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Be aware that AdAware takes money from companies to NOT be on there list
so it may not find everything.
<p>mike
<p>Stephen Dowdy wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>I've been using AdAware for some time now and it
works well.
<p>In addition, I use Spybot.
<p><a href="http://security.kolla.de/index.php?lang=en&page=download">http://security.kolla.de/index.php?lang=en&page=download</a>
<p>This software can find spyware on your system and remove it... and can
<br>immunize your system so that known spyware can not be installed without
you
<br>knowing it. When a known product (gator, doubleclick, etc)
is attempting
<br>to write cookies to your machine, spybot will intercept them.
You have
<br>options to ask for the cookies to be accepted or you can tell it to
ignore
<br>all of them. They provide updates similar to a DAT file for virus
<br>protection so that as new things hit the Internet, spybot can catch
the new
<br>things.
<p>AdAware only finds things once they are on your system... Spybot prevents
<br>them from even getting onto you system. It is freeware (although
donations
<br>are welcome). I've been using it for several months.
I have not
<br>installed it to all my machines in the office, although I am considering
it
<br>at this time.
<p>For AdAware, the free version works well, although some features are
only
<br>available if you pay a license. Spybot is free although they
would like
<br>donations. I'm wondering if MIT might consider making a
nice donation on
<br>behalf of MIT for Spybot and see about a license for AdAware.
<p>At 10:56 AM 9/16/2003 -0400, Tim Brennan wrote:
<br>>Hi Dave:
<br>>
<br>>As a first step I would recommend downloading /running a program
to
<br>>detect/remove "spyware" (advertiser tracking components) from the
PC. Ad
<br>>Aware is a good one. <a href="http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/">http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/</a>
<br>>
<br>>This should get rid of the most -- if not all -- pop ups. [Tip:
Run Ad
<br>>Aware regularly to keep your PC spyware free.]
<br>>
<br>>You can also download/install a pop up blocker from
<br>><a href="http://www.download.com">http://www.download.com</a> -- just
type pop up in the download.com search engine.
<br>>
<br>>Hope this helps,
<br>>Tim
<br>>
<br>>At 09:45 AM 9/16/2003 -0400, Dave Broderick wrote:
<br>>>Signficant Other started getting pop ups. She says she was not even
on a
<br>>>browser; she was doing Comcast email using Outlook, and the pop ups
kept
<br>>>coming. Is there a fix for these?
<br>>>
<br>>>David J. Broderick
<br>>>djbroder@mit.edu
<br>>> Audio Visual Project
Technician
<br>>> MIT AV 617 253 2808
<br>>> FAX 617 253 5945
<br>>> <<a href="http://web.mit.edu/djbroder/www">http://web.mit.edu/djbroder/www</a>><a href="http://web.mit.edu/djbroder/www">http://web.mit.edu/djbroder/www</a>
<br>>>
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