anyone tried giant anti-spyware?

[lilweirddude]

i ran into it while surfing the web and was wondering if it's any good

[towhom]

It works great... i thought i had a clean system, and it found a possible hijacker...

[lilweirddude]

hm...maybe i should consider trying this

[Slimy]

works well over here too! pretty **** good layout

but don't run it as your only protection

[KoolDrew]

All you really need is ad-aware, spybot S&D and hijackthis and yuou will never have spyware problems, At least i don't

Alos use a browser like Opera or Firefox and maye a program like SpywareBlaster

[Slimy]

unfortunately spybot just doesn't cut it anymore and u might want to switch it up with giantantispyware...

[KoolDrew]

That is why I also use hijackthis. I never have spyware problems and I won't switch until I actually do have spyware problems

[lilweirddude]

i currently dont have any problems with ad-aware and spybot either but its better to be safe than sorry

[Jito463]

www.spywarewarrior.com is a great resource for checking various different spyware products out. He has a list of "Rogue Anti-Spyware" products that either rip-off/clone popular products (such as Ad-Aware and Spybot) or that are adware/spyware supported themselves (making their usefulness dubious at best) or that have a consistent record of false positives making them unreliable. Very handy resource. Any time I hear about a new product, I usually check up on it there. Giant Anti-Spyware did rank in their trusted section. Of course, then again so did PestPatrol, and their free "online scanner" found Virtual Bouncer on my machine after an up-to-date scan with both Ad-Aware SE 1.05 and Spybot S&D 1.3 found absolutely nothing on my machine. Not to mention that I know about VB and there is no way in the world I would allow it on my computer. So I guess you can draw your own conclusion from that.

Edited October 18, 2004 by Jito463

[Andrew932]

I use Ad-Aware. Seems very good, but I have seen Giant Anti-Spyware on quite a few websites.

[Throckmorton3rd]

I've got "Giant Antispyware" on my machine and it seems to work realy well, I,ve also got the trial version of "Spy Blocks" and when I do a scan it finds a huge number of things/problems on my system that the others dont, I was wondering if anyone else has this on theyre machine and does it work>??

[dutchy304]

This is a test result from a guy over at dslreports. Very cool !

Check it out. Test Results

[CoffeeFiend]

I just tried it for the first time - and it also will be the last.

It seems to detect every app that *could* possibly bundle adware as adware itself. Like, my registered FlashGet is detected as a "elevated" spyware threat, when in fact it's not a threat at all... (a few occurences of that)

Another big problem: every remote control app you have will be reported too. Dameware, VNC (diff versions too), RAdmin, ... you name it, it's all spyware now!

Plus, it's super slow, big bulky interface, kinda backwards... Don't care for it. Plus, it's a memory hog (over 20MB).

No more of that for me thanks. I'm staying with my old spy sweeper / spybot / ad aware trio (Plus, since I use Firefox and not IE - I hardly ever get any spyware anymore...)

[Doggie]

agree with u crahak, i use 2;

Lavasoft Ad-aware SE Personal

Spybot Search & Destroy

they do a good job

[CoffeeFiend]

Not to mention, if it wanted to pick insafe or "potentially dangerous" apps, it forgot to find and delete the most dangerous one that gets all that spyware on your PC in the first place: IE

I'd much rather see that one gone than my other software which is actually useful. If it wasn't for windows update, there would be no sign of it on my pc...