SPYWARE

**gman** · 17th April 2005, 20:14

most of us surf the net inbetween riding and sleeping.
ive just downloaded an anti spyware program from the microsoft site.
its absolutely brilliant!!!

just go to www.microsoft.com
its right on the front page and if you just happen to be running a version of windows that fell of a back of a truck (god forbid

) dont worry.
start the process they call authenticity check and you get the option of skipping this and getting the download anyway!!

this is the best program yet ive tried and ive tried a few!!
im real careful what i download and now you dont have to download spyware it can attach itself to your pc just by visiting the stite too!!

just thought id share this with you guys/gals.

its also real easy to use too.
cheers

**Skyryder** · 17th April 2005, 20:45

Is it the beta version?

Skyryder

**Hitcher** · 17th April 2005, 20:47

Does it work against that cop in the gold Maxima?

**gamgee** · 17th April 2005, 20:51

i like adaware better, don't support micro$hite, www.getfirefox.com then you don't even need to worry about spyware, the only time i get spyware now is when i use exploder

**gman** · 17th April 2005, 22:11

ive got firefox.and still get it!!
yes its beta version

**Blackbird** · 18th April 2005, 07:53

Yep, the Microsoft anti-spyware that I downloaded a couple of weeks ago actually picked up something that Spybot didn't, but I still intend to run both of them periodically to be safe.

**XTC** · 18th April 2005, 09:08

Bugger doesn't work with windows ME....

**riffer** · 18th April 2005, 11:57

Originally Posted by XTC

Bugger doesn't work with windows ME....

Doesn't run under MacOs X Panther either...

**Lou Girardin** · 18th April 2005, 12:05

Originally Posted by Hitcher

Does it work against that cop in the gold Maxima?

For that you need Taxavoid 6.0 or Speedfree 1.3

**she_said** · 18th April 2005, 20:34

Ad-aware 6.0 seems to do the trick. its surprising how much crap u can get on your comp...

**bugjuice** · 18th April 2005, 20:35

what's a virus?

**dveus** · 18th April 2005, 20:40

Originally Posted by gamgee

i like adaware better, don't support micro$hite, www.getfirefox.com then you don't even need to worry about spyware, the only time i get spyware now is when i use exploder

I used to have the same attitude towards Microsoft, but there spyware software is actually quite good. I also spend alot of time fixing PC's for people that know very little about "spyware/adware/virus etc etc", and this little app is probably the best one out there for them.

**Ghost Lemur** · 18th April 2005, 20:53

Originally Posted by riffer

Doesn't run under MacOs X Panther either...

I have the same problem with SuSE...

**gamgee** · 18th April 2005, 21:13

Originally Posted by dveus

I used to have the same attitude towards Microsoft, but there spyware software is actually quite good. I also spend alot of time fixing PC's for people that know very little about "spyware/adware/virus etc etc", and this little app is probably the best one out there for them.

yeah but thats because they have access to there own flawed code so can do a lot the companies such as lavasoft can't, plus microsoft is well known to be the most bug prone OS developer in the world, pity stuff all games/ software works on macOS/ linux, and yeah i do quite a bit of repair work on pc's more hardware than software, but i still consider myself somewhat a microsoft pro, done a bit a regediting and that, works well, dad does the mechanic work, i do the technical/ geek work