Spyware Warrior

donaldg · Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 5:26 pm Post subject: Illiterate New User

Hi all,
My name is Don, and I am an Aussie, and I do not live in a city, as over 80% of Aussie's do.
I am realtively new to computing, (not young!) but have already come across spam and spyware. Not sure how I came across your site, but it seems I should have done so earlier, as I have just subscribed to Ad-Eliminator, which seems to be a waste of money. I was sucked in by a pop-up advert of course!
Being a novice user, I need a little advice.
First, do I need to get rid of AD-Elim before downloading your software? Also, exactly which downloads would I need?
Secondly, a friend has told me to get System-Soap software (by download) to clean up my computer after each internet session. Do you know this software? Will it be money down the drain also? Do you have anything that will do the same job? Just looking through your site, I wonder if one of your tutorials I saw about cleaning up (offline) internet files actually does what system-soap would do?
Can you give me some guidance please? Confused

Thanks,
Don

wawadave · Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 5:45 pm Post subject:

hello
wellcome here!
try useing these as there thried and true.
Download and install the newest version (1.3) of SpyBot Search and Destroy http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html - Note: If you have been using SpyBot S&D for some time, chances are you have version 1.2. For some unknown reason, the 1.2’s update feature does not alert you to the new version so you must download and install the new from the link above. Also, download and install AdAware http://lavasoft.element5.com/support/download/ - there are free versions of each. Before scanning, use each programs’ update option to get the latest signature files, then scan, using SpyBot first.

a² Free is also a good malware cleaner and can be downloaded from: http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/download/?

Use one of these free on-line scanners (note some spyware,viruses and trojins have been known to disable PC based AV scanners):
http://housecall.trendmicro.com or http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/com/activescan_principal.htm.
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3162 · Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 5:59 pm Post subject:

Also, take a look at this Topic:
http://spywarewarrior.com/viewtopic.php?t=6909

In there, you'll find several recommended Free Apps to help keep your machine clean.
Check the links too, as you pass down the list. Tutorials, other apps, etc..

Feel free to ask questions, as well Wink

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