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I was told that PeerGuardian is a good program to keep spyware and other such crap from being set up on your computer. Is that true, and if so, what is your opinions on the program?

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Registry Cleaning Tool

 

RegCleaner - easy to use tool that helps you clean out your registry and start up files.  Much easier to use than doing it manually.

 

I used to use the above program, and then they just showed the free file of the day on Call for Help. Easycleaner does a whole lot more than RegCleaner and it has a better interface and is a lot easier to use than RegCleaner.

 

EasyCleaner

 

The site is sorta slow, Im guessing due to a lot of traffic, but it only took me 10 minutes to download the file on my slow connection.

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New Additions to the main list:

 

Trend Micro PC-Cillian Online House Call - Online Virus Scan.

 

Panda Platinum 7 Anti-virus - Another good anti virus program that has 1 year of free updates.

 

Emisoft On Demand Trojan Scanner Another free on demand Trojan Scanner.

 

Spyware Blaster Another spyware removal tool. Free but I haven't tried it yet

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Guest Danny Dubya v 2.0

Instant Messaging

 

WinGaim

 

The windows port of Gaim, the default multi-screenname, multi-service instant messaging client for Linux distros, it is (by my experience) very similar to Trillian, as well as a quicker and smaller program. Works with AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, MSN, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu and Zephyr networks (if anyone even uses the last three). There are also no ads in this program and a really, really straight-forward interface.

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I think I found the best possible Malware/Spyware/Trojan/cure all in one program called Pest Patrol. When Ad-Ware or Spybot Search & Destroy don't do the job use this program but be careful as it will list P2P programs as liability risk. This great program will go after those annoying browser hijackers that keep on popping up after reboots! This program will go after cookies that pop up every time you restart your computer also and will protect you from keystoke loggers.

 

I found found a hack of this program then ran the update which found 36 more liability risks.

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So I'm finding that every time I run Windows Media Player 9, AVG comes up with a warning about something in my "system32" folder. Something like that. Anyway, the first time, I went through AVG and it "fixed" the problem by removing some core component of WMP9.

 

Is there a way to set AVG to just.. ignore WMP9 or something?

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Umm... there may be something that is attaching itself to Windows Media Player or AVG is miss-reading something (it happens because AVG uses heurestics (sp) to look for things behaving like a virus).

 

Try downloading Avast! or something (from the list) and scan your system and see if it picks up anything.

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Spyware/Adware Removing Tools

 

Spybot S&D - One of the most up-to-date removal tools you can get.  You'll find a lot of crap on your computer

 

Ad-Aware - Good program.  Not as good as Spybot but will pick up some stuff Spybot might miss.  Same with Spybot picking up stuff Ad-Aware misses.

 

Spyware Blaster Another spyware removal tool.  Free but I haven't tried it yet.

 

HijackTHIS - Removes browser hijacking (redirecting to other sites like Casino site when you are trying to go to Google.com etc).

I downloaded all of these except for spywareblaster (not available), and I still get ads popping up. Now what?

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I must say Adware/Viruses are becoming disturbing.

 

I got one that popped up kiddie porn on my fucking computer. I fucking freaked out and pretty much got a new computer (which was needed anyway), but I'm afraid to get the old, treasured filed off my old computer. I actually think I got rid of it, with a million different programs, but once they were through my C drive, necessary dll files were delted. How scary is that? It pretty much scarred me.

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Just as a note to all of you with Ad-Aware 6, there is a new build now. Ad-Aware SE Build 1.03. So far it seems to be a good improvement from 6.

 

Also, while I'm here. Windows XP SP2 is avaliable through Windows recources for professionals. HERE. If you Dl this though, be warned, you need to manually set the virus protection to user managed if you have Norton or (dear God, i hope not) McAfee. Use with caution.

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Does anyone use the Thunderbird 0.8 email client by Mozilla? What's the word on the street about that? It's different from the client that is part of the Mozilla Suite.

 

And has anyone else noticed that the Mozilla website looks fine in IE, but is completely fucked up in Opera. Ironic.

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Guest bottyboy

How do you burn video games? what equipment do you need? and how complicated is it?

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So Rant, what's the best protection I can get for around $100?

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