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re: AntiSpyware - the best? Show of hands
Friday, February 27, 2004 at 11:40 am
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Posted by james (384 messages posted)


I had the the CommonName Toolbar (hijack actually - cnbabe.dll) installed on one of my home boxes. Removal via Add/Remove Programs, sprung up the dreaded "removal web page". Took an absolute beating to get it off. Apparently both Spybot & Adaware were unable to do a total remove. I whacked at the registry and had to turn it off in Startup area of msconfig.


On Friday, February 27, 2004 at 11:28 am, Erik wrote:
>I have found that the best way to get everything is to run both Lavasoft AdAware
>and Spybot, since neither program will always find every problem. I like Spybot's
>"Immunize" feature and host file locking abilities, but again, AdAware usually picks
>up a couple files that Spybot misses


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re: AntiSpyware - the best? Show of hands (Erik: Friday, February 27, 2004 at 11:28 am)

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-AntiSpyware - the best? Show of hands (james: Fri, Feb 27, 2004, 11:03 am)
*re: AntiSpyware - the best? Show of hands (Falcon: Fri, Feb 27, 2004, 11:24 am)
-re: AntiSpyware - the best? Show of hands (Bill: Fri, Feb 27, 2004, 11:28 am)
-re: AntiSpyware - the best? Show of hands (james: Fri, Feb 27, 2004, 11:32 am)
*re: AntiSpyware - the best? Show of hands (Ricer46: Fri, Feb 27, 2004, 2:07 pm)
-re: AntiSpyware - the best? Show of hands (Erik: Fri, Feb 27, 2004, 11:28 am)
*re: AntiSpyware - the best? Show of hands (james: Fri, Feb 27, 2004, 11:40 am)
*re: AntiSpyware - the best? Show of hands (Kevin: Fri, Feb 27, 2004, 11:44 am)
*re: AntiSpyware - the best? Show of hands (Helen: Fri, Feb 27, 2004, 11:46 am)
*re: AntiSpyware - the best? Show of hands (phantom: Fri, Feb 27, 2004, 12:06 pm)
*re: AntiSpyware - the best? Show of hands (Jeff: Fri, Feb 27, 2004, 12:29 pm)
*re: AntiSpyware - the best? Show of hands (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Fri, Feb 27, 2004, 1:59 pm)
-re: AntiSpyware - the best? Show of hands (john: Fri, Feb 27, 2004, 3:46 pm)
*re: AntiSpyware - the best? Show of hands (james: Tue, Mar 2, 2004, 7:53 am)
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