Re: Adware and Spyware and Service pack 2
From: PA Bear (PABear_at_mvps.org)
Date: 09/29/04
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Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 05:55:08 -0400
Spyware Doctor may be "betrayware". At the very least, Spyware Doctor will
not remove anything even vaguely serious until you purchase it and subscribe
to the service. Why pay US$40/year for this tool when Ad-aware, Spybot and
a number of others offer more reliability *for free* (you can donate to
their creators)?
Both Ad-aware and Spybot create backups of anything you "fix" or changes you
make, for simple-as-pie "undoing": Hence, no need to format and reinstall
Windows! (Did I mention they're *free*?)
-- ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE), AH-VSOP WinXP SP2: What's New for Internet Explorer and Outlook Express http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sp2/ieoeoverview.mspx What You Should Know About Spyware http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/devioussoftware.mspx AumHa Forums http://forum.aumha.org Hazel wrote: > I installed Ad-aware and Spyware doctor on a friend's > machine (XP Proff) and to my horror once I ran and > removed items found on both the packages, windows would > not start but kept on restaring without booting me into > the desktop. After advice from the computer > manufacturers, I formatted the disk and reloaded the > entire system. As my friend has broadband, should I put > back these 2 software packages to protect the system? > Also, I was advised not to update to service pack 2 as it > was buggy and can interfere with your Internet > connection. Any thoughts on this please. > Kind regards. > Hazel
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