Malware Removal Procedures

Malware removal can be a tricky process. Our aim is to provide safe methods of removing malware which sometimes includes guiding you through a step by step assessment, analysis and removal process. Its very important that each part of this process be followed closely. Its very important you begin by providing some brief information on [...]

Finding the Cream of the Crop in the Internet Privacy Arena

As I look across the last year I note some disturbing trends in the fight for privacy on the Internet. Commercial operations are jumping into the arena using very questionable marketing tactics, all sorts of developers are beginning to compete in vicious ways, and one freeware provider has even left millions of users vunerable with [...]

Is the real Ad-aware behind door #1, door #2 or door #3 ???

If the past 5 months are an indicator of what’s to come from Lavasoft products then users will be very busy trying to keep current with updates. As of May 5, 2002 Ad-aware is on version 5.81 with a new Reffile update (ref 009-05-05-02) and a new version of RefUpdate. Just five days prior a [...]

The Conclusion?

The Lavasoft and Radlight saga continues. Yesterday in my commentary The Response I explained how Radsoft had added a segment to the install routine of Radsoft Media Player that deletes Ad-aware. Lavasoft today released an update for Ad-aware that targets Radlight Media Player for deletion. PepiMK Software added Radlight to SpyBotSD’s target list as well. [...]

Spybot Search & Destroy 1.0 – part5

Tests and Conclusion Our testing was primarily designed to review ease of use, features, options, and find potential bugs. I did some minor detection tests. But in no way was it a thorough benchmark test. That would really be required to determine SpybotS&Ds’ effectiveness in detecting and safely removing bots and applications. I received a [...]

Spybot Search & Destroy 1.0 – part4

Updates and more The next area is the Online section. It is here that updates can be downloaded and installed, current Spybot information and news is obtained, bug reporting is done and the Opt out section is located. It is also where files can be verified authentic using PGP (Pretty Good Privacy). If you have [...]

Spybot Search & Destroy 1.0 – part3

Excludes The Exclude section is where any target can be excluded from searches on an individual basis. There are tabs for Product, Cookie, Extension and Single Excludes. The first tab is Product excludes. This section has separate areas for Dialers, Hijackers, Keyloggers, Security, Spybots, Trojans, and usage Tracks. (A screenshot of any of those sections [...]

Spybot Search & Destroy 1.0 – part2

Settings As stated once the installation was complete the application opened and the user is presented with the settings page. I find this to be an exceptionally great concept. So many applications require searching for the the location to make changes. Not with SpybotS&D. It is the first thing seen on completion of initial installation. [...]

Spybot Search & Destroy 1.0 – part1

Introduction: Spybot Search & Destroy 1.0 is a tool every computer user should have and use daily. SpybotS&D 1.0 is the long awaited first final release after a very lengthy and thorough beta testing and development process. SpybotS&D was written and developed by PepiMK Software, a German software developer originally for the purposes of eliminating [...]

RegRun Security Suite 3

RegRun Security Suite 3 is the new version of the award-winning startup manager and is probably one of the best developed and tested programs available today. In fact, in our opinion it is one of the best applications we’ve seen in the last 2 years! It gets our top rating!! Once installed this application immediately [...]