A good program to test?

[Comp01]

I was wondering (Mostly out of curiousity) How Spycop is? and or PestPaatrol, Mainly because I am looking for something slightly better then SpybotS&D and Adaware, and want to check my systems status against stuff that adaware and spybot wont detect, does anyone have any opinions on these 2 programs? is it worth to download a trial of one of them? and if so, which one is better?

[rerun2]

If you have both Adaware and Spybot installed you should be pretty well protected against advertising- type spyware.

SpyCop concentrates more on keyloggers, and includes detection for commercial spying programs and other computer monitoring programs. Examples of this might be programs that a boss might use to watch an employee's activities and things like that. These types of programs can be said to be more intrusive to one's privacy and of a greater threat. SpyCop also has a very good reputation in this area of spyware.

I have not used PestPatrol but have lately heard some not-so favorable things about it. Like in this thread... http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=13363

[the Tester]

Hey Comp01,

Looking to test another spyware program?

Here's one that I use in addition to Spybot.
Aluria's Spyware Eliminator.
I registered it last year in Sept.It was very new back then.
Support is good.
The database has grown by leaps and bounds.
ASE targets spyware/adware/keyloggers.
It can load at startup and has home page protection.

The only thing that I had to get used to was the upgrading process.There isn't a download process bar or guage like it has when updating definitions.

It's $29.95 for lifetime license and tech support.
There is a trial also.


http://www.aluriasoftware.com ;)

[Comp01]

I just might try Aluria, although, whats stopping me, is the "Testimonials" on the info pages, about how people found lupwards to 300 Pieces of spyware, I mean, How can one person, get THAT much spyware? without going around, and purposely downloading it :-\

[the Tester]

Kazaa. ;)

[Pieter_Arntz]

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I just might try Aluria, although, whats stopping me, is the "Testimonials" on the info pages, about how people found lupwards to 300 Pieces of spyware, I mean, How can one person, get THAT much spyware? without going around, and purposely downloading it :-\
" }-

Hi comp01,

The number of entries found has not much to do with the number of spyware programs installed.
As an example I installed the MyWebSearch toolbar and AdAware found 31 items on an otherwise clean computer.
Installing KaZaa might indeed get you close to 300 found items.

Regards,

Pieter

[Comp01]

Hey, has anyone tried "X-Cleaner free" I found it on WebAttack http://www.webattack.com/get/xcleaner.html anyone know how it is?