Martin L Posted February 21, 2005 Posted February 21, 2005 Hey,i would like to have some good alternatives for antispyware programs, i am currently using microsoft antispyware but i have the feeling it's not recognizing all the spywares...let me know people
firefoxthebomb Posted February 21, 2005 Posted February 21, 2005 Well I have been using Spybot search and destroy and also Adaware SE, and the new Microsoft Antispy. Out of all three Microsoft seems to catch the most for me.
lilweirddude Posted February 21, 2005 Posted February 21, 2005 i just use spybot and adawareeven with those, i barely scan anymore unless i have suspicionsjust browse safely
Jeremy Posted February 22, 2005 Posted February 22, 2005 There's a thread somewhere in this section of MSFN that shows the results of the spyware appz. Out of ALL of them, M$ gets the most.
Tarun Posted February 22, 2005 Posted February 22, 2005 There's a thread somewhere in this section of MSFN that shows the results of the spyware appz. Out of ALL of them, M$ gets the most.<{POST_SNAPBACK}>They also have a lot of false positives.You can't just use one single application. Currently the best to use (as of this post) are CWShredder 2.13, Ad-Aware SE 1.05 Personal, Spybot 1.3.1TX.MS Antispy has far too many problems and false positives.
Martin Zugec Posted February 22, 2005 Posted February 22, 2005 Dont agree... Spybot and Adware were quite good, but they cant be compared with MSAS... I was making report for my company (half or one year ago) and I recommended Giant AntiSpyware (now MSAS) 1.) concept of ActiveAgents is much better then usuall realtime protection and much better then SpywareGuard (because of problems with laws)2.) concept of SpyNet is GREAT idea and even now U can see results. It is quite similar to bayesian method in filtering spam.About false positives - NEVER meet any one. I had few problems that MSAS thought that srvany or srvinst from resource kit were malware programs, but I must say that they R often used to this kind of actions...What do U mean under problems? Also quite interesting (but without future ) are products from InterMute
MikeO Posted February 22, 2005 Posted February 22, 2005 I use Hitman Pro works great. Only problem is it't in Dutch.
Zxian Posted February 22, 2005 Posted February 22, 2005 Ad-Aware SESpybot Search&DestroySpywareBlasterCWShredderOn top of that you shouldn't need much else.
Tarun Posted February 22, 2005 Posted February 22, 2005 Dont agree... Spybot and Adware were quite good, but they cant be compared with MSAS... I was making report for my company (half or one year ago) and I recommended Giant AntiSpyware (now MSAS) 1.) concept of ActiveAgents is much better then usuall realtime protection and much better then SpywareGuard (because of problems with laws)2.) concept of SpyNet is GREAT idea and even now U can see results. It is quite similar to bayesian method in filtering spam.About false positives - NEVER meet any one. I had few problems that MSAS thought that srvany or srvinst from resource kit were malware programs, but I must say that they R often used to this kind of actions...What do U mean under problems? Also quite interesting (but without future ) are products from InterMute<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Spybot adds immunizations to IE to help protect the browser from potentially harmful items (SearchSquire is a perfect example). After Immunizing, then running MSAS it would catch SearchSquire as a problem. It is not a problem as it was added to a list to protect IE. I found this by after letting MSAS "fix" this problem, then running Spybot's Immunization again, that it would say 1 object not protected (something like that). MSAS is far from perfect and needs a TON of work before I would recommend it. I've discussed this with many other PC techs and they agree with the fact that MSAS has problems and false positives. It's average, but you can use other items that can get the job done without messing with other applications (Example above on how MSAS would remove some protections that Spybot added). I'll wait for MS to improve and fix MSAS, -IF- they do. But for now I do not recommend it.Ad-Aware SESpybot Search&DestroySpywareBlasterCWShredderOn top of that you shouldn't need much else.<{POST_SNAPBACK}>I fully agree Zxian. In fact, on my website the "AllApps" package that I host currently contains the following items: CWShredder 2.13, AdAware SE Personal 1.05, Spybot 1.3, Spybot 1.3.1TX (Features the DSO Exploit fix), CCleaner 1.17.090, and Hijack This 1.99.0. That's all you need.
Martin Zugec Posted February 22, 2005 Posted February 22, 2005 Immunization is based on adding "killbit" to virtual ActiveX - if any antispyware SW is setting this, it is in fact creating virtual activex object.... BTW MSAS dont detect this kind of immunization - I am using my corporate killbit settings and never got problems with MSAS... R U sure it wasnt problem of spybot instead of MSAS (e.g. setting more than only killbit)?For me the biggest problem of MSAS is lack of corporate monitoring/updating/configuration... Hope so they will soon change it
sonu27 Posted February 22, 2005 Posted February 22, 2005 For me it has to be Ad-Aware and HijackThis.
Macstorm Posted February 28, 2005 Posted February 28, 2005 Ad-Aware & Spybot.I'll install MS antispyware when official release
KoolDrew Posted March 3, 2005 Posted March 3, 2005 Microsofts Anti-spyware is the best. It has the best detection rate and its real time protection works very well. That along with an alternative browser, ad-aware and SpywareBlaster is good.
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