Note: You may have noticed that Spy Sweeper, Spyware Doctor, Spybot, and Ad-Aware are not mentioned in this guide. At one time all of them were considered premier tools. A lot has changed over the years, and all have inferior detection/removal capabilities compared to the programs and tools that are listed above. Please do not waste your time using them.
I was told, even today, that Spybot is still good for catching the sneaky ones, and it's saved my ass on a few occasions. As well as Ad-aware. This excerpt confuses me.
I was told, even today, that Spybot is still good for catching the sneaky ones, and it's saved my ass on a few occasions. As well as Ad-aware. This excerpt confuses me.
Hi Coffee,
I think you are being confused because you have gone beyond the best general advice you can get here.
I used both Ad-Aware and Spybot on an infected computer yesterday, Ad-Aware never found anything, Spybot did and supposedly removed the bad item.
Scanned with AVG and that did remove the bad item.
I think both Ad-Aware and Spybot have gone downhill drastically, considering they were the only ones to use at first when spyware was first making an appearance.
I mostly agree with the article and use all of the tools mentioned in his rogue cleanup toolkit along with a couple of others when cleaning up other machines.
I don't use Spyware Blaster as it bloats the registry with several thousand entries.