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Other => General Topics => Topic started by: micah on July 24, 2007, 05:28:32 AM
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Donna's SecurityFlash Read here Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (http://msmvps.com/blogs/donna/archive/2007/06/14/spyware-sweeper-com-is-spywarebomb-com.aspx)
SpywareBomb is a known rogue antispyware.
Spyware-Sweeper.com is Spywarebomb.com
Read about it Here
SysInternals:New antispyware removal tool SysInternals Info (http://forum.sysinternals.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=11414)
Be warned People Do Not Click the Link pretty sure its useless link but better safe than sorry ;)
Spy Sweeper by (Webroot) is recognised as one of the best Antimalware programs
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But can anybody really say, "This programme is nice, and that one is not"?
My experience:
Some time ago I had Error Doctor 2007 to check my system's integrity, and had no problems. Neither Avast Home 4.7, nor Spyware Terminator 2 Beta found problems with it either.
Three days ago I installed Ad-aware SE (for on-demand scanning), and ran "full system's check".
To make it short: Ad-aware SE found Error Doctor 2007 to be a "gigantic threat" to my system and completely removed it. The threat level (TAC) of Error Doctor 2007 was estimated as "3", but one of it's files' TAC was equal to "10"!
Both Spyware Terminator 2 Beta and Ad-aware SE have the latest databases with malware signatures. So, please, choose the right variant:
a) Error Doctor 2007 is a threat to your system;
b) Error Doctor 2007 is "falsly accused";
c) Ad-aware SE is better than Spyware Terminator 2 Beta;
d) Ad-aware SE is a rouge antispyware;
e) Spyware Terminator 2 Beta and Ad-aware SE have different "points of view".
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Hi George Yves,
Here is an authority to go by:
http://www.spywarewarrior.com/rogue_anti-spyware.htm
You can add their search to your search engines and check on it before ever considering using it.
polonus
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Either micah or one of the mods should kill the live link to this rogue program. ???
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Here is an authority to go by:
http://www.spywarewarrior.com/rogue_anti-spyware.htm
Thanks for the link, polonus. But according to their data both Ad-aware and Spyware Terminator are trustworthy. So, the differences are in their definitions' files, aren't they?
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:) Hi George ( & Others ) :
"Spyware Terminator' is NOT listed as a trustworthy program by
Eric Howes at his spywarewarrior website .
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This is from the Spyware warrior website.
Note on SpywareTerminator: We originally listed Spyware Terminator on this page out of concerns that Crawler, the company behind the product, had established connections with IBIS, a well known adware distributor responsible for such adware programs as Wintools, Websearch, & Huntbar. Although we found no problems in our initial testing with Spyware Terminator, and while the vendor itself announced that it was exiting the adware business (1), we decided out of caution to impose a three month probation period before we would consider re-testing and, if warranted, de-listing the the product from the Rogue/Suspect list. During that three month probation period we monitored the behavior of IBIS and Crawler. At the end of the three month probation period we re-tested Spyware Terminator, again finding no problems serious enough to justify listing the program on this page. As the vendor involved has not been involved in the distribution of adware for many months, and as the program itself exhibits no problems serious enough to warrant mention on this page, we have decided to de-list Spyware Terminator from the Rogue/Suspect list and can no longer regard the program to be "rogue/suspect."
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http://www.malwarebytes.org/index.php
ok...another one in beta-anyone know of this and is it a rogue piece of ??? ::)
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i'm testing mbam and the people behind it i trust :) and if this spyware-sweeper was a good program would we not here more about it :) look at SuperAntispyware when it first came out no one was sure about it and now thay use it in highjack this log readings :) i also asked about this spyware-sweeper at spywarewarrior here http://www.spywarewarrior.com/viewtopic.php?t=25647 the choice is yours but a spam bot that goes around posting the same thing over and over is not a good way to sell something when there is a lot of good free ones out there :)
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:) Hi George ( & Others ) :
"Spyware Terminator' is NOT listed as a trustworthy program by
Eric Howes at his spywarewarrior website .
We are more than aware of that you keep banging on about it and its supposed chequered history. The same site also clearly states there is nothing wrong 'now' it is not on the rogue anti-spyware lists.
There must be absolutely hundreds of applications NOT listed in the trustworthy programs section, that DOESN'T make them untrustworthy
If we are talking trustworthy I wouldn't trust Microsoft Windows as far as I could throw Bill Gates, but I'm using much of there software.
@ justin1278
This is SpiritSongs particular hobby horse and you will see him ride it often, inspite of the quote from spywarewarrior.
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@ justin1278
This is SpiritSongs particular hobby horse and you will see him ride it often, inspite of the quote from spywarewarrior.
I understand, also a bit off topic, I use spyware terminator and find it a great product :)
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http://www.malwarebytes.org/index.php
ok...another one in beta-anyone know of this and is it a rogue piece of ??? ::)
No rogue program. This anti-spy is made by the same company of RogueRemover.
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got a question for someone who uses spyware terminator and i took if off for this reason when i had it installed-i noticed in my add/remove programs it was taking up @450.00MB instead of the usual say 20-25 its supposed to be...
i emailed their tech support and got a reply that there was a bug in my operating system in my add/remove program and too check it manually with a program polonus mentioned and i got the same amount that way checking it manually....does anyone has the same amount in their add/remove programs ??? ::)
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Hi Dan,
Yes remember that one, that wasn't kosher, was it? From where you downloaded that one, you should do some investigation using your tuvbar inside FF if you dare to use it, because what was on that server at that moment...weird, my friend, at least what I got from your story!
polonus
P.S. Is not this a beautiful American animal?
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well the program is history polonus after i did my complete os with long format and drivers restore couple of weeks ago-no more crapware on my system and won't fool around with the registry either...learn from your mistakes my friend ;D
pretty animal-at first i thought it was one of your cows damian 8)
(http://i17.tinypic.com/67xrul1.gif)
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This must be a bug in the program, my installation of Spyware Terminator is showing that it is using 3,317.00 MB in Add/Remove programs :o
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I haven't got any problem with ST:
(http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/1613/cptyq0.jpg)
@drhayden1:What crapy program did you uninstalled?
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no they told me it was a bug in my operating system and their program was fine-bs ??? :(
that's why i don't use it anymore ;)
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This must be a bug in the program, my installation of Spyware Terminator is showing that it is using 3,317.00 MB in Add/Remove programs
you must be a lucky one-i must not be the only one with the problem-as their crappy tech support told me it was in my os(as i said above) not their excellent software...no thanks-not on my machine anymore...there's better protection available ;)
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got a question for someone who uses spyware terminator and i took if off for this reason when i had it installed-i noticed in my add/remove programs it was taking up @450.00MB instead of the usual say 20-25 its supposed to be...
i emailed their tech support and got a reply that there was a bug in my operating system in my add/remove program and too check it manually with a program polonus mentioned and i got the same amount that way checking it manually....does anyone has the same amount in their add/remove programs ??? ::)
There must have been something wrong with your version of ST since others of us do not have the problem you have. ??? :P
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Spyware Sweeper successfully detects, blocks, and removes Spyware, Adware, Pop-up Ads, Phishing Attacks, Hijackers, Rootkits, Trojans, Drive-By Downloads, Rogue Programs, Messenger Service Ads, Keystroke Loggers, Malicious BHOs, Dialers and much more... Check out http://www.spyware-sweeper.com/ for download.
... and plays with your CPU when off-line.
1) Dear micah, you advertise a programme not saying a word about you experience. Are you using it?
2) As for me, I tried it. I turned off my usual resident (Ad-Watch) and installed Spyware Sweeper 3.1. After installation I scanned my computer: nothing was found. I closed the main window.
Then I opened my word processor and began to type a text. Suddenly the letters on the screen started to appear with jerks, as if a process with the highest priority took the lion share of resources.
I closed the word processor and opened the Process Manager. I saw there only one process working - SSFirewall.exe, and it made "CPU usage" jump up to 100% and down to 0% in right, 2-second intervals.
BUT I WAS OFF-LINE! What did it do with my CPU? Playing tag?
I uninstalled Spyware Sweeper 3.1 immediately and reload. Then I scanned my computer with Ad-Aware - nothing. I installed Spyware Sweeper 3.1 for the second time and got the same process with its "ups and downs". I uninstalled Spyware Sweeper 3.1 completely and deleted the setup file.
That was my experience with Spyware Sweeper 3.1.
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Hi George Yves,
And here is demonstrated again that everything on the Internet is not like it is advertised. You have to have an authoritative website like the good anti malware webforums (geekstogo etc.) to know what programs are good, and those that are evil or rogue as we say here.
Because this I have installed in my Firefox browser the DrWeb's av hyperlink scanner, that scans all sites or downloads on demand against the latest signatures at their Moscow servers, this is such a clever scanner idea, that I cannot go no longer on the Internet without this, the plug-in has an English and Russian version and can be used inside IE, Firefox, Flock, Opera browsers.
Or use an extension like MacAfee site advisor, or also very handy search with scandoo.com.
Surf safe, naboj!
polonus
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Hi Polonus!! I have also the link scanner but this shouldn't make me more confident. It doesn't detect everything and I got infected I don't know how with Trojan Phoney winlogon last week (be it FP or not!). ;)
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Well it just the 'first' step that should at least give confidence that there is no infected file at that link, that doesn't say anything about the file/program/site, for that you need to take the next step. That is checking out the domain name using McAfee Site Advisor to see if there are any adverse reports about the site, email spam, malware, etc.
Even after that there is the research on the product looking for reviews at reputable sites, there really are many good anti-spyware tools/programs than you can shake a stick at to try something new, without full investigation.