New Anti-Spyware Program

[mathgirl32]

the only thing is.... Spy Sweeper crashed my box (twice) scanning a 300 MB zip file (openoffice)

I just installed and ran Spy Sweeper and it crashed my machine twice, too!! I currently use Spybot Search and Destroy and PestPatrol (and a few other things) and have never had any problems. I was wondering what some of you think of these two products compared with some of the other things available.

[Zonewalker]

interesting, I've just used Spy sweeper..... didn't crash my system incidentally so it looks like it could be a sporadic issue with crashing - and I do have both Ad aware and Spybot search & destroy on my XP box so I wouldn't be so sure that its these prorams causing the crashes.

However I was rather horrified to learn that two pieces of legit software I have (Dance Ejay 2 and Dance Ejay 4 - if anyones interested - I have them for recreational use) apparently have key loggers built into them called e-surveillance!! As I've had both of these progs on the WinXP box for over a year (note that neither Ad-aware and Spybot detected these keyloggers!) I'm a teensy bit pissed off....... read that as being effing livid! So I'd suggest people at least give this Spy sweeper a chance.

I'm off to make noises to the folks who produce the Dance Ejay series now


Z

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Yet again a company/corporation taking advantage of their program being popular. Not mentioning anyone (MS). This is unfortuneate to hear, are you sure it's not a false positive tho?

I might install this now, even if it is shareware!

[jxrry59]

I install (2days ago??) and it does pick up things others miss and vice versa. I did however also install outpost, the firewall, after reading a post about the same time and that catches a lot of crap (ads).
I use advanced system optimizer, the cleaner, anti-trojan, spybot search and destroy (read the eula, it is pretty cool) , ad aware and now, spy sweeper. I actually like the shareware(home pc) because there is something new and better coming out every couple of weeks to help protect against the scum out there.
Nice post

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Cannot Recommend this product enough, found two RAT's that Housecall, Panda Active Scan, and avast didn't find. Even if it is shareware , DOWNLOAD IT AND SCAN NOW!!

[Zonewalker]

Collapse.. no I can't guarantee that my findings aren't false positives.... however I have written to the folks who make E-Jay and given them a chance to refute Spy Sweepers claims. I suspect they won't respond but I'll keep you all posted if they do.

I for one am not happy about the thought that a lot of my projects may have been captured by this potential keylogger and sent to some company who frankly have no right to view what I write. And yeah I agree it's appalling that a company would even do this.... I can just about cope with demographics being made available for marketing purposes etc... but having a keylogger installed as part of the software.....that is going a bit far if you ask me.

Z