Noadware: really good or craptastic?

[advancedkill]

I have noadware, the (well known) adware removal tool - www.noadware.net. My friend has told me that it lies about what is on your pc and that it is crap.

Arguement for crap:

1. All anti-virus software used found the same things that noadware did.

2.Spoke on live-help to "bulldog" (makers of a antivirus program) and were told that was crap.

Arguement against:

1.noadware checks the ram for adware; the other software used doesnt.

2.noadware checks for adware, whereas the anti-virus software used only checks for viruses.

What do you thin - do you know anything (noadware is free to download and try, only you have to pay if you want to remover anything that it finds)

 

[LiViNgL@RgE]

Alright MAte,

I've never used noadware myself so I couldn't comment but I use Spybot Search & Destroy which is free(but donnations are appreciated)!!!! I've been using it for a few years now & it gets rid of 99.9% of spyware & adware, I tested load & its the only one that gets most of them but sometimes you need to run through a special guide for some adware as no program can get rid of them!

If you see a service running that you don't recognize just google it to find out what it is!

But it all depends what your happy with!!!

Cheers

Dave

 

[maverik-sg1]

On my proper machine I use mcafee, like livinglarge I never used noadware but seems to be okay - on my works lappy I use MS antispyare :O

 

[AstralWanderer]

NoAdware was listed on the Rogue/Suspect Anti-Spyware Products & Web Sites list but has since been removed. However you are still likely to be better off using a mainstream anti-spyware utility. SpyBot S&D and AdAware sadly no longer provide top levels of protection - PCTools' Spyware Doctor and Webroot SpySweeper are the current best in most surveys with Microsoft's AntiSpyware and Sunbelt's CounterSpy not far behind.

Anti-virus software did use to cover viruses only but virtually all now cover malware generally (including spyware/trojans) so the days of the specialised anti-spyware application are now numbered - their strength tends to be their ability to remove all traces of detected malware (notably registry entries and configuration file changes) while anti-virus software tends to remove the files only (which does effectively disable the malware but some may wish to have every trace eradicated).

Prevention is better than cure though - if you are seeing spyware on your system, it means that either your browser security is not up to scratch (hint: ditch Internet Explorer and start using Opera or Firefox instead with a web filter) or that you are not being selective enough about what you download. No anti-virus/trojan/spyware scanner can detect 100% of malware so being careful about what you run and locking your system down so that it doesn't run anything without your say (a despressingly hard task with Windows) is one of the more important security measures.