Posted: 3/25/2004 7:51:47 PM EDT
| Anyone know of a good free scanner/cleaner? |
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[size=4]AD-AWARE 6.0[/size=4] Ad Aware 6.0 is THE SHIT! It's completely free, and you can download updates for free with the push of a button. Updates are important as new Spyware surfaces every day. I looooovvvvveee that program! Download it here: (don't click "click to buy", just "download now". It's free!) [url]http://download.com.com/3000-8022-10214379.html?tag=lst-0-2[/url] |
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Just be VERY careful with spybot... you can screw up a lot with it! It is pretty powerful, all around. Use the defaults, combined with ad-aware... and add zone alarm or another firewall... you'll be good to go. Edit: Zone alarm has pop-up blockers now that work fairly well, it's a good idea to have the firewall anyway. My ISP has blockers, combined with those from Zone Alarm... pop-ups are very rare for me. |
| Also do a search for the Google Toolbar. It has a wonderful pop up stopper in it. Some say it is spyware itself but you can download a version that doesnt report back to Google and there is an option to turn that feature off. Ad Aware and Spybot do not consider it spyware anyway. |
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Quoted: I cleaned a bunch of stuff off of my computer, but I still don't have my original search engine back. I think it was just the IE default. How do I change it back? Go thru a file search on your system drive, and look for anything that has HOST as file, and empty it. I'm not sure what happens if you delete it though. My children download a virus that put all of the search engine names into somthing called HOST. This file says specifies that your machine can't access any of internet sites. |