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In at least the last 30-40 times that I ran Spy-bot, it has never
found a single thing. Whenever I run ad-aware it always finds
something. I even run Spy-bot first, and the same thing. Is there a
site that I can load and then check spy-bot, or is there something in
Spy-bot settings that I might be missing.
Bob

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On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 12:29:44 -0400, Bob Horvath
<bhorvath13@comcast.net> wrote:

>
>In at least the last 30-40 times that I ran Spy-bot, it has never
>found a single thing. Whenever I run ad-aware it always finds
>something. I even run Spy-bot first, and the same thing. Is there a
>site that I can load and then check spy-bot, or is there something in
>Spy-bot settings that I might be missing.

Make sure you have the latest version. It's 1.3 now (at least as of
yesterday). He stopped providing support and updates for 1.2 and
earlier as soon as 1.3 was released. When I upgraded to 1.3, it picked
up things that 1.2 had been missing (Adaware missed them too).

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On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 09:50:03 -0700, Bob Horvath wrote:

>On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 12:29:44 -0400, Bob Horvath
><bhorvath13@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>>
>>In at least the last 30-40 times that I ran Spy-bot, it has never
>>found a single thing. Whenever I run ad-aware it always finds
>>something. I even run Spy-bot first, and the same thing. Is there a
>>site that I can load and then check spy-bot, or is there something in
>>Spy-bot settings that I might be missing.
>
>Make sure you have the latest version. It's 1.3 now (at least as of
>yesterday). He stopped providing support and updates for 1.2 and
>earlier as soon as 1.3 was released. When I upgraded to 1.3, it picked
>up things that 1.2 had been missing (Adaware missed them too).


Ok Jed, thanks for the information.

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On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 12:29:44 -0400, Bob Horvath wrote:

>
> In at least the last 30-40 times that I ran Spy-bot, it has never
> found a single thing. Whenever I run ad-aware it always finds
> something. I even run Spy-bot first, and the same thing. Is there a
> site that I can load and then check spy-bot, or is there something in
> Spy-bot settings that I might be missing.
> Bob

Have you upgraded to the new version 1.3? If you haven't do that, there's
also an update for it today (16th June).

Regards

Bill

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On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 17:00:42 GMT, Bob Horvath wrote:

>On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 12:29:44 -0400, Bob Horvath wrote:
>
>>
>> In at least the last 30-40 times that I ran Spy-bot, it has never
>> found a single thing. Whenever I run ad-aware it always finds
>> something. I even run Spy-bot first, and the same thing. Is there a
>> site that I can load and then check spy-bot, or is there something in
>> Spy-bot settings that I might be missing.
>> Bob
>
>Have you upgraded to the new version 1.3? If you haven't do that, there's
>also an update for it today (16th June).
>
>Regards
>
>Bill


Yep, I am running 1.3 and did get the update.
Thanks,
Bob

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On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 13:16:19 -0400, Bob Horvath <bhorvath13@comcast.net>
wrote:

>On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 17:00:42 GMT, Bob Horvath wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 12:29:44 -0400, Bob Horvath wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> In at least the last 30-40 times that I ran Spy-bot, it has never
>>> found a single thing. Whenever I run ad-aware it always finds
>>> something. I even run Spy-bot first, and the same thing. Is there a
>>> site that I can load and then check spy-bot, or is there something in
>>> Spy-bot settings that I might be missing.
>>> Bob
>>
>>Have you upgraded to the new version 1.3? If you haven't do that, there's
>>also an update for it today (16th June).
>>
>>Regards
>>
>>Bill
>
>
>Yep, I am running 1.3 and did get the update.
>Thanks,
> Bob

Adaware and Spybot have never found anything since early '03 for
me. I also use Spywareblaster, a hosts file and IE-SpyAd for
restricting sites in IE. If you add those features, you should be
able to 'stay' clean.

Of course, the fact that Firefox is my principal browser helps too.

BoB