Re: How to detect and remove Spyware?

["Kurt Buff" <kurt.buff () gmail com>]

fdisk is your most useful malware removal tool.

On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 5:07 AM, J. Lion <jv4l1n4 () gmail com> wrote:
> Yes - I was referring to the commercial stealth computer surveillance
> tools and spyware such as ActMon and SpectorSoft.
>
> Besides firewall - is there anything else that can be use to detect
> and remove these?
>
>
> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 6:12 PM, Bill Dean <bill.dean999 () comcast net> wrote:
> > If you are referring to spectersoft, my experience in forensic investigations is that any version past 5.0 cannot be 
> > fingerprinted or detected. Your only hope is a 2 way firewall to catch the communications going out.
> >
> > Bill Dean
> > Forensic Discoveries
> > Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: "J. Lion" <jv4l1n4 () gmail com>
> >
> > Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 15:39:48
> > To:security-basics () securityfocus com
> > Subject: How to detect and remove Spyware?
> >
> >
> > How do you detect and remove spyware?
> >
> > Can you use Lavasoft Adaware or Spybot Search & Destroy to detect
> > spyware software such as Symantec Spector spyware?
> > Can you use AV software such as AVG or Norton to detect Spector?