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For John Robie - re Email forwarding ...

by Mosonnow Apr 11, 2004 4:11AM PDT

Der John

I forget which Forum this was discussed in, but Larry D's post might be one for known forwarders ...

http://reviews.cnet.com/5208-6142-0.html?forumID=5&threadID=19272&messageID=206831

The next post says "Flash is Evil" - I guess humorously - but SpywareBlster 3.1 (see Marianna's post about new version release) includes a flash-killer if anyone is interested.

http://reviews.cnet.com/5208-6132-0.html?forumID=32&threadID=18888&messageID=203320

Regards
Mo

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Re:For John Robie - re Email forwarding ...

by John Robie Apr 11, 2004 10:33AM PDT

Hi Mo,

Thanks, I had missed LarryD's post with his humorous link about emails. The posts, I belived that was discussed about "FWD" emails and my comment:

http://reviews.cnet.com/5208-6121-0.html?forumID=45&threadID=18367&messageID=199521

Also, I already have AdAware and SpyBot. Just now reading Marianna post since you brought it up. Looks interesting...need to read all the comments and will probably download.

Thanks,
John

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Re forwarding and spyware ...

by Mosonnow Apr 11, 2004 10:25PM PDT

Dear John

The "forwarding" thread is still active, so clearly an important issue, and many acknowledging your BCC handy tip.

The SpywareBlaster's primary aim is to act like a firewall but for spyware, diallers etc rather than viruses and trojans which AV and firewalls pick up.

I've had version 3.0 for many months and have just downloaded 3.1 via the primary download site with no problem - I guess the initial rush for the new version has died down a bit.

SpywareBlaster, SpywareGuard and MRU Blaster (Javacool and Wilders Security) all try to stop things getting onto your machine. You need to have them running at startup (specifically Internet startup) and they are thus in memory and using resources, but have small footprints. Adaware and Spybot (amongst others) are brilliant at taking things out once they have got in. But things that are "in" are there until you run these latter programs.

To quote Grif - Hope this helps.

Regards
Mo

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Thanks Mo for the good info about SpywareBlaster....I didn't know.

by John Robie Apr 12, 2004 5:15AM PDT

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