-1

[sr71000]

ad-aware and spybot are not the end all fix all anti-spyware programs out there. these studies are a few months old, but at that time together they only caught about 76% fo the new spyware out. Giant spyware (now microsoft anti-spyware) was #1 and i believe it still is. If you can get microsoft anti-spyware i recommend it...if not then i recommend spyware doctor (free version is fine!). Lastly, I also recommend a-squared. As a side note the pesky stuff that these things can't remove can usually be nabbed by hijack this....all of these things can be found at my site.

[radio1_mike]

Originally Posted by Micky758

Ad-ware1.06:

http://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-SE-...ml?tag=lst-0-1

http://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-SE-...ml?tag=lst-0-1

Beat me to it!

[amdkt7]

Thanks for the help. It's really getting crazy, got to have 3 or 4 programs, not just one to clean it all up!