mummer43 Posted February 7, 2005 CID Share Posted February 7, 2005 When I run AdAware and it gioves the the list of files or cookies or whatever, do I delete them or leave them in quarantine? Thanks!! p.s. Is there a better program out there than AdAware? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim2006 Posted February 7, 2005 CID Share Posted February 7, 2005 Well I would choose remove or delete but you can do either if you want!!! But I would recommend you delete them!!! And yes there is a better program from microsoft called microsoft antispyware!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disturbed Posted February 7, 2005 CID Share Posted February 7, 2005 yeah......but i think that spybot search and destroy does it just fine i use both anyway.....well all 3 of them: adware, spybot and the microsoft's new thing.....lol along with avast antivirus.......its all a preference....id chose spybot over microsoft's stuff any day ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
just- Posted February 7, 2005 CID Share Posted February 7, 2005 i use ad aware i delete them i dont like the idea of still having them about in my pc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MICROWAVE Posted February 7, 2005 CID Share Posted February 7, 2005 Yep delete is the way to go, unless there is some possibility that its a needed file or cookie...... it doesnt really hurt to be on the PC but it doesnt help either.... Microwave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deltamusic Posted February 7, 2005 CID Share Posted February 7, 2005 yeah......but i think that spybot search and destroy does it just fine i use both anyway.....well all 3 of them: adware, spybot and the microsoft's new thing.....lol along with avast antivirus.......its all a preference....id chose spybot over microsoft's stuff any day ... MS AntiSpyware vs Ad-Aware vs SpyBot - Results To test how many infected files Microsoft AntiSpyware may have missed, we ran a scan using Ad-Aware and SpyBot immediately after running Microsoft AntiSpyware Beta. Ad-aware revealed that Microsoft AntiSpyware failed to detect 272 critical objects including 73 registry keys, 107 registry values, 89 files and 3 folders. Choosing not to remove any of the files identified and closing Ad-Aware, SpyBot S&D was used to scan the machine in able to see how many infected files it can identify. SpyBot reported 61 problems clearly not as many as Ad-Aware but still surprising that some infected files from Gator where still present on the machine. Ad-Aware Results and SpyBot Results Reverting the virtual machine to the point just before any spyware scan was ran, it was time to test how many infected files Microsoft AntiSpyware would find after an Ad-Aware scan. The first Ad-Aware scan revealed 1309 infected objects and a second scan immediately after a reboot resulted in 291 more infected objects reported. After removal of those objects, we ran Microsoft AntiSpyware Beta. AntiSpyware Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted February 7, 2005 CID Share Posted February 7, 2005 go figure Microsoft finding more crap than the competor in the own code!!! they know where the stuff likes to hide Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VanBuren Posted February 7, 2005 CID Share Posted February 7, 2005 go figure Microsoft finding more crap than the competor in the own code!!! they know where the stuff likes to hide so true i use em all, Spybot, Ad-aware, and Microsoft AntiSpyware and i suggest all to do this if one program misses the other 2 program clean it up VanBuren Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disturbed Posted February 7, 2005 CID Share Posted February 7, 2005 exactly.....i wish they all combined their "technologies" and made it all available to us Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Posted February 7, 2005 CID Share Posted February 7, 2005 exactly.....i wish they all combined their "technologies" and made it all available to us i used to wish that until i remembered that having them separate keeps them competing. if they all combined into one, they could charge a really high price for it, then never update it becuase theyre the only ones who make an anti-spyware program, so they really dont have to... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MICROWAVE Posted February 7, 2005 CID Share Posted February 7, 2005 i used to wish that until i remembered that having them separate keeps them competing. if they all combined into one, they could charge a really high price for it, then never update it because theyre the only ones who make an anti-spyware program, so they really dont have to... Cobra I agree with you 100%, this has kept competion exactly the way its supposed 2b...... nice call :) microwave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
budbem Posted February 7, 2005 CID Share Posted February 7, 2005 i run internet cleanup (cheap program that i got for free with rebate) it deletes and not only deletes but overwrites your catcheted stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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