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! _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. 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