Author Topic: Antispyware soldier (Read 1326 times)

Chet · « **on:** October 01, 2006, 08:48:43 am »

Antispyware soldier adware got me.

Any good recommendations for free software that I can use to get rid of it.

Mooseherder · « **Reply #1 on:** October 01, 2006, 08:54:04 am »

I have it bad also. So bad, getting on the computer is frustrating.

WH_Conley · « **Reply #2 on:** October 01, 2006, 08:56:05 am »

I'm not familair with that one. I have had pretty good with Ad-aware. You can get it Major Geeks. Don't know if it will help or not.

JimBuis · « **Reply #3 on:** October 01, 2006, 09:12:31 am »

I have had good luck with Spybot Search & Destroy. However, I have not had an encounter with the nuisance you describe.

pappy · « **Reply #4 on:** October 01, 2006, 09:59:44 am »

Ad-Aware SE Personal (freeware)

http://www.lavasoft.de/products/ad-aware_se_personal.php

Works for me and I like free!!!! I set it to manual and run it every so often!!!

Was recommended by the geek where I bought this confuser.. that kid has always steered me right when it comes to this stuff

jimbo · « **Reply #5 on:** October 01, 2006, 10:14:54 am »

i run Spy Sweeper now and it seems to work realey well for me it has ben recommended by a lot of putter amgazines and such and much cheaper than Nortons also
it weas something like 39 .95 at Best Buys
jimbo

Tom · « **Reply #6 on:** October 01, 2006, 10:48:31 am »

I'm with Pappy on this one. Ad-Aware SE Personal (freeware) was recommended on that "old" TV show Screen Savers. I got it and like it. I got spybot Search and Destroy too, but, like ad-aware best.

sawguy21 · « **Reply #7 on:** October 01, 2006, 10:59:29 am »

My provider suggested Ad-Aware SE and it has worked very well. I run it once a week and it only takes a few minutes.

logwalker · « **Reply #8 on:** October 01, 2006, 11:48:51 am »

I am running foxfire/mozilla as a browser and havn't had any problem for more than a year. When I had explorer running I was about ready to throw this thing thru Bill Gates front window.

Mooseherder · « **Reply #9 on:** October 01, 2006, 12:07:50 pm »

Tried running the Ad-aware program 3 times and it shuts down my computer every time.
Nothing but Blue Screen saying system shut down.

beenthere · « **Reply #10 on:** October 01, 2006, 12:48:39 pm »

My grand daughter at College managed to get lots of spyware on her computer, so good 'ol GPa took it to a computer shop, they cleaned it, and suggested SpySweeper. So far, doing fine and cost was $32.95. I use the Yahoo! spyware option, at no cost and I believe it is working fine. At least I don't detect any and no pop-ups.

Paschale · « **Reply #11 on:** October 01, 2006, 01:29:34 pm »

Quote from: Mooseherder on October 01, 2006, 12:07:50 pm

Tried running the Ad-aware program 3 times and it shuts down my computer every time.
Nothing but Blue Screen saying system shut down.

I'll never use Ad-aware again. Apparently, it works fine for some people, but for some, for whatever reason, it shuts everything down. I had to call Dell about a year ago because after using Ad-aware, my computer just wouldn't work at all.

Dell said they get a boatload of calls a day because of Ad-aware problems. I had to completely reformat my hard drive, and had to have India guide me through every move.

I'd caution against Ad-aware, from my personal experience. Obviously, it's worked well for a lot of guys here, but I'll never go anywhere near that stuff on my PC. Spybot has worked well for me. But the best solution? Get a Mac.

That's what I did.

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #12 on:** October 01, 2006, 04:16:22 pm »

Spybot and Spyware Blaster here.

brdmkr · « **Reply #13 on:** October 01, 2006, 05:20:38 pm »

Quote from: logwalker on October 01, 2006, 11:48:51 am

I am running foxfire/mozilla as a browser and havn't had any problem for more than a year. When I had explorer running I was about ready to throw this thing thru Bill Gates front window.

Same here. Went to Firefox and have not had an adware popup since.

Woodcarver · « **Reply #14 on:** October 01, 2006, 06:59:49 pm »

I've used Ad-Aware SE for two or three years. Haven't had any problems with it and no spyware.

Corley5 · « **Reply #15 on:** October 01, 2006, 09:54:47 pm »

I've always used Norton. I keep it updated and it works for me

sawguy21 · « **Reply #16 on:** October 01, 2006, 10:41:57 pm »

The guy that built my puter installed Norton but that did not stop the spyware. Also, Norton kept asking to update which I dutifully did but now the DanG thing pops up and updates automatically when I am in the middle of something important like the FF. Gets huffy when I try to cancel till later.

Corley5 · « **Reply #17 on:** October 01, 2006, 10:50:36 pm »

Our first machine just had Norton Anti-Virus, 2nd one had Norton Utilities which included anti-virus. This machine came from Dell with Norton Internet Security with all the bells and whistles. It does the job

I'll probably get a major infection now that I've bragged it up. Better update

Chet · « **Reply #18 on:** October 01, 2006, 11:04:54 pm »

I've tried spybot, norton and adware and none of them have gotten rid of it.

CHARLIE · « **Reply #19 on:** October 02, 2006, 12:18:41 am »

I tried the free stuff for awhile, but I've come to the conclusion that there is really no incentive for the free stuff to keep current. I purchased SpySweeper a year ago and have been very pleased with it. It does a great job.

Ianab · « **Reply #20 on:** October 02, 2006, 01:09:24 am »

Chet..

You could try this link
http://www.spywareremove.com/removeAntispywareSoldier.html

It has manual removal instructions, but they look a bit of a mission, I think the utility on that page might be a good option.

Cheers

Ian

Fla._Deadheader · « **Reply #21 on:** October 02, 2006, 07:56:37 am »

Maybe Y'all remember the problems I had a while back. I finally got Mozilla to work properly?? and DO NOT allow Microsoft to operate on my computer, that I am aware of. NO pop-ups and the machine runs pretty well.

I use Trend-Housecall for a complete scan. It is at Trend.com. and free.

It shows a list of "Vulnabilities" that COULD affect my machine, WHEN I use Microsoft. Must be 40 items shown.

As far as Viruses, scan says there are none. Not even the Trojans I had so much trouble with.

Chet, try Trend-Housecall. It scans from your computer to their server. Might take a bit on dial-up.

mike_van · « **Reply #22 on:** October 03, 2006, 11:16:21 am »

Chet, don't know if it's any help but..... A few years ago the Dell I use was so bad, a few virusus had been in it, some junk like barganbuddy and casinoplayer, etc. got installed on it by

?? I'd get error messages all the time, etc. Out of desperation, I finally formatted the hard drive, kicked the kids off it, [they have their own now] It's run like a Swiss watch since then, I use a free zonelabs firewall & a free panicware popup stopper, no virus program. I'm on cable internet, I think we get hammered more than the dialups, but since then, no problems. I use a '98 Dell w/ win 98, does everything I want. It just got to the point trying to fix it was pointless, I spent hours trying, the format was the cure.

Tom · « **Reply #23 on:** October 03, 2006, 11:34:25 am »

Where do you get the guts to run bareback without an anti-virus program? I'd go nuts
There are too many people out there who want to hurt just for the sake of hurting. You don't have to be a big organization to be a target. They just shotgun the whole world and hope the get someone. The bad thing about virus' is that you can pass them on and not even know your machine is infected. I use Norton, but, there are a lot of other options out there, some of them free.

DextorDee · « **Reply #24 on:** October 03, 2006, 01:22:41 pm »

I like AVG antivirus its free it works for me..
http://free.grisoft.com/doc/2/lng/us/tpl/v5
and windows defender
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx

mike_van · « **Reply #25 on:** October 03, 2006, 03:19:09 pm »

Tom, the worst "crash" I ever had was running Norton - Went to download a music program, all this other junk came with it, plus some virus, I can't even remember the name of. I understand the first thing it did was disable NAV, then started eating everything in sight. Talking to Norton on the phone, they actually wanted more $$$$ on my CC # to even help me. I'll let you guess what I told that jacka**. The 39.50 or whatever I paid for the year I might a well have used to start the stove. There's very few sites I go to, I won't open any email attachment, even if I know the sender. A few times I thought something was fishy with the computor, I ran the Mcaffe Stinger, nothing, zip. Over two years now, maybe three, can't remember.

Tom · « **Reply #26 on:** October 03, 2006, 04:01:36 pm »

that kind of "service" would burn my ?? too.

bcraw98 · « **Reply #27 on:** October 03, 2006, 11:30:45 pm »

I agree with DextorDee, avg free and windows defender. I also have ad-aware and spybot. I have cleaned spyware from many computers due to kids at home and bored paramedics posted at our fire station. Sometimes no combination of the above will remove the DanG things and manual removal has to be done. regedit, file deletion and a whole bunch of detective work because they can be real sneaky

. I haven't had to reformat a drive yet due to adware/spyware, but I've been tempted. On a clean computer, the combination of avg free and windows defender does a good job of preventing problems, but commonsense on downloads does a better job.

Max sawdust · « **Reply #28 on:** October 04, 2006, 08:25:32 am »

I use Xsoft antispy. It is not free, something like one time $20. They do have a free trial version you could try to get rid of your problem. I have successfully used the free trial version to get rid of a problem that other products did not clean up. Xsoft in my opinion is good at cleaning the registries too.

good luck
max

GF · « **Reply #29 on:** October 05, 2006, 09:20:44 am »

I run CounterSpy from Sunbelt Software, on our corporate computers we run CounterSpy Enterprise. You can download a 15 day trail, and to purchase a copy is $20.

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Author Topic: Antispyware soldier (Read 1326 times)