Spy ware software?

[dblue]

what is the best Spy ware protection?

[lordsmurf]

Kerio Personal Firewall, Spybot Teatimer, Mozilla Firefox, Hosts Secure, AVG Free Anti-Virus, and then run Spybot and Ad-Aware on regular intervals.

[dblue]

Kerio Personal Firewall, Spybot Teatimer, Mozilla Firefox, Hosts Secure, AVG Free Anti-Virus, and then run Spybot and Ad-Aware on regular intervals.

thanks

[Noahtuck]

It's pretty sad when you have to do more to protect youself on your PC in your own home than you have to out in the real world....

[thecoalman]

The person between the chair and the keyboard. After that what LS said.

[ROF]

Real World?

Anyways, I use AOL Spyware Protection. As a Roadrunner cable customer AOL is free in our area. The spyware protection is bundled in the security edition 9.0 or you can install it separately. Free McAfee AV too.

[isogonic]

keep your OS/browser updated
dont use default browser settings
dont use OE default settings
careful what you download, do you trust the source?

http://members.cox.net/dma98/index.htm

[Faustus]

Also be aware that alot of the really nasty spyware these days CANNOT be removed with automated programs.

Best not to get the stuff in the first place.

I use the microsoft anti spyware beta myself.

[Poppa_Meth]

Yes add MS Anti-spyware to the list lordsmurf gave you. Its free and enable realtime protections that keep the junk from getting in to begin with. I've been running them all for quite some time and about all I ever get is the occasional tracking cookie and even that is rare.

[guns1inger]

We have been trialling the MS$ beta over the past 8 months or so on a fleet of 400 laptops. The biggest problem is that Mircosoft designate what it detects, and what level of threat it contains. As MS$ acquires different companies, they suddenly go from being a high level threat, remove all trace, to not even coming up in the threat list at all. This is regardless of whether or not the actual software originally designated as spyware has changed in the interim. I have seen a number of items continue to quite happily infect our machines because M$ no longer declare them spyware, whereas spybot does find and remove them.

Because of this I no longer have any faith in the definitions that support the m$ tool.

[jollyjohn]

G'day
Ewido I think is the best or one of the best. It's free and updates daily. You'll be amazed to see how much s**t it'll find.
John

[fritzi93]

In addition to most of the above, you may want SpywareBlaster. Stops the crap before it gets on your computer. BTW, the realtime protection of Microsoft Antispyware may conflict with TeaTimer, does for me. So I only have MS Antispy running.