Ad-Aware is pretty effective, albeit a touch slow and suspicious. I’ll take that any day over the ad/spy/bad-ware, or whatever the hell they’re calling the crap that won’t even let me play solitare without signing me up for some damn casino.
It’s almost enough to make a body switch to Linux.
So how many things did Ad-Aware remove on the first run? When I first got it a couple of years ago, it found several hundred (mostly tracking cookies). I tightened up my cookie settings, and now it maybe finds three or four per week.
March 30th, 2004 at 12:09 pm
The correct terminology is that Ad-Aware rids your machine of “spyware”.
March 30th, 2004 at 12:14 pm
I’m not current on my computer terminology.
March 30th, 2004 at 12:26 pm
Ad-Aware is pretty effective, albeit a touch slow and suspicious. I’ll take that any day over the ad/spy/bad-ware, or whatever the hell they’re calling the crap that won’t even let me play solitare without signing me up for some damn casino.
It’s almost enough to make a body switch to Linux.
Almost.
March 30th, 2004 at 1:00 pm
WOOHOO Im famous!
Glad I could help Uncle, keep up the great work!
March 30th, 2004 at 2:12 pm
So how many things did Ad-Aware remove on the first run? When I first got it a couple of years ago, it found several hundred (mostly tracking cookies). I tightened up my cookie settings, and now it maybe finds three or four per week.
March 30th, 2004 at 2:18 pm
Today, it got like 54.
March 30th, 2004 at 2:29 pm
Ad-aware alone does not do it for me. I also use Webroot Spysweeper. Two heads are better than one.
Also, don’t forget to keep updating the adware/spyware catalogs.