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LittleDarlin

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April 4th, 2005 12:00

Does Dell reccommend a specific spyware program??? Help!

I I have a new inspirion xp 1000.   What spyware program is good for my system.   I have all virus updated.
 
Please help on spyware.
 
Thank you!
 
Lil :smileyhappy:

zbestwun2001

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April 7th, 2005 00:00

Hi all,
I have some program links that I will put out here. Take what you need, they all are FREE!

SpyBoT~~~ AVG7-AntiVirus~~~ SygateFirewall~~~ AdAwareSE~~~ SpywareBlaster~~~" CleanUp~~~ HiJackThis~~~ About Buster~~~ MWAV~~~ CWShredder.exe~~~ SpyGuard~~~

Online Scans

eTrust AntiVirus Web Scanner
Panda ActiveScan Trend Micro

Steve

ky331

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April 7th, 2005 11:00

dalem,

I assume you meant sygate (not sySgate)... that scan is located at

http://scan.sygatetech.com/

i see Steve already gave the links to the scans at panda & trend-micro... as well as CA/e-trust

Message Edited by ky331 on 04-07-2005 07:55 AM

zbestwun2001

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April 7th, 2005 18:00

For the last 2 days I have had that song going on and on in my head.

Little Darlin'
Oh Little Darlin
Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah

Steve

dalem29

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April 7th, 2005 22:00

Steve: Here's a little treat for ya...maybe we're dating ourselves, but what the heck.

http://www.just-oldies.com/1957/little_darlin.htm

Noch

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April 11th, 2005 10:00

Hi Guys
 
Well, I have eventually installed Spybot (including the fix), Ad Aware, and Spyblaster on three of the pc's on my little network, and on this Dell Laptop. Now, here is the thing. All these computers are no more than three weeks old. Aside from the Dell, mostly the others, whilst having dsl connection, are mostly used mainly for email only and not much browsing - and I have found considerable amounts of spyware on these machines.
 
It will be hugely interesting when I install and run these applications on my old laptop, which has years of web browsing behind it, and is now so slow I decided to just get a new laptop. I will undoubtedly finds loads of malware on it.
 
One more question: One of my machines is still running Win 98 2nd edition. Its a p4 with 128 megs ram. Will this machine handle spybot, Adaware and Spyblaster??
 
Anyway, thanks so much for the help.
 
Harry

Message Edited by Noch on 04-11-2005 06:33 AM

ky331

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April 11th, 2005 11:00

at work, I'm still regularly using a win 98 SE machine, pentium 3, and both Ad-Aware & SpyBot run fine on it.  (i cannot make any comment about spyblaster, since I'm not using it).  things may run a tad slower on a slower processor, but they do run.

by the way, e-mail (and also Instant Messaging) are prime ways thru which viruses, worms, and trojans are spread.  you have to be extra careful any time you open an attachment... even if it allegedly comes from a person you know (and trust)... because one of the 'features' of several malware programs is that they can FORGE e-mails from you, pretending to come from your friends, hoping that you might be tricked into opening it!

 

msil217

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April 11th, 2005 11:00

I am not sure about the compatibility of spyware blaster and Win 98, but it uses no resources, except when updating.

zbestwun2001

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April 14th, 2005 19:00

Thanks Dalem,

Little Darlin'
Oh Little Darlin'



ok never mind....I'll try and behave.

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