-=PCTechTalk=- Re: AdAware/Spybot??!!

Hi ya Drummer!

I think you answered your own program.  Each program written to remove spyware, 
etc., uses a different logic.  Some are more aggressive than others.  That may 
look like a good thing...........until a program you like starts running 
erratically because a file or DLL was removed by the aggressive version of a 
spybot program.

I'm not recommending that you don't use the program you have, I'm just pointing 
out risks.  I have never had a problem with what AdAware removes.  I finally, 
after a long test period, changed the settings in AdAware to automatically 
remove junk it finds.  I never found a problem with what it recommended be 
removed.

Regards from the
"Keyboard Cowboy",
Master NetLord
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Cincinnati, Ohio
Scottsdale, Arizona
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Saturday
06/29/2002
11:37:10 PM


On Sat, 29 Jun 2002 19:30:17 -0400, Drummer wrote:
>
>Hey I use Webwasher and Ad-Aware to remove most all ads and ad spys
>from my PC, but just recently I downloaded "Spybot (Search+Destroy)"
>and it found 20-30 more spying items it said were being used for
>tracking purposes...
>(Including a whole lot in Win98 itself!) Why so? Does anyone know
>why Spybot finds more (different?) things than Ad-Aware does?
>
>Also maybe it's just coincidence, but since using Spybot to
>eliminate a lot of stuff my OE5 mail program is now loading in and
>reading mail easily twice as fast as before. It's great fun having
>it speedily zip along now the way it does...
>
>Spybot does caution however that it might remove some ad things that
>might cause some software programs to no longer function, but so far
>I haven't found any of these... (And if I do, I'll probably just
>delete them anyway as long as they're not critical software....)
>
>d];>]}
>drummer
>
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