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RE: Best spyware program
From: Doug.Janelle () Thermo com
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 08:01:57 -0400
It's stating the obvious (or at least it *should* be obvious), but spyware detection is incredibly subjective. Each vendor decides what will be on their list and what won't (see the recent flap about what MS has taken *off* their list). Run any two (or three or four) anti-spyware apps and they are likely to come up with different results. IMHO, the best method is to run at least one pre-infection product that monitors the registry, etc for suspicious changes (like Spybot's Tea Timer, et. al) and at least two different, regularly updated post-infection scanners. Trying to find a single app that will kill all spyware is a fools' errand. 2-cents respectfully submitted by, dcj2 I tried (M$ASW) this for a while - it told me I had no spyware. I have tested this by going back to "Spyware Killer" which found 163 instances and some fairly serious Craig
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