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Scot Finnie provides excellent, concise advice and recommendations on this age old question: http://www.pctoday.com/editorial/article.asp?article=articles/2004/t0209/04t09/04t09.asp Vince _____________________________________________________________ [*** If everyone is thinking alike, then...

In Settings>Ignore Products>All Products, I have just found several items with a check mark beside them. "If you check a product here, it will not be found during a scan. Use this list if you know you have some threat on your computer, but need to keep it" I did not knowingly disable checking...

Service Pack 2: It's Out There (now) Quoted Excerpts: … Lots of you had no problems at all, but others weren't so lucky. Following are some of the most common complaints and kudos we're hearing. … Others are having problems with peer-to-peer software. The latter is based on the fact that...

Google hits on ‘spyware OR malware’ is now around 1,000,000 and is obviously on the minds of and of concern to many. Accordingly, we have acquired many new scumware (FUD =fear, uncertainty and doubt) players and ad profiteers to beware of. Many use false positives to goad purchase of their...

I have always found SpyBot (SB) to be a very valuable tool. Of late, several issues have made SB less effective, less helpful. It and similar tools have the potential to create an outright false sense of security - especially in cases of multiple user profiles. Our family (and my home office)...

This is a story on the importance of: realtime spyware scanners, process killers, how one incident became the tip of the iceburg, need for and co-existence of similar multiple tools. Ever wonder whether a (free) tool like SpywareGuard (SG), a real-time spyware scanner, is...

Checking for updates in Version 1.2 yields no indication that a new 1.3 version is now currently available (13,734 items). I had been wondering why no updates for quite some time: http://www.spybot.info/index.php?page=download

In a previous thread (Do you know what is in your temp files? Maybe you ought to?) I identified TEMP files that were very suspicious in nature and worthy of concern: http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?SQID=825169&SPID=760&newpid=760&page=1 Such files had extracts from my hosts file and...

Do you know what is in your temp files? Maybe you ought to? There might potentially be a new sneaky form of spyware and monitoring vulnerabilities happening there? I certainly have been getting this indication as I monitor the contents of my *.TMP files. Some of those temp files may...

Very recently, every time I boot I have been consistently getting an incremental suspicious looking pair of 0 K files in the C:\windows directory (WIN98). If I can immediately delete these files without consequence, then why would there be a legitimate explanation for these file pairs other than...

Potential phone home content holders? Directory of C:\WINDOWS FFFE10~1 TMP 0 03-06-04 11:08p fffe101f_{3403CDC0-6FC3-11D8-96A2-00E0299E2939}.tmp FFFE10~2 TMP 0 03-06-04 11:08p fffe101f_{3403CDC1-6FC3-11D8-96A2-00E0299E2939}.tmp FFFE2C~1 TMP 0 03-06-04...

Something to keep in mind - possibly a good validation step for verifying the integrity of your converted disk. I recently used MaxBlast (disk conversion utility from Maxtor) to convert a 30GB Maxtor to a Western Digital 120GB using 3 x 40GB partitions (Win98SE). All was well for several days...