Which spyware and virus removal works best? Are they worth the money?

Answer 1

Ad-aware works very well and it is free....


http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad-aware_se_personal.php

Answer 2

Don't spend money when you can use state of the art technology that is far superior then any of the purchase software. Here are three that I use in my computers.

Please know that you can only use one antivirus program. Or you will have serious conflict with your system. You can use two or three antispyware programs without conflict.

Here are three free program that I have in my computer and they all are compatible and cause no conflict.

Antivirus: http://www.avast.com This is excellent state of the art technology. Has a real time scanner running in the background that really detects and destroys viruses found in a webpage or file in realtime. You will also get updates two or three times per day. Plus you get a pop up from your tray that will advise you that virus updates have been installed. Or a virus has been found and destroyed. If you have your spearks on a male voice will come on an inform you about the updates or a virus found.

They will ask you for your email address so they can send you their free home for use personal version. The key is good for one year. After one year you must request a new key. Their corporate version is 100% the same, they just make corporate pay. (Company out of Prague).

htttp://www.emsisoft.com Excellent state of the art spyware program that gives you protection from, spyware, malware, trojans, rogue dialers, etc. etc. Just download thier free version A2-Squared V.2 Likewise they will ask you for your email address so they can send you your free key. This program has an excellent background scanner that comes with the paid version. The free version will fill all of your needs. Scans all 195,000 objects in my system. (Company out of Austria).

http://www.ewido.net (This was a German software company purchase this year by "AVG", out of Prague). Use the http that I gave you. This program is very much like the A2Squared free.
In my personal opinion it is faster and finds more spyware. This program becomes free, if you don't purchase after thirty days. They will only remove the background guard. (The A2Squared free as a better background guard). And your updates will have to be done on a manual basis.

I have used all thre and never had one virus in my systems in over nine years.

You will find that the purchased programs don't come anywhere near the technology found in the above free versions.

Stay away from Nortons, Mcafee, as they are pure garbage and resource hogs. Also for spyware, stay away from superantispyware. They really have an excellent antispyware program that detects what other may miss. This is a free program. The problem is two of the above programs found adware embedded in superantispyware.

For zero day attacks, download this free program http://www.cyberhawk.com (Protects you against attacks that can come before any security company is aware of new viruses or trojans and spyware.

Rootkit detector is built into the A2Squared.

Clinical Psychiatrist, France

Excuse my english

Answer 3

For spyware there is no one product that will fix all. There are a lot of free ones. Spybot, HiJackTHIS, CWSredder, to name a few. One that I bought and love is Pest Patrol. They have now been bought out so not sure if its been changed or not.
For Virus I have only used McAfee, and ETrust. I have had some run ins with Norton its good but I feel it can be a system hog. What ever you do just be sure to keep a virus program on your PC at all times & keep the data files updated.

Answer 4

I can give you some sites that provide free virus remoers...! You may be having a virus or spyware installed on your PC. Norton, AVG , Avast are free antivirus software. Ad-aware, Ewido are free spyware removers. You can download free softwares at
http://fixit.in/antivirus.html and http://fixit.in/spywareremover.html

Answer 5

For your anti-spyware needs:
Here you are:

Pick and choose at least 2 from the list below. New spywares are created literally hourly, so no single anti-spyware can really detect all malware. Have at least 2 on hand and alternate scanning with each every few days or so. All are free. All can remove as well as detect.

Spybot Search and Destroy:

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/spybotsd/index.html

Ewido:

http://www.ewido.net/en/download/

Adaware SE:

http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/

A-Squared:

http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/

Windows Defender (Beta 2):

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

Unfortunately, many "paid for" anti-spyware products are in fact either of limited usefulness or downright scams. When in doubt, look at the list of rogue anti-spyware solutions listed here:

http://www.spywarewarrior.com/rogue_anti-spyware.htm


And to protect your computer from ever getting infected with spyware in the first place, you can use these 2 freebies:

SpywareBlaster:

http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

SiteAdvisor:

http://www.siteadvisor.com/

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For your anti-virus needs:

Here is a list of all the major free anti-virus programs:

Avast:
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html

Anti-Vir:
http://www.free-av.com/

AOL AntiVirusShield:
http://www.activevirusshield.com/antivirus/freeav/index.adp?

AVG:
http://free.grisoft.com/doc/avg-anti-virus-free/lng/us/tpl/v5

BitDefender 8: (on-demand only, no real-time protection)
http://www.bitdefender.com/PRODUCT-14-en--BitDefender-8-Free-Edition.html

Clamwin: (on-demand only, no real-time protection)
http://www.clamwin.com/


All are fairly mediocue compared to some of the top rated (paid) anti-virus programs such as Kaspersky (KAV) or Eset NOD-32. But you can't beat the price.

Answer 6

Gonna tell ya off the hop Dont spend money! All you need is Avast anti virus it is Quite highly ranked and Ad-aware SE personal Both are free just Google it and you will have your programs

Answer 7

No they're not worth the money, because there are plenty of quality anti-spyware/virus progs out there that are free. For example:

Avira Anti-Vir - http://www.free-av.com/

Spybot S&D - http://www.safer-networking.org/

Ad-Aware - http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/

Answer 8

I don't know about all the expensive virus remover stuff, but there's a free program called AntiVir. You can always try that and if it doesn't work, you havn't lost anything.

hope i was a help! ;]

Answer 9

Try some of these:

Spyware, Adware, Trojans, Malware, Dialers, Keyloggers, Popups:
http://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-SE-Personal-Edition/3003-8022_4-10399602.html?tag=tab_rev
http://www.ewido.net/en/download/
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
http://www.download.com/Bazooka-Adware-and-Spyware-Scanner/3000-8022-10247782.html
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/sgdownload.html
http://www.safer-networking.org/
http://www.download.com/HijackThis/3000-8022_4-10379544.html
http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/download/
Online Scanners:
http://www.webroot.com/consumer/products/spysweeper/freescan.html?
http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx
http://www.pandasoftware.com/products/activescan.htm
http://www.bitdefender.com/scan8/ie.html
http://www.windowsecurity.com/trojanscan/
http://www.kaspersky.com/virusscanner
http://www.spywareguide.com/onlinescan.php
http://housecall65.trendmicro.com/
Spyware, Adware, Trojans, Malware, Dialers, Keyloggers, Popups Lists:
http://www.softpedia.com/catList/104
http://www.download.com/Adware-Spyware-Removal/3150-8022_4-0.html?tag=dir
http://www.majorgeeks.com/downloads31.html
http://www.filehippo.com/software/antispyware/setarea
http://www.soft32.com/s/Windows/Security/AntiSpyware/3-9-0-0.html
Antivirus:
http://www.grisoft.com/
http://www.avast.com/
http://www.free-av.com/
Antivirus Lists:
http://www.softpedia.com/catList/1
http://www.download.com/Antivirus/3150-2239_4-0.html?tag=dir
http://www.majorgeeks.com/downloads29.html
http://www.filehippo.com/software/antivirus/
http://www.soft32.com/s/Windows/Security/Antivirus/3-1-0-0.html
Firewall:
http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/products/znalm/freeDownload.jsp?dc=12bms&ctry=US&lang=en&lid=staticcomp_za
Firewall Lists:
http://www.softpedia.com/catList/97
http://www.download.com/Firewalls/3150-10435_4-0.html?tag=dir
http://www.majorgeeks.com/downloads34.html
http://www.filehippo.com/software/firewalls/
http://www.soft32.com/s/Windows/Security/Firewalls/3-5-0-0.html
IP Blocker:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/peerguardian/pg2-050918-nt.exe?download
Browser:
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/
Email, News, RSS:
http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/
System Cleaner:
http://www.ccleaner.com/
System Cleaning List:
http://www.softpedia.com/catList/98
http://www.majorgeeks.com/downloads12.html
http://www.filehippo.com/software/cleaning/
System Info:
http://www.softpedia.com/catList/92
http://www.majorgeeks.com/downloads9.html
http://www.soft32.com/s/Windows/System_Utilities/System_Tools/3-50-0-0.html

Answer 10

They are worth the money if you dont pay for it. Here's a good list of
free ones you should try before you buy.http://www.basicspywaretips.com/getridofspyware.html

Answer 11

Give up using Windows, and install Linux on your computer. Linux is immune to all viruses, malware, spyware and adware.

BE COOL - GET LINUX

DC :)