OT:Spyware/clean up software?

Hi

Can anyone recommend the best software which tell you whats on your pc,
spyware etc

Ive been searching google for one, but it comes up with alsorts and I dont
want to
install some trojan crap which seems to be out there pretending to be
spyware software.

Anyone recommend a genuine one?.

Ive also seen people using something called Hijack is this any good?.
Anyone know the proper URL for it?.

My pc is running slow and im wondering if a spyware/clean up software could
help me?

TIA

 

Ad-Aware:
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/

SpyBot - Search & Destroy:
http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=download

CWShredder & HijackThis:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html

All freeware.

HTH


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"Once in a while,
I'm standing here, doing something.
And I think,
What in the world am I doing here?
It's a big surprise."

 

Can anyone recommend the best software which tell you whats on your pc,

I use Ad-Aware by Lavasoft. Someone told me that they use that one and
Spybot search and destroy. Even though one complains of the other they do
both work when installed on the same system.
However I just have Ad-Aware installed and I'm very happy with that.
Although I don't have it running automatically, I will launch the
application manually, as I do like to keep the number of services, and
memory usage, to a minimum.

Maybe it will. But having something like Ad-Aware isn't a bad thing anyway.
You could have a look at the number of services that you have running and
what they are. But as you don't write with any details of your machine spec
or OS I am just guessing that you are using XP. Also there could be many
reasons as to why your machine is running slow but without more details
people would be only guessing, like me

http://lavasoft.element5.com/
http://www.safer-networking.org/


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Regards


Morgan

Hard Drive noise a problem....?

www.flyinglizard.freeserve.co.uk

 

Ad-Aware:

thanks will install those and check them out

 

yep youre right, sorry, im running xp pro. running norton 2004 package for
av/firewall protection etc

seems ive got alot of stuff running.

I insatlled DIVX now ive got Gain_trickler_3202 running all the time
trying to access the internet.
Also installed Quick time etc so ive got ipodservice.exe ,
ituneshelper.exe running all the time.

I havent been able to find way of stopping all this stuff running yet!.

 

yep youre right, sorry, im running xp pro. running norton 2004 package
for

Well when I boot my machine up I have 22 services running with around 110mb
footprint. It could be smaller but I'm using a home network and I use
Mailwasher. I also have Quicktime installed but no services are running
because of that. Look under the options of Quicktime to disable them.
You realise that DivX and Gain are related so I assume that you use the
Codec to encode rather than just decode, hence Gain....?
I had NIS and have tried ZA for the firewall and I do not care for either of
them. As I use Ad-Aware and manually (turned off for auto protect) use NAV
now and again on my system for a scan I am very happy with XP's own built in
firewall. I keep NAV to check my mails in and out and thus still need to
have nprotect.exe running, as well as ccApp.exe.
http://www.blackviper.com/
The above link is pretty useful for giving you some understanding of what
services are used and whether it is safe to disable them or not.
I even disabled my Alcatel modem icon (dragdiag.exe) as it then saves
another 10mb or so memory. All it did, for me, was to change to a green icon
when a ADSL line was established.


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Regards


Morgan

Hard Drive noise a problem....?

www.flyinglizard.freeserve.co.uk

 

Considerable competence is required for safe use of HiJackThis. I'd
suggest you stick to ad-aware and Spybot S&D .. both of which you now
have URLs for. Spybot is particularly useful for it's 'immunise'
function, which will stop further cr&p arriving (unless you stupidly
agree to let it).

 

This is "Gator" you need to uninstall DIVX Pro and install the
non-spyware supported standard version (or pay for the spyware free
pro version) link here: http://download.divx.com/divx/DivX511.exe

Try AShampoo startup tuner (link:
http://www.ashampoo.com/internet/shareware/0017.htm) it will let you
control what runs at startup.

Also check out Real Alternative which stops you having to install Real
Player: http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Real_Alternative.htm

 

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This site's homepage is a nice tester for Spybot S&D's bad download
blocker function. Just be sure to pick the 'display dialogue when
blocking' option.