Adware remover

[Cid Highwind]

Can anyone direct me to one ( free prefered )
If such a thing exists...

because I've heard rumors of adware removers who were fake or contained virusses, are these rumors true?

[Peppage]

Their are 2 that I know of. adaware (http://www.lavasoftusa.com/) and spybot (http://www.safer-networking.org/). I personally use just spybot but a lot of people use both. It is just personal preference I think.

[Cid Highwind]

THANKS Peppage!

I will try Spybot then :)

thanks again

[mortal kombat master]

Can anyone direct me to one ( free prefered )
If such a thing exists...

because I've heard rumors of adware removers who were fake or contained virusses, are these rumors true?

get Ad-Aware or nortons antivirus, i use both.

[Psych]

get both that peppage suggested i got both of those and if one doesn't clean something then the other one will

[Neo 4]

Spybot seems better to me. :cool:

[{VD}MyStIkAL]

ad aware is way better..i used spybot and aftre i used it i scanned again with ad aware and i found a 100 spyware spybot didnt catch..-.-

[Psych]

i do that the other way around and spybot catches a bunch that adaware didnt too

[Peppage]

yes a lot of people say they are complimentary to each other. I figure adaware just counts cookies as something it has to delete.

[Redgore]

yes a lot of people say they are complimentary to each other. I figure adaware just counts cookies as something it has to delete.
They pick up different things because of small differences in the engines that they use. Using both is a very good idea.

[Skeleton Lord]

i use all three hehe :D :P

[Aqua]

I use ad-aware and Norton AntiVirus, never heard of Spybot before. I might check it out^^

[Dragon Fire]

use Ad-aware....... SpyBot gave me spam! how dare they!!!! :mad: :eek:

[Aqua]

use Ad-aware....... SpyBot gave me spam! how dare they!!!! :mad: :eek:
*doesn't check it out* :P

[Squall_14]

click on the link, its free: Http://lavasoft.elements.com/support/download

[shecky95]

i have both and and yes they r free and r very handy in doing the job. how ever spybot does come up with a message that it detects that u have adaware software just click ok and it still does it job only 1 draw back for me ( from my point of view) if u download a certain programs it will come up with a message that u have a trojan and then u run then scan it dont detect it sorry all this is from my point of view here and im new so plz be gentle lol :D

[shecky95]

i also run AVG 6.0 antivirus and it still dont pick it up sorry new and trying to be helpful ( i also update my files all the time like everyday) :cool:

[Redgore]

false positives will always happen with any sort of trojan and virus detection just because many copy part if not all the code from a legit program.