Spyspotter

[Birchy]

This spyware and adware company has identified 102 instances of spyware on my PC and are now asking for $29.95 to rectify. What's my alternative? Could this be a scam? My PC has been throwing up loads of error reports recently...following children's use of the computer.

[alunrw]

Personally I would leave it and download free software to do the same job - Lavasoft ad-aware is very goodhttp://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/

You could also do a search for Spybot search & Destroy, these do the same thing at no charge.

[mattie]

If you are running Windows XP, visit www.microsoft.com and download microsoft antispyware and use that.

You have to be running a genuine licensed version of XP to download it.

Does not run on Windows 95/98 or ME.

BTW Birchy are/were you a member of CWL?

[guy9663]

Go to this link and have a browse.
http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware/security/fwantispy.htm l
Everything is freeware and works well. Personally I run Spyware Blaster, Spyware Guard, Spybot S&D and Lavasoft Ad-Aware. I also use Sygate firewall, AVG free edition and WinPatrol. See these links for details.
http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm
http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1
http://www.winpatrol.com/
Hope this helps.

[LeMarchand]

Scam!

All the above advice is good, but if you have the same problem as a computer that I recently had to "clean up" it may be quite hard to remove. (I had to do a lot of registry key deletion). What company is offering you this "bargain" and has the offer replaced your standard wallpaper?

[LeMarchand]

Doh! Should have read the Q thoroughly - don't think it was Spyspotter on the computer mentioned above!