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iadom · 05-01-2005, 22:10

Just had an e-mail from Zone Alarm asking me to try out their online spyware scanner. I think it should be renamed scareware.

I have Spywareblaster installed.
I did a deep scan with Pest Patrol (paid for version) this deletes or quarantines most things it finds automatically without scheduled scanning.
The same with AdAware, and then with Spybot. The only thing found was a Web Trends Live object found by Spybot. The first two came up clean.

I then ran the online scanner from ZA and it reported 8 objects !!!
I feel that these are either false positives or fairly harmless items flagged up to frighten people into buying their software.

I cannot see anything to worry about in this scan. In fact I think most of them are in Pest Patrols archives of removed pests.

05-01-2005, 22:10	#8
iadom In the corner, sulking. Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Shaw, Oldham, Lancashire. Services: 2 TV 360 boxes. 500mb BB, Phone line. Posts: 8,041	Re: Is there a free diffinitive spyware/registry cleaner Just had an e-mail from Zone Alarm asking me to try out their online spyware scanner. I think it should be renamed scareware. I have Spywareblaster installed. I did a deep scan with Pest Patrol (paid for version) this deletes or quarantines most things it finds automatically without scheduled scanning. The same with AdAware, and then with Spybot. The only thing found was a Web Trends Live object found by Spybot. The first two came up clean. I then ran the online scanner from ZA and it reported 8 objects !!! I feel that these are either false positives or fairly harmless items flagged up to frighten people into buying their software. I cannot see anything to worry about in this scan. In fact I think most of them are in Pest Patrols archives of removed pests.