I knew this would happen; now that I have installed three new programs (HijackThis, SpywareGuard, and ID-Blaster Plus), I'm loaded with questions. For example, when running Hijack for the first time, I get a warning suggesting I show an expert my scan log before deciding what to fix and what to keep. So eenie, meenie, minie, moe, catch an expert by the toe --- since Clint suggested them, I'm sending him three preguntas with three attachments --- 1) the Ad-aware log, 2) the Hijack log, and 3) the Hijack warning.
And for Ben, yes, I have a very clean computer; every file has a reason for being here and each file is in its own place. Now if I can only clean up the thoughts in the head that's running this computer, they'd put a statue of me in Central Park with an inscription, "This guy has a clean head and a clean computer. So what's he doing in New York City!!! where there's so much more to do than clean, clean, clean.") ORIGINAL POSTING When everything is working fine, I often look for new ways of making trouble. I already have Ad-aware, Spybot, Shredder, and SpywareBlaster in my system and all is working well. Now here's a page loaded with tons of free and shareware spyware tools. http://majorgeeks.com/download.php?id=31 Anyone have thoughts on what is important to have and what can safely be ignored? And if any of the four I already have is unnecessary, feel free to let me know --- Harold FROM CLINT > I've said it many times before here, and I'll say it again: one of them will always find something the others will miss. You should also be using "HijackThis", and "SpywareGuard" (same site as Blaster). They haven't had any updates on it a year and half, but it's not that type of program per say. You can exe it when going to any "questionable" websites and it gives an added layer of protection against malware by looking for specific behavior, more-so that its definitions. > I don't have the link handy, but there is a website that lists BOGUS anti-malware programs, so you should search for those terms and similar and see if you can find it before installing any of these others. Probably a lot of the programs on that page ARE the bogus ones. They, themselves, actually add malware to your PC under the fraudulent guise of ANTI-malware. The ones on that page that I use (in addition to the obvious you and I have mentioned) are BugOff, HijackThis, CWShredder, SpySweeper, XP Anti-spy, and AdAware plugins. Careful with BugOff and XP Anti-spy since you can mess things up with them. FTR, I also use AdAware, SpyBot, SpywareBlaster & Guard, and ID Blaster. -- Clint FROM BEN > Harold, I thought just this morning that things had been sort of slow around here. I was going to write and suggest that you go on another file clean up campaign just for the sake of old times ;-) Trouble is you know too much about things now to mess it up. --- Ben Moore ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
