Re: AdAware vs. Spybot vs. Spyblaster

From: NeoSadist (neos@dist)
Date: 12/06/02 

From: "NeoSadist" <neos@dist>
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 23:06:38 -0700

>
> Hey, I was offering a suggestion too, I was not personally attcking you or
> your opinions. If it came off that way I apologise, although re-reading
my
> op, it doesn't seem to provoke the reaction it garnered from you. I have
> used Ad-Aware for years, and it works great. I have used Symantec
products
> since they owned ACT! (First ACT! -- remember that??). I was making the
> assertion based on the fact that a firewall alone wont stop spyware from
> getting on your system. One of my points that I should have been more
clear
> on is if all you do is want to remove spyware, it doesnt make much sense
to
> install a suite of utilities, when Ad-Aware works great, IMO. Admittedly,
I
> didnt know Symantec had a spyware removal tool. Does it have some sort of
> pattern update to detect new stuff?
>
> Hopfully this was snipped enough for the netequette kops .
>
>

Who cares about the nettiquette cops?
True, a firewall alone won't stop spyware. That falls under the "user is
stupid" section.
But hey, we're all human, so there's no 100% security to be found, good
point.
Still, using what I have would be smarter than downloading a 3rd program to
do something I can do with the other 2, one of which came with my machine.
But something that IS to be had from this, microsoft needs to offer more
controlls to internet explorer. Granted, not where ignorant newbies can
find them and screw up their own browser, then blame microsoft. (which, by
the way, whether microsoft is smart or not, I think about 33% of the blame
they catch is not actually their fault).
But anyways, for example, I'd like to prevent internet explorer from giving
out referrer information and such. I haven't yet found a way to do that.
NPF blocks that by default.

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