That's weird, I swear by Spybot. I've got everyone at work using it now, too. Can't believe it missed something so obvious.

 

You got the *real* Spybot, right? The one with the thumbprint icon? There's a faker commercial-y venture out there that manages to make itself come up first on Google when you search "spybot"

 

 

 

Edit: If I was ALLOWED to go to work, which I'm not...

The icon on my version is two windows with a spyglass, the thumbprint is used on the internal logo though. Its the genuine one though as its from a coverdisk ;)

Anyway it lists coolwwwsearch but not coolwebsearch. Perhaps they are the same...

It found coolwebsearch and coolwwwsearch. It just didn't get rid of them properly. And yes, it is the version with the thumbprint, but like Mike's it's on the program rather than the icon itself.

AARRGGHH!!!!!

 

on leaving the house last night I said to the babysitter 'fell free to use the internet'

 

today I have had to run adaware, spybot, hijack, system mechanic & delete 3 folders manually - it's taken over 30 mins to remove all the crap (including a 'helpfull' toolbar).

 

babysitter will NOT be invited to 'use the internet' next time.

Welcome to my world.

PC Licence.

 

I say no more.

 

(And no, the European Computer Driving Licence is NOT what I'm talking about)

babysitter is here now - she says 'it said I have to click yes to access the site'

 

aarrgghh

 

in other news: she did something similar on her own PC and agreed to a 09 style premium rate dial up number - luckily her son binned that after just £19 of browsing.

These people need to be forced to use Mozilla or something. It's for the best.

some people really shouldn't be allowed to play with PCs

I second that comment. Although not letting idiots use PCs would do a lot of us out of jobs.

I heard today that the local PC guy in town wanted £55 to 'equip a PC with sound' so this girl could chat online - he had the PC in the shop, so had no real excuse for not knowing she only needed a microphone

 

so you're right, some are making a good living from numptys

Spybot works a lot better if run from the Advanced setting, using that to access and activate the "hosts" file.

 

I use Spybot and Adaware with great success, and both are updated daily if possible.

Well I run Spybot in advanced mode. What's this about the hosts file?

 

I would update it daily, but it hasn't found any updates in a while. Maybe I have an old version.

Update to version 1.2 for Spybot if necessary.

 

The Hosts file resides in settings, but unless you enable Advanced mode, I think it might be Hell's own job to find it. <G>

 

I found it like I found all the other computer stuff I "know" - by accident.
<G>

 

Also, the latest version of Adaware is 6.00, build 6.181. Older versions will not update as I recall.

 

Spybot is sometimes slow to download updates if busy. Try changing the mirror to a U.S. site if you have difficulties. Conversly, U.S. users should try to use UniDo to take advantage of the time differential. ;-)

Hmmm, I have 1.2 of Spybot. They obviously don't update so often as Adaware does (something like every 2 days).

I can't understand how adaware works, it keeps saying my core files are out of date and gives me a url to download new ones. So I do that and install them.

 

Then I use the auto-update feature and it says there are updates available, I download the updates and then it says my core files are out of date again :(

 

Every time I use auto-update it downgrades adaware again :(

 

Hence I now only use spybot.

How odd. Did you have the latest build of Adaware?

You are correct, sir! They do not update as often.

You should have version 6.00, build 6.181 or it will do that.

I had the free one from their website, there is a message on their download site saying the core files need to be updated too though.

 

Anyway I think spybot is a bit better, seems to detect more stuff :)

 

Mike