I play on many online poker rooms and I'm trying to figure out if any of them have installed spyware on my computer. So far I have tried ad-aware, bazooka, and zone labs (the free version). Are there any other free spyware programs you would recommend? It seems the bazooka scanner is pretty clueless. The zone labs scanner picks up things that ad-aware doesn't find, but then asks you to buy the full version before it would remove the stuff for you.
Microsoft Anti Spyware CW Shredder Ad-Aware Spybot Search & Destroy are the ones I use, but thanks to smarter surfing, I rarely have any spyware these days.
If you use Spybot (which everyone should), make sure to turn on the teatimer which blacklists alot of the more well known spyware apps.
You should use more than 1. Microsoft Anti Spyware Ad-Aware Spybot Search & Destroy and Spyware Blaster to help stop them from getting on the machine in the first place. I haven't gotten spyware on my machine in forever. Just make sure you keep whatever you use up-to-date and you run them regularly (at least once a week, but maybe even 2-3 times a week).
What Dr of Dunk said. Also make sure you have a true virus scanner, like McAfee or Norton (NOT both ). Having CWShredder doesn't hurt, and neither does AIMFix for that nasty AIM virus that's been going around.
Here are a couple I use that haven't been mentioned yet: hijackthis - be careful though, cause you don't want to use this if you don't know what you're doing ewido - I just used the free trial version recently, and it seemed to have gotten rid of the stupid nail.exe trojan.
Wow thanks guys! I just tried Microsoft and Spybot and cleaned out a bunch of crap. I'll try the other suggestions later tonight. Thanks!
\ microsoft is beta as far as i recall, and its too annoying because it tries to take control of the system in too many damn ways. i like spybot and adaware, tho adaware freezes on me sometimes. try Spyware Doctor, one that i really liked, but it was a trial version.
I agree, but it's not too hard to neuter. Just make sure everything is disabled in Options -> Settings, disable the scheduled scan (Tools -> Spyware Scan -> Manage Spyware Scan Schedule), and then use msconfig (Start menu -> Run -> msconfig -> Startup) to disable "gcasServ." It's kinda dumb that it seems like using msconfig is the only way to stop it from coming up on startup, but it works nonetheless.
