Spyware prog

[boofhead]

I downloaded Spyware Doctor from Google mainly because it's free. I have run it and found various numbers of spyware on several computers at home. What happens to those files? Are they quarantined or destroyed automatically? I cannot find any button or step to remove them from the computer. Is Spyware Dr another of those "free" programs that find problems but make you pay for the fix?

[spannersatcx]

Is Spyware Dr another of those "free" programs that find problems but make you pay for the fix?

Yes...................

[extreme P]

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html
Try these. Both free.

[Tarq57]

SpywareTerminator

Asquared

Superantispyware


Or these. Also free, or free version. The first also has resident protection. All a bit more up to date than AdAware (the latest version of which, I think, is terrible) or Spybot, which is good, honest, a little dated,(old engine) but still useful.

[amanoffewwords]

IMHO Adware has become too bloated + slow to run so I tend to avoid it. Spybot Search and Destroy is flavour of the month for me and my colleagues. Simple to use + effective like all s/w should be..

[mcdhu]

But rightly or wrongly I run full NAV and Internet Security which do slow down the start up process. Can I run programmes such as Spyware Terminator and others in parallel with NAV+IS without either rotting up NAV or NAV interfering with them?

Thanks,
mcdhu

[Tarq57]

But rightly or wrongly I run full NAV and Internet Security which do slow down the start up process. Can I run programmes such as Spyware Terminator and others in parallel with NAV+IS without either rotting up NAV or NAV interfering with them?

Possibly. I've read of a user with SpywareTerminator and NIS 2007 that was then unable to connect to a certain site, troubleshoot still ongoing.
Norton is more likely than a lot of the other security programs to not play well with others.
If you try another resident program, like ST, make a restore point first, just in case.