[dba-Tech] Counter Spy

Jon Tydda jon at tydda.plus.com
Sun Jun 3 15:53:06 CDT 2007


Right, I ran Counter Spy first this week, before any of the other
anti-spyware scans that I do... It found and removed 12 files, but I'm
running Ad-Aware now, and it's found another 16, and hasn't finished yet...

I'm thinking that you can't leave it all to one (or maybe even two) programs
to clean your pc for you. I think they all look at different areas of your
pc, and clean up different things.

So I'll stick with Ad-Aware and Spybot, and Counter Spy, AND Zone Alarm (cos
that found some too).

Ah well :-)


Jon

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Bartow
Sent: 30 May 2007 20:16
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Counter Spy

The X-Cleaner
http://www.spywareinfo.com/xscan.php

and AVG online Anti-Spy scanner:
http://www.ewido.net/en/onlinescan/

are good double checkers for CounterSpy. They don't have to be installed and
clean what they find (unlike many "free" scanners).


-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin at
Beach Access Software
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 10:21 AM
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Counter Spy

I'm getting the impression that Counter Spy is the pack leader at the
moment, based on our collective experience.  I tried it - it found a couple
of innocuous things.  But I didn't compare to Adaware or Spybot.  I sure
would like to be able to run one program instead of three or four.  I'm on
the 15 day trial.  Looks like I may have to go for it.

Rocky
 




  
 

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 8:04 AM
To: dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Counter Spy

Hi Jon

It found three nasties:
  Trojan.Unclassified.gen
  Look2Me
  Inlook Express
and one harmless:
  Weatherbug

Spybot S&D found none of these.
The trial license for TrojanHunter has expired. Wonder what it would have
found; it used to find "anything" but I haven't used it for a while.

/gustav


>>> Jon.Tydda at alcontrol.co.uk 30-05-2007 15:00 >>>
Dan

I've used:

Spybot 1.4
Ad-Aware 1.06
Zonealarm Pro (With Anti-Spyware)
Mischel Trojan Hunter 4.2
Spy Sweeper
Panda Online ActiveScan Pro
AVG Pro

Scared you yet? :-)


Jon

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Waters [mailto:dwaters at usinternet.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 1:38 PM
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Counter Spy


Jon & Lembit,

What were you using previously that did not find the keylogger or the Trojan
downloaders?

Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jon Tydda
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 8:04 AM
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Counter Spy

Yeah, it found some trojan downloaders on mine, which was kinda scary!


Jon

-----Original Message-----
From: Lembit Soobik [mailto:lembit.dbamail at t-online.de]
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 12:48 PM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Counter Spy


I downloaded and installed it.
It found WinControl, a Keylogger!

Thanks a lot, Jon.

Lembit

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bobby Heid" <bheid at sc.rr.com>
To: "'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'" 
<dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 2:14 AM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Counter Spy


Ok Jon,

I bought it on your recommendation.  It better be good!  LOL.

Bobby

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com 
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jon Tydda
Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2007 6:46 PM
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Subject: [dba-Tech] Counter Spy

I've just downloaded and installed Counter Spy - £15 for 3 years worth
of
updates was too silly a price to pass up. This evening, I'd run Spybot
1.4,
Ad-Aware 1.06, ZoneAlarm's AS tool and diskclean before I ran Counter
Spy.
it picked up 16 items that needed treating.



It's good - runs nice and small in the background, even on my E6600
Core 2
Duo with 2gb RAM ;-)



I'm kinda worried as to how long some of these things have been on my
system
though, although I've only had this new build installed for just over
a
month, it picked up things in the windows folder on the old hard drive.
who
knows what's been allowed to happen? Scary stuff!

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