This maybe an important notice

Just this week my membership to spyware nuker had ended, and I found out I couldn't use the software to nuke spyware or adware anymore, it went back to its old self, just a scanner for spyware and adware!

Though thats not the worse part, and definitely not the oddest. I just searched on google for about hour looking for a better software, one that would let me still use it without needing updates to be fully functional.

All the while, I ran into this: http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/adware.spywarenuker.html It claims that spyware nuker is adware! lol

I'm not sure if I ever got an ad from spyware nuker, don't recall that, but I do wonder if it affected my connection, I've had connection problems before, not very often, but they were there.

Anyhow, I think I'm going with norton since the last time I used norton anti-virus, (for example) I didn't have to resubscribe to norton just to run and use it like normal. Instead I just wasn't allowed to get an updated list when anti-virus expired heh, which I can deal with expensive, but worth it, for sure.

 

look at Pc-cilin from trend micro. I have used norton and other programs before and I think this is much better.

 

Also Spybot Search & Destroy and Ad-Aware, and Microsoft's AntiSpyware utility. all freeware with free updates.

 

AV without updates is useless...PERIOD. I'm the cheapest guy on the internet and I got AV ware with active updates.

 

I think he was talking about anti-spyware rather than anti-virus, noppid, but your comment about needing updates is applicable to both.

And yes there are plenty of freeware versions of both as well. There really is no excuse for NOT protecting your system any more -- if you won't do it for yourself, do it for the rest of us who have to deal with clogged mail servers as a result of all the infected computers out there belonging to people who didn't feel they needed protection.

See Utilities for Basic Computer Security.

 

I use SpySweeper from Webroot. It is a subscription service, but well worth it. It's found stuff that my old spyware blocker never did. I'm over 90,000 definitions just for spyware now... a crazy high number in my opinion.

 

I use three of them. In my experience, there is so much spyware out there that each catches something the others miss.