What is Digg?23 Comments
- PacoBell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1From the title of this submission, I thought the jsavitt was advocating spyware programs. LOL! It should read "Anti-Spyware" in order to eliminate ambiguity, really.
- FoosYou, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I understood what he meant... I too only want top of the line spyware installed on my box =)
- Duston, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I was wondering if a Crapware programmer was posting a critique of other's programs.
- jsavitt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Sorry about that, I didn't catch it.
- MattZed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0got my digg
- fourzerofour, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The best spy ware tool is unix.
- cikrohani129, on 03/10/2009, -0/+0Spyware and adware has become as intrusive, disruptive, and damaging as your common virus, with the only difference being the payload of ads.Find the free powerfull tools for remove malware,spyware,virus at
http://SpywareRemovalTools.notlong.com - kortiz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0shouldnt it be "anti spyware"? if not, then I like gator the best
- bloodrain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0lol. sad the spybot has went to hell.
- MattZed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Sorry to double post, but I just wanted to add the fact that I was having trouble with Spyware, and nothing I could find worked, until I stumbled upon a program called SuperAdBlocker, it works great. At first I was reluctant, but ever since then I haven't had Spyware problems :)
- Polly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"But then I'm one of those people who honestly doesn't believe there is such a thing as a Windows box that is safe to connect to the Internet - it's just not a good idea."
You're also one of those people who's honestly a fanboy.
HUR HUR HUR MICRO$HAFT AM I RITE GUYS HAHAHAHAHAHAHA - flaire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0if its not 'anti'-spyware, my vote goes to Bonzi Buddy! ahhh, the good old days of AOL...
- gatorsrule21, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Ad-aware is the best in my opinion. No stupid review is gonna seperate me from my Ad-Aware SE Personal!!!!!
- SoonerDude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0My Windows XP PC has been spyware free for over a year. It's easy to keep from getting spyware, especially if you are using Firefox. SP2 made it harder for spyware to install itself in IE, but it's still more susceptible than Firefox.
- BugMeNot2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I use a little tool called LOLERCAUST ANTI-SPYWARE WTFPLUS 1010. It can almost clean spyware.
- danielson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I fix people's computer's on a day to day basis and I personally fine ad-aware to almost always be the most effective tool I use to remove spyware. We also use Spybot (which isn't nearly as good as it used to be), Spysweeper, Microsoft's AntiSpyware (which isn't too bad actually), and a few others..
- mu-sly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@Polly: "You're also one of those people who's honestly a fanboy."
No, I'm one of those people who is sick to death of having to filter spams and port probes purely because there are a kazillion zombie windows boxes connected to the net.
Microsoft couldn't design a solid security system to save their lives, coupled with the fact that most people don't want to understand much about their computer, yet still expect to connect it to a global public network.
Assume you only have one computer and can't download a firewall in advance of connecting to the net - this is the case for most people. On a fresh Windows install connected to broadband, your box be owned within minutes, if not seconds - before you've even had time to download update patches or Zonealarm. OK, XP has a built in firewall, but it's far too little, far too late from Microsoft. How many people are running pre-XP Windows? Last stats I saw (pretty recent), there's still a whole lot more non-XP users than XP users, and XP is only just starting to catch up. How many XP users are using the firewall? All of them? Hardly!
That there is the source of the problem - ***** of wide open boxes ready for exploiting - hence my assertation that it's not safe to connect a Windows box to the internet.
It's easy to keep from getting spyware, viruses and so on, but you have to have a clue. The trouble is, most users don't, and Windows doesn't go far enough to protect them from their cluelessness.
It's also the case that some very wealthy business models (anti-virus etc.) are based squarely on selling fixes to a problem that should never have been there in the first place. If you think this is ever going to change, you are sorely mistaken. Windows will never really get much more secure or less bug ridden, because too many wealthy companies have vested interests in keeping it that way.
Again, "trusted computing platform" and so on is just another attempt to milk money out of a problem that would never even have existed if it wasn't for Microsoft's poor forward planning.
This whole scenario is one of the biggest farces in computing, but for some reason people still pay through the nose to buy into it, time and time again.
So forgive me for being a fanboy of the antithesis of the pile of steaming ***** that is Windows. - a_gremlin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@ mu-sly
im one of those people who refuses to read anything longer than 10 lines on digg... - redzombi2k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Firefox + Spyware Blaster + Ad-Aware + Firewall + A little common sense = 0 spyware problems.
@mu-sly - Even on a Windows XP box :) - redzombi2k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@ mu-sly - "The trouble for Windows is that it's strength - the large user base - is also it's biggest weakness."
You hit the nail on the head!
Its not so much that Linux or Mac OSX operating systems are that much more secure.
It's simply the fact that they are less popular amongst users, and in turn that makes them less attractive to spyware writers.
Now I'm not saying that I disagree with you when you say that Linux or OSX is safer for internet use for "Joe Public", I'm just saying that if you do exercise a little common sense, assuming you are not completely computer illiterate, then you should still be able to remain for the most part spyware free. - mu-sly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@redzombi2k: Sure thing, you are absolutely right. The trouble is that "common sense" isn't actually very common, especially when it comes to computers.
My uncle, who is hardly computer illiterate (I first browsed the web on his computer back in 1996), and is certainly technically minded (he's an electronic engineer designing digital cable TV systems, and used to design radiotherapy equipment) had one of the most spyware riddled machines I have ever encountered. Perhaps it was his kids... who knows?
Whatever, if an electronic engineer can't cope with keeping Windows relatively problem free, how does Joe Public who barely knows what an OS is stand even the slightest chance? This problem could be prevented almost entirely if Microsoft would just set Windows up with some sensible default security settings... so why don't they?
For the record, let me say that I'm a Linux geek, but I know that Linux is not the solution for everybody. So, let's take Mac OS X instead. That's the best example of a truly fantastic, innovative OS with the kind of inbuilt features we should be seeing in the year 2005, and to top it all off, there's a real security model going on underneath.
The irony is that you might expect a user-friendly OS that goes out of it's way to protect users to be somehow less powerful, but in OS X you're never more than a couple of mouse clicks away from frickin UNIX!!
The trouble for Windows is that it's strength - the large user base - is also it's biggest weakness. Windows can never really move forward because the large user base will not allow such big transitions as MacOS9 to MacOSX was. Windows will have to keep dragging it's legacy (and problems) around forever, because otherwise it would flop for breaking backwards compatability.
Longhorn is still years away, and already many of the new features that were planned have been put on ice. Microsoft have more than enough rope to hang themselves, so I'm just going to sit back and enjoy the view from over here in Linux land. - michielnl, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Free computer clean up of hard drive of spyware, adware and registry. Get firewall anti-virus patches remove Spyware. www.clean-computer.org spyware and adware clean up computer registry
- mu-sly, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Spyware? Firefox. Nuff said.
Or to put it another way, if you're still using Internet Explorer to browse the web, you're either naive or insane. ;-)
To be honest, if you're still using Windows to browse the web, you're either naive or insane. ;-) ;-)
But then I'm one of those people who honestly doesn't believe there is such a thing as a Windows box that is safe to connect to the Internet - it's just not a good idea.
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