How much spyware do you have on your machine?

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How much spyware do you have on your machine?

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Well, I recently found out a program that supposedly would sniff out any and all spyware on my computer. Naively, I thought I did not have any... I found 318.

For all those who do not have one ( maybe I was the only one? ), I recommend Aluria's spyware eliminator.

My computer sure runs faster now!
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Re: How much spyware do you have on your machine?

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Estrosiath wrote:Well, I recently found out a program that supposedly would sniff out any and all spyware on my computer. Naively, I thought I did not have any... I found 318.

For all those who do not have one ( maybe I was the only one? ), I recommend Aluria's spyware eliminator.

My computer sure runs faster now!
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I find like, 8 pieces on it every day.. mostly tracking cookies.

When I first ran it I had 296 or something.
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Post by Winnow »

You'll find several free online virus scans here as well:

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=n ... virus+scan
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http://www.lavasoft.de

http://www.safer-networking.org

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i just ran the free trial of that aluria scanner, it found 2 things

Then ran the unbeatable duo of spybot+adware and it found like 30+ items including those 2 aluria found..

the aluria thing wouldnt even remove them till you buy the product, it just shows you them. why pay move when adware and spybot are free ?
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Yeah, everyone I know uses Spybot Search & Destroy.
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Ad Aware and Spybot are the win!
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128. Ouch...=/
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