How do I target certain bothersome SPYWARE/ADWARE?

Question

I run 4 or 5 types of spy/adware weekly or even daily and have done so on many PCs over the years. All of the sudden I've got a few that just won't go away. The worst of which is some company called "ZEDO Media" Is their something that I can do to target individual spy/adware?

Answer 1

Hi there. It sounds like you're doing pretty much doing what I do to try and get rid of the nasties. I might suggest you try Spbot Search & Destroy if you haven't already done so. Generally, the way I approach Spyware/Malware issues is that I use several different kinds of anti-malware software such as Webroot, Spybot, Hijack This!, Spyware Dr. etc. What one database doesn't catch, the other generally will. If all else fails, you can simply google "remove ZEDO Media" and this will usually turn up some pretty useful suggestions.

Hope this helps,
John aka tau_zeppelin

Answer 2

Get an 'internet security' disk like P-Cillin or Norton, and set that up to 'run' in the background. When you first 'start it' it will do a complete 'check' of your whole computer and will tell you what 'spyware/adware' is on it, and you can then 'delete' what you don't want, and tell it to 'accept' or 'trust' the ones you want to keep. After that, it will continue to run in the background, and will give you 'warnings' if you are about to open a program that has 'hidden' spyware/adware' and you can then decide whether to allow it or not ...

Answer 3

spybot has an immunize option that permanently blocks spyware, use it.