free on-demand spyware scanners?

[C.S.J]

hey ppl, quick thread.

i want a free on-demand scanner without all those monitors and one that doesnt run in the background.

good detection but just an on-demand program please, anyone know any good ones?

[Mrkvonic]

Hello,
On demand scanner - what type? Anti-virus, anti-trojan, anti-spyware?
Mrk

[jasonago]

Spybot S&D, AdAware Free, AVG antispyware, and Spyware doctor are some of the progs you can use.

Spyware doctor has a good detection but you need to pay before you can clean your system.

I personally use spybot because it is free and has relatively and fairly good detection rates...plus the tools it has...

AVG antispyware (previously Ewido) is also free. I think you can disable its monitors. I haven't tried it but forums are giving good comments on ewido/avg antispy...

hope this helps...

[C.S.J]

i asked because im trying the beta dr.web and didnt think it scanned for adware and spyware,

but....

i saw this on their own website,

"Mass-mailing worms * E-mail viruses * Peer-to-peer viruses * Internet worms * File viruses * Trojans * Stealth viruses* Polymorphic viruses * Bodiless viruses * Macro viruses * MS Office viruses * Script viruses * Spyware * Spybots * Password stealers * Paid Dialers * Adware * Riskware* Hacktools * Backdoors * Keyloggers* Joke programs * Malicious scripts * Other malware* "

so no need, thank you for the swift reply though. ;D

[WSFuser]

superantispyware free and ewido micro

[Bubba]

Since We have a fairly recent ongoing thread concerning this subject matter....We'll bring this thread to a close and ask that We continue in that thread Please.

Thanks,
Bubba

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