Replies to post #5411 on Dream Machine

[Bruce A Thompson]

You are correct sir and

I am wrong. I did a search and I have even recommended Spysweeper several times as a hard hitting spyware remover.

Good call. The older I sit here, the longer I get. Or something like that. (G)

BT

[lostcowboy]

Hi Spree99, what Bruce did not say is that it is hard to give this type of software a recommendation, as you have to buy the software to see how well it removes the ad/spyware programs. Also some of these programs will give a false hit. The way SpywareBlaster works is it installs registry entries that tells the install program that the program is already installed. A lot of the new pay adware programs that are coming out are hitting on the SpywareBlaster registry entries and saying that you have a lot of ad/spyware programs on your machine when you really don't have them. Ether this is poor programing, or they are doing it on purpose to get more sells. One program that has done this in the past is PestPatrol. PestPatrol does fix this in the next release, but you may have to wait awhile for that to happen. Bruce did go ahead and buy PestPatrol, so he is aware of its problems. If Spysweeper were to give the person who installed it even a one time use, we would be able to tell if it is giving false positive hits. I don't think we should have Bruce buy software in order to test it. However, if you have already bought Spysweeper you could give us a report on how well it works, and if it is compatible with SpywareBlaster. Being compatible with SpywareBlaster is very important, the author of the program is very aggressive about finding ad/spyware and developing blocks for them. He is normally ahead of all the other programs. Being that he is only trying to find out how to block the install program, he will normally have a block in place several days/weeks before the ad removal programs can find out how to safely remove a ad/spy program.