Spyware problems

[Saracen 16]

**W00t, 1,000th post**

 

Is it me or are spyware problems now escalating out of control??

 

I'm having to run a system scan every day without fail or my machine slows down to a halt, freezing every minute or so. Yesterday I found 27 spyware traces, today 40!! And whatever was in this bunch caused the extra annoying XP blue screen of death about 5 minutes after boot up!!

 

I don't even go around many sites, just stick to those I trust, yet it doesn't matter. This machine is a magnet beyond control. Thank god I have a good spyware removal utility otherwise I would have stuck a hammer through this machine by now :megafrown:

 

Of course it's now running as smoothly as like I have just formatted the hard disk.. but I'm not counting on that lasting 24 hours :roll:

 

How bad is your spyware magnet?

[Doctor Destiny 41]

It's not. I just keep it clean with Ad-Aware SE. My computer is by no means a fortress or a magnet.

[Thierry 0]

Same here, I keep it out all, I use Spyware Blaster to prevent it from getting in, and if something does get in I use Spybot Search and Destroy and Ad-Aware, never failed me. And the programs are all free-ware :wink:

[Sonic 296]

My system stays clean, the only thing Spybot ever finds are tracking cookies from banner ads etc...., but they aren't really harmful.

 

For system security I run these programs.

 

- Norton AntiVirus (weekly full system scans)

- ZoneAlarm Pro

- Spybot (scan once a once week)

- Adware (scan once a once week)

- HijackThis

 

Plus I keep all these programs updated as well.

 

C&C King, are using IE as your primary browser? Dump it and switch to Firefox.

[Saracen 16]

Been using Firefox since January, wouldn't use anything else :wink:

[chickendippers 1]

My XP gaming computer (which my littler brother uses a lot) has:

 

+ McAfee Virus Scan (has spyware scan built in)

+ Microsoft Anti-Spyware thing (scans and keeps spyware out)

+ Adaware SE (good scanner)

+ Spybot S&D (uses different scanning techniques to above 3 - just as double check. Also keeps spyware out)

+ Firefox

 

I run these occasionally (maybe once a month or less) it usually picks up a couple.

 

My 98SE website computer (which only I use) has the same as above excpet Microsoft's one. I don't get any spyware; none of the scans ever reveal any pieces of spyware

[Luk3us 63]

I'm going strong.. 3 Months no spyware whatsoever... (Cookies don't count...)

[Guest MadBadger]

i think some of my pcs powers gone via spyware but i cant find anything.

[Hans5849 0]

MS antispyware runs at like 4am and never finds anything

[Guest MadBadger]

how much for the pc Hans5849? im gona need a 3 gig for BF2 i know it the graphics cards 2 as good as mine as well, It got usb2 ports i couldnt see anything about that.

 

Anyone know if microsofts antispyware works?