[Dranon]

Anyone got a good suggestion for removing spyware without reinstalling Windoze and such?

The last day or so i'm starting to get popups that advertise spyware removal crap!!!!

Fecking annoying.

Must have hit a site yesterday that installed it, past my firewall and anti virus software....

[Grey Wolf]

Spybot Search and Destroy works quite well for this purpose.

[Solatar]

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/ -Spybot
http://www.lavasoft.com/ - Adaware

EDIT: I would recommend a clean install of Windows if possible, I did a few weeks ago and it runs like a dream...

[Dranon]

Originally posted by Grey Wolf
Spybot Search and Destroy works quite well for this purpose.

I installed this last night, and updated it, but it didn't help...

I hate to have to reinstall windoze... friggin spyware....

[Grey Wolf]

Have you tried HijackThis?

[Kie99]

Go to microsoft.com and download their anti-spyware (BETA) program

[Dranon]

I might do that if it persists.  Just installed Ad-Aware and it picked up some stuff that Spybot missed.  Hopefully that fixed it.  Thanks guys.

[Dranon]

Think i found the site that did it, as my firewall picked it up this time....

[Solatar]

You aren't using Internet Explorer are you?

[Scuddie]

If you are, it isn't good enough.  Get the Maxthon shell, and enjoy the extras of firefox, without the crappy layout.

[Grey Wolf]

Crappy layout in Firefox? I'm really not sure what you could not like about it's layout. What, do you miss the random buttons that appear on your toolbar in IE from installing various apps?

[Dranon]

I tried firefox... didn't like it too much, but i might go back to it after this annoyance...

[Solatar]

I love Firefox...got the weather and media player controls right next to the URL bar.

I've had no spyware problems since I reinstalled XP and not touched IE.

[IceFire]

Originally posted by Dranon
I tried firefox... didn't like it too much, but i might go back to it after this annoyance...

What didn't you like...lots of it can be customized

[Grug]

Yay, Pro-Firefox!

Actual Story: "I always used to have troubles with IE when surfing the internet. But now that I have Firefox, I'm never going back!"


"It's great, you'll never want another Internet Browser again!"

Firefox. Making internet browsing safer and more enjoyable, for you.

[Dranon]

I'll give it another try...

[Clave]

What is spyware?

[IceFire]

Originally posted by Grug
Yay, Pro-Firefox!

Actual Story: "I always used to have troubles with IE when surfing the internet. But now that I have Firefox, I'm never going back!"


"It's great, you'll never want another Internet Browser again!"

Firefox. Making internet browsing safer and more enjoyable, for you.

Firefox 0.3 was very disappointing but I got back to it on version 0.7 and I've been with it ever since.  Faster, more stable, and less susceptible to spyware than IE.  A billion times better.

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Clave
What is spyware?

Trenchcoat, hat and dark glasses.  Or a tuxedo in casinos.

[Clave]

Ohh..

It must be a PC thing then, like viruses...