RE: Best spyware program

["Craig Wright" <cwright () bdosyd com au>]

All other major vendors found several high level Trojan's. M$ - still a
beta I do understand, did not

I agree that this is subjective. Leaving a well known key logger is not
in my opinion subjective

CSW 

-----Original Message-----
From: Doug.Janelle () Thermo com [mailto:Doug.Janelle () Thermo com] 
Sent: 30 July 2005 10:02
To: Craig Wright
Cc: nickledesma () gmail com; security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: RE: Best spyware program



It's stating the obvious (or at least it *should* be obvious), but
spyware detection is incredibly subjective. Each vendor decides what
will be on their list and what won't (see the recent flap about what MS
has taken *off* their list). Run any two (or three or four) anti-spyware
apps and they are likely to come up with different results. IMHO, the
best method is to run at least one pre-infection product that monitors
the registry, etc for suspicious changes (like Spybot's Tea Timer, et.
al) and at least two different, regularly updated post-infection
scanners. Trying to find a single app that will kill all spyware is a
fools' errand.

2-cents respectfully submitted by,

dcj2



I tried (M$ASW) this for a while - it told me I had no spyware. I have
tested this by going back to "Spyware Killer" which found 163 instances
and some fairly serious

Craig