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Title: ad-aware
Post by: videoholic on June 18, 2003, 04:46:03 AM

Where can I get this program?  I can\'t find it on download.com and I don\'t know who makes the darn thing.  I have that stupid Gator Coporation spyware crap embedded and I can\'t get it out.  Kind of like my case of herpes.  Did I say that?

Title: ad-aware
Post by: mm on June 18, 2003, 04:50:19 AM

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/

Title: ad-aware
Post by: JBean on June 18, 2003, 05:11:57 AM

get spybot too..it catches a few spyware programs that ad-aware misses (for that extra clean feeling)

http://spybot.eon.net.au/index.php?lang=en&page=download

Just so you know, they update ad-aware and spybot weekly...so don\'t let your updates fall too far behind.

Title: ad-aware
Post by: GigaShadow on June 18, 2003, 08:15:55 AM

Exactly... get both they pretty much cover everything when run back to back.

Title: ad-aware
Post by: Kurt Angle on June 18, 2003, 10:13:39 AM

I hate Gator, it downloads itself onto your computer just by visiting certain sites. Comet Cursor is also spyware, make sure you delete that if you have it.

Title: ad-aware
Post by: JBean on June 18, 2003, 11:37:36 AM

my wife used to click yes on almost every popup ad install window, and my computer ran slow as shit.  I ran ad-aware and spy-bot and they found nearly 100 pieces of spyware on my computer!

I run it once a week now and it still finds like 3-5 spyware programs....I hate that crap.

Title: ad-aware
Post by: politiepet on June 18, 2003, 01:45:16 PM

100? pfff....I got 153 at the first check

Title: ad-aware
Post by: videoholic on June 18, 2003, 05:26:30 PM

I had 290 problems.  Most all of them wire Miner who makes that Gator program.

Do I need to run it on all of the login accounts or does it scan the entire system?

Title: ad-aware
Post by: GigaShadow on June 18, 2003, 06:26:00 PM

290 WTF!!!! it should take care of every account on the computer vid.  Also make sure you update Spybot Search and Destroy and also click the immunize button.

Title: ad-aware
Post by: KillaX on June 18, 2003, 06:41:40 PM

the only problme is with Gator, if you use Kazaa, Kazaa wont run w/o it......... please dont mod me for saying the dreaded K word!


:hat:ScottyJ:hat:

Title: ad-aware
Post by: videoholic on June 18, 2003, 07:32:51 PM

nah, I don\'t like kazaa.  I tried it for a week and I think it blows nuts.  At least for what I wanted it for.  I;m sure it\'s great for porn, etc. but whatever...

I put Spybot in and got a bunch of hits as well.  Them bastards.

Title: ad-aware
Post by: m22j on June 18, 2003, 09:10:08 PM

I never had a pop-up problem with my older computer.  But when I got my new computer a couple of months ago, I started to get pop-ups. I was about to go mad tell I found out about spybot and adaware!!

Title: ad-aware
Post by: Living-In-Clip on June 19, 2003, 12:22:13 PM

Actually, Kazzaa isnt even really good for p0rn. It\'s mostly small clips. Need to go to eDonkey or Newsgroups for the full p0rn movies...or so I\'m told.
:D

Title: ad-aware
Post by: politiepet on June 19, 2003, 01:27:54 PM

haha, yeah right

Title: ad-aware
Post by: Kurt Angle on June 20, 2003, 01:21:57 AM

I just installed spybot and found a few files, one was porntracker and the other xxxdialer. I can\'t imagine how I got those.;)

Title: ad-aware
Post by: videoholic on June 20, 2003, 03:15:50 AM

spybot is consantly popping up with warnings now.  Amazing how much spyware is out there.

Title: ad-aware
Post by: politiepet on June 20, 2003, 04:32:51 AM

wow, I just ran ad-aware on my parents computer

it found close to 500 objects

Title: ad-aware
Post by: JBean on June 20, 2003, 04:54:53 AM

damn! :eek:

That\'s a lot of spyware!!!

Title: ad-aware
Post by: m22j on June 22, 2003, 06:21:54 PM

I have ad-aware and spybot but I still keep getting pop-ups. What else can you do about the pop-ups?

Title: ad-aware
Post by: videoholic on June 22, 2003, 06:56:40 PM

Welp, I\'m formatting now.  Dang it takes forever to format.

Title: ad-aware
Post by: Mr. Kennedy on June 23, 2003, 03:14:06 AM

Ad-aware 6 & Pop-up Stopper do the job for me now.