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Re: Calling All Computer Geniuses, Part II
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ad-aware is good i use that as well but you then have to rely on the user to update and scan (with the free version) spybot search & destroy is good for spyware because it has another utility called teatimer that monitors changes to you startup, homepage, regisrty etc.
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Re: Calling All Computer Geniuses, Part II
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That is true, but I've had Ad-Aware SE catch things that Spybot-S&D hasn't. Plus, Ad-Aware doesn't always have those 5 items (can't remember what they are) that you can never get rid of (and probably shouldn't!)
I should point out that I'm talking about SE, not Ad-Aware 6 or earlier.
arstechnica had a good article comparing various spyware removal/scanning programs.
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Re: Calling All Computer Geniuses, Part II
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yeah i use both. 5 things are some dso exploits.
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Right.. which aren't exploits, they're the recent items lists! It just seems to me that they could set that to ignore those fairly easily, and they just haven't done it.
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