# Spyware Must Die! **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [April 9, 2003, 12:19am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/spyware-must-die/17758 "2003-04-09T00:19:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![fez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7ab992/32.png) [@fez](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/fez)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2003, 12:19am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/spyware-must-die/17758/1 "2003-04-09T00:19:54Z")
HAHA i just cleaned my computer of spyware and geez there was a ton of stuff. a whopping total of 341 items!!! but i feel great now. its actually utilizing all of its 256 mbs of memory. seriously, i used lite versions of certain programs and its amazing how much spyware/adware i didnt even know about anyways, hopefull some of you will do what i did. really surprising [http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,981130,00.asp](http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,981130,00.asp) that sure does the trick. was rated highest in pc mags article and its free too. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2003, 12:34am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/spyware-must-die/17758/2 "2003-04-09T00:34:31Z")
i usually use lavasoft’s ad-aware… but this one seems interesting… i’ll check it out, thanks for letting us know, cause i need it 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2003, 12:34am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/spyware-must-die/17758/3 "2003-04-09T00:34:33Z")
;p That is awfull, how can u get so many viruses… I had once 13 and i thought that would have been a lot 😃 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2003, 12:41am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/spyware-must-die/17758/4 "2003-04-09T00:41:08Z")
do you have kazaa, or any program like that, they come in on thoes things. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2003, 12:48am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/spyware-must-die/17758/5 "2003-04-09T00:48:17Z")
that is why I use ZoneAlarm. At one time, over 10.5 Gigs of info was being stored on my machine without my knowledge… Rev ![](http://www.aulman.com/rev.gif) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2003, 12:50am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/spyware-must-die/17758/6 "2003-04-09T00:50:06Z")
i have zone alarm Pro. I also use Pest Patrol. They both work really well to get rid of spy ware. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2003, 12:50am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/spyware-must-die/17758/7 "2003-04-09T00:50:38Z")
darn. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2003, 1:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/spyware-must-die/17758/8 "2003-04-09T01:31:33Z")
I remember that Rev - that was me by the way. I was using your computer as a dump for all me 0-day movies… thanks 😉 _said like dr.Evil_ no not really, I can’t back that up… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2003, 2:08am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/spyware-must-die/17758/9 "2003-04-09T02:08:27Z")
> \*Originally posted by reverendflash \* > \*\*that is why I use ZoneAlarm. At one time, over 10.5 Gigs of info was being stored on my machine without my knowledge… Rev \*\* me2 ☹ I got so pissed I wrote a VB program to delete the stuff… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2003, 2:29am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/spyware-must-die/17758/10 "2003-04-09T02:29:49Z")
that really helped. I was wondering where all these pop ups came from when ever i opened up my browser ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2003, 2:57am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/spyware-must-die/17758/11 "2003-04-09T02:57:48Z")
_laughs_ I discovered progs like this a while ago. Lifesavers. …_goes to get some candy_ Anyways, yeah. I think I’ve just converted from lavasofts. Why? Cause the first time I ran Ad-Aware it froze. And the second, and the third. it eventually did the job, but I think it was overloading from the gargantuan amount of spyware I collect. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2003, 3:01am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/spyware-must-die/17758/12 "2003-04-09T03:01:19Z")
i just scanned my system with spybot… it got things lavasoft didnt… thanks fez :beam: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2003, 3:03am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/spyware-must-die/17758/13 "2003-04-09T03:03:41Z")
I downloaded Sygate Firewall a while back, and it conflicted with my OS (98) and said that teefer.vxd and other files had been deleted from my system… after a lot of fuss, i reinstalled the program and did a fresh uninstall and that did the trick, i am not downloading that companies software anymore. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2003, 3:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/spyware-must-die/17758/14 "2003-04-09T03:14:35Z")
I have Kazaa lite = no spy ware