what is the best way (computer question)

[plcdude]

to rid your computer of spyware?

[will work 4 food]

1. Lethal injection <eom>

[Wickerman]

2. adaware

[plcdude]

3. could you be a little more

specific for me?

[Wickerman]

4. leading remover of spyware

once you remove the stuff from your machine switch your browser. Run mozilla or firefox (www.mozilla.org) instead of internet explorer.

http://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-SE-Personal-Edition/3000-8022-10319876.html?tag=lst-0-1
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One of the first applications built to find and remove adware and spyware, Ad-aware SE Personal Edition's excellent reputation is well justified. The sky-blue, skinnable interface features five buttons. The first two, Status and Scan, lead to the core function of the application. These buttons initiate a scan of your files for adware components. After scanning is complete, the program presents a summary of results, followed by a list from which you select exactly which components to remove. Right-clicking an individual entry gives some information about the piece of suspected adware, though we would like more details. Ad-aware SE can alert you to more malignant forms of malware by separating items into critical and negligible categories. The third button, Ad-watch, is nonfunctional in the Standard version. The fourth button, Plug-ins, shows you which Ad-aware plug-ins are installed. The fifth leads to the help files.

[plcdude]

5. thank you

that really helps alot my home computer is really slowing down and I keep losing my home page, and pop ups are happening way too much. So I will try this and thanks for taking the time to help me out.

[tech3149]

6. Ad Aware and Spybot Search & Destroy

The problem with some is that they will re-install themselves again when you reboot. To get rid of those, you need to remove registry and start-up references in safe mode.

[LibertyorDeath]

7. Here try these

Spybot Search & Destroy

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html

Adaware SE

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/

WinPatrol

http://www.winpatrol.com/

You can use this also but be carefull

Hijackthis

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download3155.html

Hijack This is for advanced users.

Yes what lunabush said "once you remove the stuff from your machine switch your browser. Run mozilla or firefox (www.mozilla.org ) instead of internet explorer."

[plcdude]

8. Thanks this all very good

by registry what do you mean and where do I find it?

[no name no slogan]

9. to maintain a "cleaned" PC, try Pest Patrol

It will ferret out almost anything you've downloaded/been infected with, and gives a good report, too. I've had it kill stuff that AdAware missed.

I run both, BTW, just because I'm paranoid. I run AdAware once a week and PestPatrol on bootup every day. Seems to be a winning combination so far.