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Death to Adware

Started by Jerry, 2003-05-20T10:21:30-05:00 (Tuesday)

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Jerry

Heard about this one on Tech TV. Seems to work pretty good so far.

It's called "Spybot - search & destroy". It hunts out adware and other software like trojan horses.

You can get it at: security.kolla.de

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Chris Swingler

Might as well point out another application in this genre. I used Lavasoft's Adaware (http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/) for a while before I found Spybot S&D.  Adaware seems more "idiot proof,"  you just have to push the "start" button and you're on your way.  I do like S&D better, though, since it does offer you a new %systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\HOSTS file, which resolves some commonly known ad servers to localhost instead of their intended destination, effectively blocking many ads.

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Christopher Swingler
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