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Re: [Digital BW] OT -- Spybot for internet advertising cookies detection

2003-10-02 by Anthony Atkielski

I'm surprised that people are willing to download and run anything that
claims to remove spybots.  Unless you've looked at the source code for the
removal utility, how do you know that it isn't installing something of its
own?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Roark" <paul.roark@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 06:35
Subject: RE: [Digital BW] OT -- Spybot for internet advertising cookies
detection


> Andre,
>
> Thanks for the lead.  I just downloaded Ad-aware and it found 145 problems
> that had escaped Spybot.  Makes one wonder how many more are lurking in
> there un-detected.
>
> Paul
> http://www.PaulRoark.com
> __________________________________________
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sceptre12345 [mailto:am1000@...]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 5:42 PM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Digital BW] Re: OT -- Spybot for internet advertising cookies
> detection
>
>
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Roark"
> <paul.roark@v...> wrote:
>
> > Spybot is available at http://www.safer-networking.org/
> >
> > Paul
> > http://www.PaulRoark.com
>
> Paul,
> I've been using Spybot for a few months now. But I've been also using
> Ad-aware 6.0 available at
> http://download.com.com/
>
> What one spyware remover does not find, the other will. In fact I
> find that both are needed. Sad but true!
> Cheers,
> Andre
>
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