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Fordtruckmaniac

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which combination of spyware programs?
« on: June 14, 2006, 04:36:28 PM »
On an old Windows 98SE computer with somewhat limited hardrive, memory and processor and so on. What mix of spyware programs would be good for not eating a lot of resources.

I have found the A2Squared on here. And it is definitely in the picture.  So A2Squared and Spybot or A2Sqaured and Adaware, and I will be using Avast for the Anti Virus.

It may have been me, But I thought A2 was better than Adaware on cleaning up this old computer. After running the Adaware until it showed clean I then loaded and updated A2 and it found 367 more infections, including 3 trojans.

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    Re: which combination of spyware programs?
    « Reply #1 on: June 14, 2006, 05:46:02 PM »
    Fordtruckmaniac...... I would be using a combination of the following:

    CCLeaner ..... for general crap removal ( use both cleaner and issues parts)
    SpyBot ......... Make sure to use the resident........
    Avast ........... For AV scans
    A2Squared.... For trojan removal on older machines .

    Note Ad-Aware really isnt designed to eradicate trojans .........


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    Re: which combination of spyware programs?
    « Reply #2 on: June 14, 2006, 05:57:02 PM »
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    Fordtruckmaniac...... I would be using a combination of the following:

    CCLeaner ..... for general crap removal ( use both cleaner and issues parts)
    SpyBot ......... Make sure to use the resident........
    Avast ........... For AV scans
    A2Squared.... For trojan removal on older machines .

    Note Ad-Aware really isnt designed to eradicate trojans .........


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    dl65,  Looks good to me.

    I left out I was using CCleaner too.  ::)

    I read this about Adaware in their description of the program, and it got me to thinking about what I noticed:

    "Ad-Aware provides protection from known Spyware including: Data-mining, aggressive advertising, Parasites, Scumware, [highlight]selected traditional Trojans[/highlight], Dialers, Malware, Browser hijackers, and tracking components".

    Thanks,
    « Last Edit: June 14, 2006, 05:58:23 PM by Fordtruckmaniac »
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      Re: which combination of spyware programs?
      « Reply #3 on: June 14, 2006, 11:37:10 PM »
      If you decide to run Spybot you should also look at the EI Tweaks & Hosts file.
      Spybot is a very powerful program in advanced mode, I believe most people only use it as a scanner & don't unlock it's true potential.
      (This has been an unpaid text commercial for Spybot S&D) :D
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