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Jan 29 2006, 08:49 PM

Microsoft don't defaultly delete your spyware, but I'm pretty sure they've got an extremely good quality spyware application to download, which does remove spyware and probably adware.

The program is called Microsoft AntiSpyware I believe, It's best to search google because I've never used it myself so don't know where to get it from etc. i've just heard good things about it from my college and someone else who's into computing.

Hope this helps

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Inspiron

Jan 31 2006, 10:49 AM

QUOTE(BOAW @ Jan 29 2006, 07:36 AM)

the only thing i think you need to do is just keep update the microsoft updates on microsoft.com n ull b fine cuz my comp has been goin through the spyware till i updated all the security stuff from there n i had no problems after that

It's not recommended to rely solely on Microsoft Windows updates and Microsoft Anti-Spyware to keep your system safe from uninvited guest. Additional Anti-Spyware programs, full version, not trial or betas, are recommended. Microsoft Anti-Spyware is currently a beta version, hence it cannot guarentee removal and detection of any existing spywares on your computer.

I'd recommend "Spybot - Search & Destroy", a very good anti-spyware program that is recognised by many users. Scanning for spyware at least once in a week will keep your computer away from spywares.

QUOTE(dementeddemon @ Jan 31 2006, 04:10 PM)

Very interesting. I've heard you need 2 or more anti-spyware programs to catch all the spyware is having more than two anti-spyware programs recommendded?
If not please explain.

Any amount of Anti-Spyware programs are okay to install in your system. However it is not recommended to have more than 1 anti-spyware to auto-detect the presence of spyware real time. Hence you will need to disable all and only allow 1 program to auto-detect spywares. THe anti-spyware programs will probably crash or unable to detect spywares with multiple auto-detectors running simultaneously. Also, refrain from doing full scanning with multiple anti-spyware programs together. You will have to do it one anti-spyware program at a time.

 

 

 

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