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    #1

    SPYWARE

    i just scanned the desktop and i found all kinds of nasty shit. like this one that sells your memory to companies. what programs do you guy run to get rid of the stuff??
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    #2
    Spy-Bot

    Ad-Aware.

    I use them both, one always gets stuff that the other misses.

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      #3
      I assume you're on a windows based machine, if so, then it's spybot or nothing. Don't even waste your time with ad-aware.

      Home of Spybot, Your Digital Identity Protection - Spybot Anti-Malware and Antivirus
      http://www.safer-networking.org
      Spybot offers a unique technology for your security. Far beyond antivirus Spybot searches and destroys unwanted software and protects your privacy.


      -Charlie
      Swing wild, brake later, don't apologize.
      '89 324d, '76 02, '98 318ti, '03 Z4, '07 MCS, '07 F800s - Bonafide BMW elitist prick.
      FYYFF

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        #4
        Originally posted by Charlie
        I assume you're on a windows based machine, if so, then it's spybot or nothing. Don't even waste your time with ad-aware.

        Home of Spybot, Your Digital Identity Protection - Spybot Anti-Malware and Antivirus
        http://www.safer-networking.org
        Spybot offers a unique technology for your security. Far beyond antivirus Spybot searches and destroys unwanted software and protects your privacy.


        -Charlie
        Everytime I run Ad-Aware (once per week) I get anywhere from 20-50 files quarrantined and deleted. And most of them are stuff that Spy-bot misses. Spy-bot olny checks your system for specified companie's files, it has a list of ones that it looks for (although updated frequently). Ad-Aware checks for ANYTHING that is ad or spy-ware related.

        I doesn't hurt to run both. Each time you run them, be sure to run the update manager and get whatever the latest update is, there is always at least one.

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          #5
          Hmm, I've found since they've started offering a "pro" version, ad aware's free client has gone downhill, it does a particularly bad job on browser hijackers. Spybot seems to do very well with those.

          Browser hijackers are a pain, especially when you have to support a campus of idiots.

          -Charlie
          Swing wild, brake later, don't apologize.
          '89 324d, '76 02, '98 318ti, '03 Z4, '07 MCS, '07 F800s - Bonafide BMW elitist prick.
          FYYFF

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            #6
            Originally posted by Charlie
            Hmm, I've found since they've started offering a "pro" version, ad aware's free client has gone downhill, it does a particularly bad job on browser hijackers. Spybot seems to do very well with those.
            That's why I have the Pro edition. :up:

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              #7
              spyware? adware? what?

              never had this stuff bother me before. :?
              My mountains are better than yours.

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                #8
                LOL, run a spyware/adware checker on YOUR system and see what it comes up with.

                "See, we're adding a little something to this month's sales contest. As you all know, first prize is a Cadillac Eldorado. Anyone wanna see second prize? Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired."

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                  #9
                  He's making a Mac joke. Mac's don't have spyware/adware. ;)

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by e30Matt
                    LOL, run a spyware/adware checker on YOUR system and see what it comes up with.
                    I gaurantee your comp will run noticeably faster.

                    Wait, aren't you on a Mac, Kris? Do spyware and adware affect Macs the same as PC's?

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                      #11
                      Originally posted by bimmerphile
                      spyware? adware? what?

                      never had this stuff bother me before. :?

                      Yeah. Yeah. Rub it in you Mac user.

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                        #12
                        I only get hit occasionally. Then I just go in to task manager and kill the program, delete it, and then erase it form the registry and its gone.
                        Im now E30less.
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                          #13
                          Originally posted by bmw_e30
                          Originally posted by bimmerphile
                          spyware? adware? what?

                          never had this stuff bother me before. :?

                          Yeah. Yeah. Rub it in you Mac user.
                          :rofl: Jerk. :P
                          I usally only get the usal tracking cookie BS stuff...but thats normal i think...I hardly ever get the tool bar spyware stuff that are homoghey.
                          -alex
                          i take pictures.

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