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Spyware?

by newbie_from_hell Mar 23, 2005 5:04AM PST

I'm running Spybot S&D on my computer here at work, and as I'm looking through the files it's running through, I see the following names:

Z-Demon
WebDialer
AdultChat
Look2Me

These sound like spyware to me - but S&D isn't catching them. What can I do?

Newbie From Hell

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Are you talking about the program names
by glb613 Mar 23, 2005 5:22AM PST

that scroll across the bottom of the screen while it is scanning? If so, those are the programs it is searching for on your computer. The spyware it finds are listed with checkmark boxes next to the name with the option to delete.

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Oh yeah. Duh.
by newbie_from_hell Mar 23, 2005 5:27AM PST

Uh, actually, yeah, I was talking about the ones that scroll across the bottom of the screen. So that's good then.

I told you I was a newbie.

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Don't feel bad,
by glb613 Mar 23, 2005 6:35AM PST

I thought the same thing when I first started using the program.

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We get that question often in V&S, it's very easy to
by roddy32 Mar 23, 2005 7:00AM PST

see the confusion that can cause.

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(NT) (NT) One step up from Newbie--you had the smarts to ask
by jkp Mar 23, 2005 2:34PM PST
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