alternative to spybot?

[HENK]

i am pissed about that freeware and i am going to deinstal it .
it has giving me crashes and it does not update anymore,same with a friend of mine.
is there another alternative that i could use in combination with ad aware ?

[LA_MERC_Dirge]

Have you tried ad aware from lavasoft? It's a pretty good platform.

[Wyrm_f00d]

Free Online scann and fix
http://www.trendmicro.com/spyware-scan/

It looks like this link has several options
http://www.sofotex.com/download/Security/Anti-Spyware/

[HENK]

i use adaware in combination with spybot . to really clean your system you need both programms!!!!
spybot used to find tons of hax ad aware doesn't find ,so i need an alternative to spybot i guess.

[LA_MERC_Onji]

believe it or not man, microsoft's new program 'defender' (formally ms antispyware) has found more stuff that both of those programs for me. Give it a shot:

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx

[HENK]

as always ,i trust you onji
giving it a try right now.

[LA_MERC_Onji]

here are more if needed:



Anti Spyware:

Bazooka - http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/index.html
CWShredder - http://www.intermute.com/spysubtract/cwshredder_download.html
Hijackthis - http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html
SpywareBlaster - http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
SpywareGuard - http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareguard.html
WinPatrol - http://www.winpatrol.com/

[Daedelus]

holy cow your the man i usually use both spybot and adaware and thought they where sufficiant. but i just dl'ed the windows one it was fast like 1 min to down load and ran it sure enough found 3 severe ratings so i had them removed. thanks for the great info one more time :)

[LA_MERC_MadMAX]

If you don't mind paying for something - I like both Pest Patrol and Spysweeper. I use Pest Patrol myself.

Both of these are different than the free ones (exept the MS one) because they have active protection like AV software.

[LA_MERC_Dirge]

anyone got a way to download defender and bypass the validation windowsa thingy?

[LA_MERC_th33_r00k]

I downloaded it and saved it to a disc if that helps?