Re: ad aware and spybot - a waste of time???
From: eli (eli_yardena_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 06/25/03
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Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 10:12:30 +0200
thank you for your reply.
a word about spybot: it can imunize your computer at a manual given moment.
i downloaded IMesh and installed the program.
then i checked the machine using Ad-Aware and Spybot
only to discover 70 (!!!!) new spyware elements in my computer.
above all that, it took a re-boot and re-scan using the two detection
programs
to be able to delete all the remaining spyware that refused to leave in the
first go.
i still thing it's not very useful
its not all automatic and it doesn't protect you on its own.
i will try what you suggested.
thank you again
Eli
"Steven L Umbach" <n9rou@nsattbi.com> wrote in message
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> To reduce the spyware you need to configure your browser to have
> more secure settings. It is always a balance between convenience and
> security. By hardening your privacy/cookie handling settings and web
> content sites security levels you can drastically reduce your amount of
> spyware, etc. I put my privacy setting at high and then configure my often
> visited sites to be exempt from the default level. Then I set the security
> level for the 'internet zone' to high and put my trusted sites into the
> trusted site web content zone where I configure the security settings to
be
> a bit higher than default. That in conjunction with daily updated
antivirus,
> pop up stopper, and a firewall that also controls outbount access by port,
> protocol, ip address AND application [Kerio - free for personal use],
allows
> me to browse internet fairly well and safely without picking up a ot of
> junk. --- Steve
>
> "eli" <eli_yardena@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> > the problem with ad aware and with spybot is
> > they can only delete the spyware but they are unable to
> > prevent the spyware from accessing the computer in the first palce...
> > so after you have surfed the internet and all your surfing habits have
> been
> > recorded and transmitted without your knowledge or approaval
> > what is the use of deleting them in the end?
> > its like living in the desert and leaving all your widows open.
> > you can clean the dust all day - but if you are unable to close the
> windows
> > shut
> > the dust will always come in (not to mention the bugs and the
mosquitoes!)
> > Eli
> >
> >
>
>
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