Spybot has served me well, but... 8

[DColcl]

..I would like to know what other free, downloadable programs you techies use to combat this stuff. Or is Spybot pretty much it out there?

Dan

 

[ScottCr]

I've been using Windows Defender (Beta 2) for a while now and that works pretty well. Not sure it's a direct replacement for spybot, but it 'catches' malware and adware.

http://scottcross.blogspot.com

Windows and NT Admin.

 

[technome]

Ewido finds stuff the others miss.


........................................
Chernobyl disaster..a must see pictorial

http://www.kiddofspeed.com/default.htm

 

[DColcl]

Thanks Scott and Tech. I'll be heading to the office today and while I'm there I'll be looking into these products.
I kinda figured that there must be other software, like Spybot, that techs use.

My goal in the next month is to compile a list of "Must have software" that I as a blosseming tech to have on me at all times; either on a USB pen drive or burned onto CDs.
Any thoughts?

Dan

 

[markdmac]

I also like defender. Always good to do cross checks every now and then with another product. No single anti-spyware program will catch 100%.

As my backup program I like to use AdAware from lavasoft.

http://www.lavasoft.de.

defender is available here

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/support/howto/download.mspx

I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark

 

[ScottCr]

Angry IP Scan
JDiskReport
TCPView
RegMon
FileMon
Office File Viewers
XP Virtual CD-Rom
GPMC
Win 2003 support tools

http://scottcross.blogspot.com

Windows and NT Admin.

 

[ScottCr]

oh and........

setacl
dumpsec
winiso
winrar
Windows 2003 CD for the recovery console


I could go on and on. lol.

http://scottcross.blogspot.com

Windows and NT Admin.

 

[DColcl]

man, I'm like a kid in a candy store! Going to look all those programs up and burn my little Techie disc soooon!

Thank you all!


Dan

 

[jamesp81]

I generally use a combination of Spybot and Ad-aware to root out adware and spyware and I also use Microsoft's tool to catch anything these miss. For the really bad ones that are hard to find, I use HijackThis to read my registry and for the truly evil ones, I use LSPFix to knock out any LSP's that get in my machines.

I'd strongly reccomend you keep HijackThis and LSPFix on your techie disk. They don't actually remove any malware, but they give you the ability to find malware yourself that these other progs may miss.

 

[DColcl]

Excellent. Thank you, James.

 

[PalmTest]

Hi DColc,

your candystore can be visited on the Internet!
For the search for some usefull freestuff I always look if Snapfiles has it (in store) for me.

http://www.snapfiles.com/Freeware/categories/Security-Privacy/

http://www.snapfiles.com/Freeware/categories/Networking/

HTH

 

[DColcl]

Very nice, Palm! Thank you.

Dan

 

[Eddie100]

Try this web site for combatting viruses, and ware products.

http://castlecops.com/

Use Spywareblaster as an inoculation which Spybot also has an immunization feature for inoculation.

Also try CrapCleaner and Cleanup4.0, Be careful with these with Windows 98 and previous OS's.

Also delete all of your *.tmp files by typing at the command prompt of c:\ the following: del *.tmp /s
You may and can do this in safe mode.
[PC3]