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Well, this is highly unusual

Feb 18, 2004 11:23AM PST

I've been using Spybot S&D 1.2 for several months and it ALWAYS in the past has found several spyware items on my system even after visiting only a few sites. Tonight I ran the scan and it said it found nothing suspicious. Not one item. Well, that in itself was suspicious to me so I did another scan using Adaware and it found 4 items. I thought the Spybot also ran slower tonight. I checked for the latest Spybot updates--there was none. I'm wondering now if my Spybot has been attacked. Any ideas?

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Ralph, Not THAT Unusual...
Feb 18, 2004 11:30AM PST

Ralph,

I have frequently found that Spybot and Ad-Aware will find different stuff. My first question...Have you updated them both? If so, Ad-Aware came out with a new update today, while it's been a while since Spybot put one out.

Still, just to make sure that you don't have anything else "suspicious" on the computer, try running the free online scan at the link below:

Panda Online Scanner

Hope this helps.

Grif

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Re:Ralph, Not THAT Unusual...
Feb 18, 2004 12:17PM PST

Pretty unusual for me but maybe not in the overall picture. Anyway, as I said before I found the 4 items using Adaware but it wasn't using the latest updates. Spybot WAS using the latest updates but found nothing. This has never happened before so thought it was suspicious. Still not sure since I think something is going on. I ran the Panda AV and my system was clean. Thanks for your help.

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Re:Well, this is highly unusual
Feb 18, 2004 3:22PM PST

I use ad-Aware and Spybot and it seems Ad-Aware usually has more updates available while Spybot offers a big one every now and then. Thus, I run both and between them they catch malware before it gets out of hand. Overall, I think they compoliment each other. So keep each up to date for best service and run both. -----Willy Wink