[dba-Tech] Spybot S&D 1.4 review

That's why I use Giant as well as Spybot, as well as Ad-Aware... Spybot is
great, but there is no single product that finds and removes everything.


Jon

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Sent: 21 June 2005 20:36
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Spybot S&D 1.4 review


John,

Sounds good.

But after reading the heavy praise over Norton's -- mostly over the
interface and ease of use -- I was concerned with this:

>In tests, Spybot missed two out of three of the commercial spy packages I
>planted for it to find. (Norton's Internet Security 2005 AntiSpyware
>Edition found two of the three, but could only remove one.) The disturbing
>thing is that Spybot knows about one of the two programs it didn't detect
>at all: spyPC (the program neither Norton nor Spybot found) is listed in
>Spybot's keylogger programs, which users can check off to exclude from
>searches. Nobody excluded it, but Spybot didn't find it. And while Spybot
>found Guardian Monitor, the program Norton picked up and identified but
>could not remove, Spybot found it only by its appearance in the list of
>running processes.

Bob

At 6/21/2005 11:11 AM, you wrote:
>FYI
>
>http://www.internetweek.com/164900921#_
>
>John B.




Bob Geldart             BGeldart at verizon.net
Maynard, MA
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