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Title: The best adware/spyware remover
Post by: Seed_Of_Evil on September 27, 2004, 11:05:13 AM: I installed yesterday a couple of programs in my PC and some of them should carry a ****ing adware module that was installed together with the application. Now my starting webpage is continuosly changed, new elinks appears in favourites, ad windows... this is a disaster. Could you tell me what\'s the best program to remove this shit? I have Search and Destroy but it seems not be able to uninstall this crap.

Thanx a lot.
Title: The best adware/spyware remover
Post by: fastson on September 27, 2004, 11:17:31 AM: Ah something similar happened to the other computer (which I never use anyways, but sometimes my brother does), I don’t know how but a lot of shit ended up on the system. The desktop was full of ad-crap and it was impossible to change back to the original startpage.. Ad-aware did not solve anything so we did a rollback in Windows.

Now everything works fine.
Title: The best adware/spyware remover
Post by: Seed_Of_Evil on September 27, 2004, 11:20:16 AM: There may be any good application for this out there... dont tell me there isnt :(
Title: The best adware/spyware remover
Post by: JBean on September 27, 2004, 11:32:33 AM: This program always does the job for me

click here (http://www.download.com/3000-2144-10045910.html?part=69274&subj=dlpage&tag=button)
Title: The best adware/spyware remover
Post by: Kurt Angle on September 27, 2004, 12:18:14 PM: Adan which version of Spybot do you have?

The reason I ask is that version 1.2 was recently upgraded to 1.3 final and it is much better.

I use this along with Ad-aware 6.0 and things have always been okay for me.

I did have a bad trojan at one time that needed these two programs plus another program called CWSshredder. CWS shreder is good for getting rid of some of the nastier ones that other programs can\'t fix.
Title: The best adware/spyware remover
Post by: NVIDIA256 on September 27, 2004, 03:53:22 PM: Ad-aware 6.0 In combination with Spybot has given me the best results.
Title: The best adware/spyware remover
Post by: mm on September 27, 2004, 03:59:26 PM: same
Title: The best adware/spyware remover
Post by: THX on September 27, 2004, 04:00:49 PM: me2
Title: The best adware/spyware remover
Post by: §ôµÏG®ïñD on September 27, 2004, 06:00:33 PM: pest patrol and spybot for me..
Title: The best adware/spyware remover
Post by: NVIDIA256 on September 27, 2004, 07:03:25 PM: pest patrol is another good one too
Title: The best adware/spyware remover
Post by: Paul2 on September 27, 2004, 09:26:37 PM: i used spybot and ad aware too...

so that makes me three?

:D

But, i do notice that it doesn\'t always entired get rid of all the horror viruses...nor does it fix some "weird stuff that start doing strange things to my computer"...

So, that mean i need to upgrade it or something to get rid of the newer viruses or something...

but so far so good...
Title: The best adware/spyware remover
Post by: Black Samurai on September 28, 2004, 07:14:34 AM: (https://psx5central.com/community/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.internetguncatalog.com%2Fpics%2F25125.jpg&hash=554b56da3172545cd7599bbba24df79c129684c5)

That should get the job done.
Title: The best adware/spyware remover
Post by: Seed_Of_Evil on September 28, 2004, 11:40:09 AM: Thanx a lot to all. Thanx to your advices I could remove (in part) this shit and now the system runs much better. ;)
Title: The best adware/spyware remover
Post by: Living-In-Clip on September 28, 2004, 04:36:22 PM: Just a bit of info for most of you all, if you run Panda anti-virus, it conflicts with a lot of Spyware remover programs and causes your PC to come up with a NT AUTHORITY /SYSTEM error.
Title: The best adware/spyware remover
Post by: Capcom on September 28, 2004, 04:39:57 PM: Panda is still the best antivirus out there. Please no dissing.

I would suggest ad-subtract pro. with IE6 in xp sp2 if you must run IE. Not one piece of spyware on the pc in over 6 months. Not even a tracking cookie.

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Originally posted by Living-In-Clip
Just a bit of info for most of you all, if you run Panda anti-virus, it conflicts with a lot of Spyware remover programs and causes your PC to come up with a NT AUTHORITY /SYSTEM error.
Title: The best adware/spyware remover
Post by: Living-In-Clip on September 28, 2004, 04:44:02 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Capcom
Panda is still the best antivirus out there. Please no dissing.

I would suggest ad-subtract pro. with IE6 in xp sp2 if you must run IE. Not one piece of spyware on the pc in over 6 months. Not even a tracking cookie.

Bah! No dissing? That thing caused me much heart-ache yesterday! I was blaming my error on Creative Labs, until you came over yesterday. :D

Still, I would imagine that will be fixed in a newer release.

I need to pick up that ad-subtract Pro.
Title: The best adware/spyware remover
Post by: Capcom on September 28, 2004, 05:02:51 PM: Lic no need if you are running firefox.

I really think the panda problem is the version you dled. It had more of an internet security thing going on. Total coverage or some bs.
Title: The best adware/spyware remover
Post by: Living-In-Clip on September 28, 2004, 07:00:08 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Capcom
Lic no need if you are running firefox.

I really think the panda problem is the version you dled. It had more of an internet security thing going on. Total coverage or some bs.

Maybe so . Either way, thanks for the help on trouble shooting the problem.

Oh and those 4.9 ATI drivers I installed apparently caused me to take quite a hit on Aquamark 3. According to the HardOCP forums the drivers help with DOOM 3, but other games / apps take a hit. Go figure.
:mad:

Ah, the beatuy of a new PC...
Go [size=18] APPLE [/size].

;)