[WEB4LIB] RE: spyware & adware

[Michael McCulley]

Chiming in a moment to agree with George.. same for my take plus I use the
SpywareBlaster <http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html> and
Ad-Aware 6.x as well <http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/> right
now. With the anti-virus suite, all these run either on or once daily, and I
am reasonally clean (as far as one knows) on the system, WXP.

Best,
DrWeb

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P. Michael McCulley aka DrWeb
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Tuesday, October 26, 2004 8:07:40 PM 
 
>-----Original Message-----
>From: web4lib at webjunction.org 
>[mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of 
>george at library.caltech.edu
>Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 10:36 AM
>To: Multiple recipients of list
>Subject: [WEB4LIB] RE: spyware & adware
>
>The first step in preventing the accretion of spyware/adware is the
>judicious consideration of web browser(s).  With all web 
>browsers, it is
>critical that they be kept current and patched, as necessary.
>
>That said, the Mozilla suite of browser applications
><http://mozilla.org> has proven, in my experience, to be very robust at
>minimizing/excluding spyware/adware.  This may well be a direct result
>of the express intent of the designers to provide cookie and pop-up
>control from the outset.  With 3 years of experience in delivering the
>goods, Mozilla 1.7.3 <http://www.mozilla.org/products/mozilla1.x/> and
>Firefox Preview Release 1.0.1 
><http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/>
>are about as good as it gets.
>
>I run Spybot Search & Destroy
><http://www.safer-networking.org/en/spybotsd/index.html> from time to
>time as a check, but haven't had it find anything in well over a year.
>Spybot also provides an inoculation function, which helps to keep the
>disk clean.
>
>Mozilla, Firefox, and Spybot are free.  Mozilla and Firefox are
>operating system neutral.  Spybot is limited to 8 varieties of Windows.
>
>Your mileage may vary.
>
>George S. Porter
>Sherman Fairchild Library of Engineering & Applied Science
>California Institute of Technology
>Mail Code 1-43, Pasadena, CA 91125-4300
>Telephone (626) 395-3409 Fax (626) 431-2681
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