Spyware

I am not sure if this the right group to ask this question, but I'll
try. I spent last night 3 hours or so to get rid of some spyware
and Hijack stuff. This since my dad complained his pc was getting
slow.

I submitted the latest version of Ad-Aware and till my surprise the
same **** (Istbar, XXXtoolbar, etc.) was popping up, which I removed
2-3 weeks ago. By searching the web, I found people with the same
problems and based on what I read I was eventiually able to get rid
of the stuff downloaded mostlikely with "Internet Washer Pro", which
he downloaded by accident.

I also removed Gator which is nasty stuff. Anyway, in one of the
article it was mentioned to install also SpywareGuard, which I just
did and it looks slick. But my question is:

Do I really need to have all these 3 programs:
- Mcafee Anti-virus (Yes)
- Ad-Aware
- SpywareGuard

Does anybody have any experience with SpywareGuard?

Thanks in advance for any feedback!!

Ellen

 

Hoi Poespas,

Yes, you do.
And I would add SpywareBlaster as well.

Raed this on how to prevent getting infected by spyware: http://boards.cexx.org/viewtopic.php?t=957

Regards,

Pieter

 

Hi Pieter,

thanks for your reply. Can you please tell me why I need Spywareblaster in addition to Ad-aware?

I would like to reduce the number of utility programs rather then increase.

Thanks,
Ellen

 

Hi poespas,

SpywareBlaster is not a program that needs to be running on your computer.
It changes the registry in a way to prevent certain ActiveX spyware (a total of 682 at the moment of this post), so it won't use up any resources by running in the background.
In short: SpywareBlaster and SpywareGuard prevent infection. AdAware cleans it up after infection.

Regards,

Pieter

 

Hi Pieter,

thanks for your clear reply.
I will follow-up your advice!!

Cheers,
Ellen