[dba-Tech] Counter Spy

Yeah, I hate that. My friends are always telling me about the "new great
anti-spyware product" that they downloaded form bit-torrent the night
previously. I tell them to run one of the others as well, and they're always
surprised to see that this new one has been detected as being very dodgy...


Jon

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Bartow
Sent: 04 June 2007 21:44
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Counter Spy

Those cookies are hard to keep up with :o) 

BTW, look for the actual file or registry settings that AS programs detect.
The ones you've mentioned I trust but some of the ones I've tested some
"free" downloads that have given false reports in an attempt to get you to
purchase them. I've dug through the registry looking for the supposed keys
they find or the file system for the cookies. Nowhere to be found. You've
probably run into too. Free but they don't do anything but find stuff and
nag you into buying the full version. Grrr.

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jon Tydda
Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2007 3:53 PM
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Counter Spy

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 :-)

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