Friday, January 12, 2007

Spyware - Read the Reviews


Read the Reviews
Australian PC World - If you decide to keep a particular piece of spyware on your system, you don't want it setting off alarms every time you perform an anti-spyware scan. A white-list system works like a firewall's allow/disallow system - you indicate that you've allowed

Kill Two Birds with One Stone
MCPmag.com - A machine-based scan copies an instance of the spyware scan engine to the target machine and runs the scan locally. This improves the scan speed, as each machine is responsible for running its own scan. Machine-based scans also

Yahoo, Symantec unveil Internet security service
ABS-CBN - In addition, Symantec will also offer Norton Spyware scan for the Yahoo Toolbar and a co-branded toolbar that offers more direct links to other security tools. It will also offer its antivirus and online firewall protections on Yahoo's Online

Cloud737's blog
Gamespot News - After a spyware scan (with spybot) and a reboot, the situation was the same. So I installed PC-Cillin, and found that I had the nasty thing all over my HDD. And not only that, it was even an active process in svchost, a process I cannot terminate

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Digital Game Developer - The Quad-Father of Computing? By John Virata Imagine being able to compose an email, perform a spyware scan, burn a DVD, and rip a CD simultaneously on the same PC. Or encode a video, play a game, edit an image, and Skype your friends at the same time

F-Secure Internet Security 2007
ABC News - F-Secure's integrated virus and spyware scan incorporates the company's BlackLight rootkit protection technology. It took about 22 minutes to scan my standard clean system, so it's not especially fast or slow; Norton and PC-Cillin took about 30