Best free spyware program?

[Jimmy9190]

I got rid of my outdated Spy Sweeper program yesterday. It slowed my pc down a lot and I did not buy any updates for it for the last 2 years. Does anyone know of any good, reliable anti spyware programs I can download for free?

Thanks.

 

[Quattro Pete]

Malwarebytes and Spybot S&D come to mind.

 

[buster]

I like Malwarebytes and Ad-aware.

 

[Mr Nice]

Are you sure those 'free' sypware programs don't contain spyware ?

 

[mikered30]

Originally Posted By: Quattro Pete
Malwarebytes and Spybot S&D come to mind.

X2

 

[Jimmy9190]

Thanks, I'll check those out.

 

[daves87rs]

Spybot seems to be very popular...

 

[Paul2007]

I use Ad-Aware for spyware, Win Patrol for the windows system, Zone Alarm for the firewall, and Avast! for everything else. All are free versions. I also recommend CCleaner and Defraggler. I send the CCleaner folks $20 a year, because they always seem to have an update.
I suggest this order.
1. Ad Aware and run it.
2. Avast!, run it.
3. CCleaner, run the cleaner for both programs and windows. The run the registry cleaner. Save a copy of your registry to the desktop. Then tell it to fix all the problems.
4. Win Patrol, install it.
5. Defraggler to defragment your hard drive.
You should notice a tremendous improvement right away.

 

[ZZman]

My favorites are:

SUPERantispyware
Malwarebytes
A-Squared
PCTools Threatfire

 

[Drew99GT]

www.sandboxie.com

 

[fascination127]

Malwarebytes and asquared

 

[sprintman]

SpywareBlaster (blocker), Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware, SAS,
a-squared, PREVX. CCleaner for cleanup, Auslogics Defrag (after much testing of many) including Defraggler and MyDefrag (bug city). But, and it's a big but all of the above bar Spywareblaster are too late as PC is already infected. These days you need to keep the stuff out and that's a different ballgame altogether.

 

[97tbird]

i use:

Malware bytes
SuperAntiSpyware
Spyware Blaster
Spybot
C-Cleaner
Auslogics Defrag

 

[sprintman]

Stop copying me!

 

[SuperBusa]

Originally Posted By: Jimmy9190
I got rid of my outdated Spy Sweeper program yesterday. It slowed my pc down a lot and I did not buy any updates for it for the last 2 years. Does anyone know of any good, reliable anti spyware programs I can download for free?

Thanks.


These days, your internet provider usually has anti-virus and spyware software you can use as part of the internet service. They have regular updates too.