I strongly recommend and use on my customer's systems as well as my wife
and kids' machines - Spy-Bot. It isn't perfect but it works very well
and it is free. The maintenance and development is done by one guy so
updates are not as frequent as I like but again, it is a very good tool.
Sometimes it won't clean everything up, but wait a week or two for an
update and it'll get it. I have seen it take absolutely unusable
machines and bring them back to life. To date - after about 18 months
of use, I've not had any loss of data or system problems resulting from
the use of the tool.
http://www.safer-networking.org/
I also strongly recommend moving to FireFox and Thunderbird instead of
Internet Explorer and Outlook Express. That along with the
"Immunization" feature of Spy-Bot and you'll be in good shape.
On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 21:13 -0500, Joe Brandt wrote:
> I realise that this is off topic .... but ...
> There are lots of PC Techs in this list, does anyone know of a CD based
> spyware removal tool. I have a small side business helping my friends
> and co-workers with their computers. The most prevalent problem now is
> spyware. I am looking for a CD based solution that I could clean up
> their systems with instead of suggesting that they buy a commercial
> version that does not work that well anyway.
>
> Second is there a PC Tech forum like this one that is quasi-local?
>
> Thanks again
> Joe Brandt
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