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From: Roy Compton <>
Subject: RE: [DNA] FTDNA Forum and e-mail from Max
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 10:06:47 -0700 (PDT)


For those who wish to use freeware, I have had great
success using Grisoft's
AVG for virus protection (it has automatic update if
you wish).
http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/1/lng/us/tpl/v5
I also often use Ad-WareSE & SpybotSD as mentioned
before as well as the
much faster and as thorough finder of all baddies
Bazooka Spyware Scanner.
http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/ It requires
some manual removal now &
then. Also a visit now and then to one of the online
scanners such as
HouseCall at Trend Micro
http://housecall.antivirus.com/housecall/start_corp.asp
is not a bad thing
to do. You can never be too safe. I have used the
ZoneAlarm free firewall
successfully but am now using the paid for version. In
practice, both work
just fine.
Roy Compton
-----Original Message-----
From: William Hurst [mailto:]
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 8:27 AM
To:
Subject: Re: [DNA] FTDNA Forum and e-mail from Max

David wrote:



> Yes, it would appear that you need both Ad-aware and
SpyBot for full

> coverage. I just installed SpyBot and it located 34
spyware cookies from

> places like "CoreMetrics" and "Travelocity" and
"Aqueduct Profiler" and

> "SpyHunter popups". All have been (with glee)
destroyed. I located

> SpyBot by googling - there are a number of sites
where it can be

> downloaded for free. This is a major invasion of
privacy, and a likely

> portal by which hackers could enter our computer.



David and all, I added Ad-Aware and SpyBot months ago
on the advice of a

Microsoft rep. Ad-Aware usually finds 20+ cookies or
whatever each time I

run it. SpyBot found several pieces of spyware the
first time I ran it, but

hasn't found anything since. One of my virus packages
or MSN 9 may be

stopping those at the gate now.



Both programs need to be updated frequently or they
won't catch the latest

little bad guys.



Bill Hurst





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