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DVA1521
Captain, B757-200
Joined on February 13 2004
Northeastern United States
76 legs, 134.3 hours
58 legs,
107.6 hours online 7 legs,
6.5 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
May 09 2004 05:10 ET by Michael Catalfamo
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Does anybody know where I can find a FREE program to remove spyware? I used 2 scanners and I found out that I have some, now I need to remove it.
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DVA919
First Officer, B767-300
Joined on November 03 2002
Century Club
Online Century Club
"It's a bhoys thing!" Western Europe
185 legs, 485.7 hours
101 legs,
306.1 hours online 4 legs,
13.6 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
May 09 2004 05:19 ET by Mark Lee
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Go to http://www.downloads.com and search for SpyBot-Search And Destroy. That should sort you out.
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DVA1521
Captain, B757-200
Joined on February 13 2004
Northeastern United States
76 legs, 134.3 hours
58 legs,
107.6 hours online 7 legs,
6.5 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
May 09 2004 05:24 ET by Michael Catalfamo
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Thanks Mark, it's scanning right now.
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DVA1441
Captain, B727-200
Joined on November 28 2003
Rapid City, SD
35 legs, 64.0 hours
28 legs,
52.8 hours online 1 legs,
1.6 hours ACARS 2 legs,
3.6 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
May 09 2004 06:01 ET by Patrick Ealy
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I use a program called Spy Sweaper by Webroot. You can use it once to remove Spyware from your computer but to update the defenitions for it, you have to reinstall the program again :(. Or you could just buy it like what I have done. Never had any problems with it.
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DVA1441
Captain, B727-200
Joined on November 28 2003
Rapid City, SD
35 legs, 64.0 hours
28 legs,
52.8 hours online 1 legs,
1.6 hours ACARS 2 legs,
3.6 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
May 09 2004 06:02 ET by Patrick Ealy
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oops, forgot the link. http://www.webroot.com/wb/downloads/index.php
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DVA1008
Senior Captain, B757-200
Joined on December 14 2002
B757 100 Club
Everett 250 Club
50 State Club
Six Century Club
Online Six Century Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
"Fly 'till the map turns blue" Kokomo, IN
633 legs, 1,731.3 hours
613 legs,
1,689.9 hours online 212 legs,
792.3 hours ACARS 35 legs,
77.7 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
May 09 2004 06:19 ET by Matt Young
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Ad-Aware is pretty good too. http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/ Doesn't cost a thing and it's always up to date. I also use Spyware Blaster to keep it all off my system in the first place. With it running, I rarely get more than 1 or 2 problems in a scan. http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
Matt YoungSenior Captain, B757-200
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DVA544
Senior Captain, B727-200
Joined on October 24 2001
Online Century Club
Triple Century Club
Southeastern United States
329 legs, 661.4 hours
186 legs,
368.2 hours online 47 legs,
90.0 hours ACARS 7 legs,
22.1 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
May 09 2004 07:28 ET by Joe DeGregorio
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I use Ad-Aware also.......i strongly suggest you go read the readme....as there are some settings that need to be adjusted manually...system tweaks so to speak.....once you adsjust those setting is ad-aware.it scans everyyyyy thing.I rarely have any problems now..when I do..like I started gettong pop-ups here on the DVA site...I opened ad-aware and let it do its thing...the pop-ups here are not from the dva site though..just happened to be the 1st site i went to when i woke up and i got the pop ups.the pop ups were coming from another file....but yea..ad-aware is bad to the bone.
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DVA1419
Senior Captain, B737-800
Joined on December 07 2003
Century Club
Southeastern United States
175 legs, 303.7 hours
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Posted onPost created on
May 09 2004 10:58 ET by Randy King
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Spybot has worked well here as a freeware add-on (of course I do not know what associations the creator has with "other" advertisement companies) I would also suggest you consider Window Washer to clean your syetm. Works well with Nortons and Spybot. The biggest problem I encounter before Spybot was "Gain" Gator advertisement. Until Spybot, was hell to get off the system here and it downloads itself when you hit certain web sites.
Randy KingSenior Captain, B737-800
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DVA1521
Captain, B757-200
Joined on February 13 2004
Northeastern United States
76 legs, 134.3 hours
58 legs,
107.6 hours online 7 legs,
6.5 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
May 09 2004 12:13 ET by Michael Catalfamo
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Thanks everybody for all the help!
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