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Synthetic Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: under your rug, Insane since: Jul 2001	posted 12-03-2002 01:57 I've always been big on finding the best ways to keep that junk off my system... While i've always loved Ad-aware & PestPatrol for spyware removal and detection. But what about flat out prevention from it ever being downloaded from your browser? Well until recently I wasn't aware that i could, well you can It's called SpywareBlaster v1.1 quote: SpywareBlaster doesn't scan and clean for spyware - it prevents it from ever being installed. How? By setting a "kill bit" for the CLSIDs of spyware ActiveX controls, it prevents the installation of any of them from a webpage. You can run Internet Explorer with Active-X enabled, but you will never even get a "Yes/No" box popped up, asking you to install a spyware Active-X control (Internet Explorer will never download or run it!). All other Active-X controls or plug-ins will work fine. The SpywareBlaster database contains information on these known spyware Active-X controls. Make sure you run the Check For Updates feature frequently to get the latest database! (And make sure you check the new items to protect your system against them!) As a side benefit, setting this "kill bit" will also prevent the spyware Active-X from running, in many cases, if it is already installed on your system.* And that is just one of the great freeware products I found on http://www.wilders.org/ security resource site Do you know of other great softwares for dealing with or removing spyware? Feel free to post em here
NoJive Maniac (V) Inmate From: The Land of one Headlight on. Insane since: May 2001	posted 12-03-2002 02:13 Good stuff. Thank you. =)
Synthetic Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: under your rug, Insane since: Jul 2001	posted 12-21-2002 19:52 Cool beans! A new version of SpywareBlaster has been released, incase anyone did decide to use it, I recomend you download the new version... Download SpywareBlaster v2.0.1 from here

I've always been big on finding the best ways to keep that junk off my system...

While i've always loved Ad-aware & PestPatrol for spyware removal and detection.

But what about flat out prevention from it ever being downloaded from your browser? Well until recently I wasn't aware that i could, well you can

It's called SpywareBlaster v1.1

quote:
SpywareBlaster doesn't scan and clean for spyware - it prevents it from ever being installed.

How? By setting a "kill bit" for the CLSIDs of spyware ActiveX controls, it prevents the installation of any of them from a webpage. You can run Internet Explorer with Active-X enabled, but you will never even get a "Yes/No" box popped up, asking you to install a spyware Active-X control (Internet Explorer will never download or run it!). All other Active-X controls or plug-ins will work fine.

The SpywareBlaster database contains information on these known spyware Active-X controls. Make sure you run the Check For Updates feature frequently to get the latest database! (And make sure you check the new items to protect your system against them!)

As a side benefit, setting this "kill bit" will also prevent the spyware Active-X from running, in many cases, if it is already installed on your system.*

And that is just one of the great freeware products I found on http://www.wilders.org/ security resource site

Do you know of other great softwares for dealing with or removing spyware? Feel free to post em here