Re: anti-malware progs ineffective

From: Rubicon (no email)
Date: 01/31/05 

Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 04:44:00 GMT

John,

I've only just gotten rid of it myself.

Spybot was useless but didn't crash on my machine. Ad-Aware SE
Personal combined with the trial version of Spy Sweeper along with the
new AVG Free and all with the latest definitions finally managed to do
it.

The Spyware/Adware/Malware/Spam E-Mail just seems to be getting worse.
I'm becomming more and more reluctant to go online because of the
immense frustration at trying to get rid of them afterwards.

Good luck.

Andrew.

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 15:12:38 -0000, "john jardine"
<john@jjdesigns.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:

>
>"Terry Pinnell" <terrypinDELETE@THESEdial.pipex.com> wrote in message
>news:2j5kv05pqvarkhnvn2nfu64248nl2ih6er@4ax.com...
>> I was surprised to learn today that all anti-adware and anti-spyware
>> programs perform so badly. Here's an extract of the ranking, from
>> 'Anti-adware misses most malware' By Brian Livingston, in
>> http://windowssecrets.com/050127/
>>
>> Product Adware Fixed
>> ---------------- ------------
>> Giant AntiSpyware 63%
>> Webroot Spy Sweeper 48%
>> Ad-Aware SE Personal 47%
>> Pest Patrol 41%
>> SpywareStormer 35%
>> Intermute SpySubtract Pro 34%
>> PC Tools Spyware Doctor 33%
>> Spybot Search & Destroy 33%
>> McAfee AntiSpyware 33%
>> Xblock X-Cleaner Deluxe 31%
>> XoftSpy 27%
>> NoAdware 24%
>> Aluria Spyware Eliminator 23%
>> OmniQuad AntiSpy 16%
>> Spyware COP 15%
>> SpyHunter 15%
>> SpyKiller 2005 15%
>>
>> So, given that there must be great overlap, I reckon my
>> frequently-used combination of Ad-Aware SE Personal and Spybot Search
>> & Destroy is catching little more than half the malware reaching me.
>> Unsettling.
>>
>> --
>> Terry Pinnell
>> Hobbyist, West Sussex, UK
>>
>
>I've got some trash called "Cool web search" on my PC at the moment.
>*Nothing* can remove the core component.
>"Spybot" will crash the PC on finding it. Others just acknowledge that this
>POS is present.
>Even the purpose written "CW Shredder" crashes on attempting to remove it.
>Where are all those oh-so-clever-hot-shot-windows-programmers, when they're
>needed to do some real, socially useful work?.
>By default I'm learning that windows is built on gibberish. It leaks like a
>sieve. No amount of updating can ever improve it.
>regard.
>john
>
>

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