some good spyware programs

[copy2012]

If you want to spend a little cash (lets face it, you get what you pay for, what I’m saying is most of the free removal/protection programs are crap at best, oh, Norton doesn’t pay either lol) Xoftspy is a real piece of work when it comes to removing spyware. To contradict myself in the same post, run spybot or ad-aware to have some real-time protection too, because Xoftspy will only remove spyware not protect you from it

[Luciel]

so why not just run ad-aware, protects, removes and contradicting you tottally, its free

[copy2012]

Ok, I have obviously stepped on some code here

Sure run them, all I was writing was that not all of the freebies are that great and often will let spyware through anyway. I just found that Xoftspy does a wonderful job of removing the spyware those freebies miss

[Luciel]

nah dont get me wrong mate i mean, what you are saying is that you are recommeding x program that you have to pay for and then install x2 program which is free which does what x program did and then some, right?

[DABhand]

Bear in mind no one program will give you 100% protection.

[copy2012]

Inah don’t get me wrong mate I mean, what you are saying is that you are recommeding x program that you have to pay for and then install x2 program which is free which does what x program did and then some, right?

No not really, Xoftspy will remove the spyware those free programs will let slip through when surfing. I only recommended the free program as live protection, what I’m trying to say is, Xoftspy will not protect you while you are surfing, it only comes into play when you need to remove spyware, the spyware those free programs do not detect.

@DABhand, couldn’t agree more

[DABhand]

One major mistake some people tend to do is have more than one type of security program running at the one time.


I have had to fix machines that had virii and serious spyware/malware due to the owner having either 2 or more AV's running or 2 or more AntiSpyware running.


They always conflict with each other and let things slip that otherwise may have been picked up.

[acal3000]

Originally Posted by copy2012

No not really, Xoftspy will remove the spyware those free programs will let slip through when surfing. I only recommended the free program as live protection, what I’m trying to say is, Xoftspy will not protect you while you are surfing, it only comes into play when you need to remove spyware, the spyware those free programs do not detect.

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Nah I had that thing in the past and also leave some spyware without remove some times