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General Category => Questions & Requests => Technical Discussion and Help => : *<JO>*Miridius March 13, 2008, 11:24 AM

: BIG URGENT SPYWARE PROBLEM
: *<JO>*Miridius March 13, 2008, 11:24 AM
ok, so at work we have a pretty bad spyware problem and i cant find a good FREE program to take care of it.

i have spybot, but its not doing the job, and my norton virus scan also isnt doing it. Please help

Miridius
: Re: BIG URGENT SPYWARE PROBLEM
: *<JO>*Kor' Keel March 13, 2008, 12:30 PM
I Personally use Spybot S&D and AD aware 2007 free. works great for me.

I have also heard of a program called SpywareBlaster But I have never tried it.

-oh and did you remember to update spybot and immunize the computer?
: Re: BIG URGENT SPYWARE PROBLEM
: Asheron Cosh March 13, 2008, 01:37 PM
I use Nortan AntiVirus and LavaSoft Ad-Aware SE Personal. Seems to work for me ;)
: Re: BIG URGENT SPYWARE PROBLEM
: *<JO>*Cei.Vookto March 13, 2008, 02:07 PM
Ad-aware 2007 personal (which is free) works really well indeed.
: Re: BIG URGENT SPYWARE PROBLEM
: Kaar March 13, 2008, 02:17 PM
Ya agreed, Ad-aware works really well you should use that man.  :)
: Re: BIG URGENT SPYWARE PROBLEM
: *<JO>*Vargus.Traspro March 13, 2008, 02:40 PM
ok, so at work we have a pretty bad spyware problem and i cant find a good FREE program to take care of it.

i have spybot, but its not doing the job, and my norton virus scan also isnt doing it. Please help

Miridius

sit back and pray it goes away
: Re: BIG URGENT SPYWARE PROBLEM
: *<JO>*Narretas March 13, 2008, 11:49 PM
Ad-aware 2007 personal (which is free) works really well (This word belongs to Jaden Kalin).

Ad-aware 2007, should solve it.
: Re: BIG URGENT SPYWARE PROBLEM
: *<JO>*Miridius March 14, 2008, 04:32 AM
hmm i also have Spybot, but its not doing the job along with the Symantic thing we have. I thought i had tried to download ad-aware and it got me as far as checking for problems, but never actually let me fix them unless i would buy it.

Spyware Doctor, or sometihng like that also the same.... it seams that the virus scanner has detected trojans, but after it delets them, and i run yet another scan a few hours later its like its all back. We have a non stop internet connection and i wonder if exploder is meesing me up here. but i dont think im allowed to change the browser.

Ive tried starting in safe mode to scan, but spy bot wont come up...

: Re: BIG URGENT SPYWARE PROBLEM
: *<JO>*Miridius March 14, 2008, 04:33 AM
ok i downloaded ad-aware, but my computer sais that the system admin had set to prevent me from installing.... where do i change that?
: Re: BIG URGENT SPYWARE PROBLEM
: *<JO>*Narretas March 14, 2008, 05:44 AM
Say

Run as...

Then choose administrator and fill in the password.

That should do it!
: Re: BIG URGENT SPYWARE PROBLEM
: Kaar March 14, 2008, 12:14 PM
Ya, I haven't used ad-aware for awhile but when I did use the program it worked really well. There should be a new, updated version so now it is totally pwnage.  ;)
: Re: BIG URGENT SPYWARE PROBLEM
: Ghosh Lorz Geptun March 14, 2008, 02:33 PM
Here is the best free antivirus/antispyware program i use.

For linux users (http://www.avast.com/eng/avast-for-linux-workstation.html)

for windows users (http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html)
: Re: BIG URGENT SPYWARE PROBLEM
: |E|Nova,G March 17, 2008, 11:03 AM
Try using a-Squared Free edition
 http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/ (http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/)

I use this in addition to Ad-Aware 2007 & Spybot S&D. a-Squared has detected a lot more for me, so I hope it works well for you.
: Re: BIG URGENT SPYWARE PROBLEM
: *<JO>*Miridius March 20, 2008, 11:55 AM
ok so its a bigger problem....


worm.win32.netsky

YEY !! THIS SUPER SUCKS !!!!

any ideas
: Re: BIG URGENT SPYWARE PROBLEM
: Kaar March 20, 2008, 12:42 PM
worms LOL! good luck
: Re: BIG URGENT SPYWARE PROBLEM
: *<JO>*Cei.Vookto March 23, 2008, 12:44 AM
reformatting? You also may want to just run like 5 scans in a row using your virus scanner, updating it after each scan?
: Re: BIG URGENT SPYWARE PROBLEM
: |E|Nova,G March 24, 2008, 05:50 AM
Take my advice and use a-squared. It's designed specifically for trojans, worms, rootkits and other naughty malware.
: Re: BIG URGENT SPYWARE PROBLEM
: |E|Luster March 24, 2008, 07:08 AM
Avast! Antivirus ftwftwftw!!

Install-reboot- and they do a startup scan -uninstall (it's great but starts finding trojans in everything if you give it the chance.)
: Re: BIG URGENT SPYWARE PROBLEM
: LeiNix March 24, 2008, 10:40 AM
Sheesh, home alone most of the time huh?

Jedi Master,
LeiNix
: Re: BIG URGENT SPYWARE PROBLEM
: *<JO>*Miridius March 27, 2008, 05:25 AM
thanks guys, i ended doing a google search on the matter, and found a forum of some geeks something something. One guy there had a complete process and i followed it, and seem to be clear now, which is great, so im happy. Thanks tho....

Miridius
: Re: BIG URGENT SPYWARE PROBLEM
: *<JO>*Torran Naojin March 28, 2008, 10:31 PM
Haha, you're lucky. I got the bluescreen of death the other day. I wanted to die. I had to reformat and lost all of my files.
: Re: BIG URGENT SPYWARE PROBLEM
: *<JO>*Angel April 30, 2008, 01:13 AM
Best virus removal is manual removing each entry from the registry lol.