Is Spybot S&D (Search & Destroy) ... kicks butt. Works very well. Windows-only.

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Prevents Adware and Spyware infestation. Free; many frequent updates. Immunizes your system as well as cleans it up. Rocks like Pantera.

BigJohn

AWSOME!!!
I had to pay for my spy sweeper, and hte guy who sold it to me when I was getting my laptop said 95% of all the people who brought there computer in to him for repairs DIDN'T have spy sweeper, so I thought, AWSOME!!! i won't have to worry about it! I didn't know he meant no one bought it cuz it sucks.
well I'll try this one and pray it works
thanks bigjohn

, Klim!

BigJohn

stoopid lying @#$% @#$% salespeople!

well i thought it worked, but it didn't
i still have the same problem
bigjohn, do you know how to delete things that say they are being used by another program?
I went to my task manager and ended everything I wasn't doing under the Processes tab, then I tried to delete them manually, but it still gave me that massage

he told me how to do that on my Mac yesterday, but it's probably different on a PC.

(the topic is in here though, if you wanna try...)

I'll take a look in a bit
it's not bugging me right now so I'm gonna leave it alone for now
now I'm having flash issues, but I'll get past it

I'll reply in the other topic about deleting stubborn files, to keep the topics in order.

BigJohn

I got spy bot it rocks

I've been using SpyBot and Ad-Aware side by side for some time now (better safe than sorry) and just recently I discovered third free and effective one: Microsoft AntiSpyware. A very creativley named spyware extermination program by Microsoft. I've been using all three for a couple of weeks now and I have to say that I prefer it over the others. Have you heard of it, BigJohn?

No, I haven't heard of it! I'll have to go check it out!

BigJohn