Re: Results of using Spybot S&D, AdAware, and CWSShredder

From: Robert Tuck (robertt_at_SPAMMENOT.com)
Date: 02/03/04 

Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 10:45:51 -0800

Spybot will come up with a huge list, and not everything it lists is
something you want to delete.

"billw1701" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:88d601c3ea03$6f09f1b0$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> Last Saturday I took copies of AdAware, SpyBot S&D and
> CWSShredder to my sister's and ran them on her Windows 98
> box. Shredder fixed one regestry key, AdAware found over
> 200 "objects" and SpyBot found over 600 problems. I let
> each program do it's thing and then rebooted. Although
> windows booted just fine and everything seemed to be in
> order, However when I tried to install ZoneAlarm, it
> caused an error message that said some file was missing.
> (I don't remember which one.) I then tried to run Word and
> got another message about a different file being missing.
> Every program on her computer was messed up. I could not
> even get to System Information to try to run the System
> File Checker.
>
> I finally ened up doing a wipe of the hard drive and
> installed Windows ME which was the most recent OS her
> system would take without a major upgrade. It is working
> fine.
>
> I wonder what I should have done differently though. Is it
> possible the Ad and Spy removers were too much for her
> system, or could her system have been so compromised that
> there was no fixing it?
>
> Just courious.
> Bill

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