TSGL: Spyware Blaster Updates

[Mike Ferrell]

Ron,
What about the lack of Spybot updates for some time now?
Mike
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "rat" <rat44 at sympatico.ca>
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Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 11:14 AM
Subject: Re: TSGL: Spyware Blaster Updates


> Russ,
> 
> I have been using the immunize feature of Spybot for close to a year
> and have experienced none of the problems you mentioned.  Do not
> recall how I configured it initially, but I generally receive no hits
> when I scan for spyware so assume the immunize is doing its thing.
> 
> Ron T.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Russell W. Coover" <coover at fastmail.fm>
> To: "'Tech Support Guy Mailing List'" <List at tsgserver.com>
> Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 12:12 AM
> Subject: RE: TSGL: Spyware Blaster Updates
> 
> 
> > Ron,
> >
> > Spybot does have that feature, at least in it's latest beta
> versions. I
> > tried it and had a bit of trouble, some irritating and some simply
> not
> > acceptable. The irritating part is when it continued to ask me the
> same
> > questions and I had to continually say yes or no, depending on what
> the
> > question was. The unacceptable part was when it would not allow me
> to delete
> > a program fro the computer, complaining that something (in this
> case, me)
> > was trying to do something bad that it could not allow. And then I
> found the
> > Spybot program that was doing the complaining (teatime.exe) would
> not allow
> > me to delete it. Don't tell me I can't do something, because that is
> the
> > surest way to insure I do it. Teatime.exe no longer exists on my
> computer
> > and neither does the "immunize feature."
> >
> > Russ Coover
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: List-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:List-bounces at tsgserver.com]
> On
> > Behalf Of rat
> > Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 7:37 PM
> > To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List
> > Subject: Re: TSGL: Spyware Blaster Updates
> >
> > Mike,
> >
> > Unless I am misinformed, Spybot has an 'immunize' function which,
> when
> > engaged, keeps the nasties from coming back.
> >
> > Ron Travis
> > Quebec
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Mike Ferrell" <ferrellm at charter.net>
> > To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" <List at tsgserver.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 7:05 PM
> > Subject: Re: TSGL: Spyware Blaster Updates
> >
> >
> > > Russ,
> > > Regarding Spybot, I decided to quit messing with it because they
> > haven't
> > > issued an update for quite a while now.  Ad-aware was doing a good
> > job and
> > > updates regularly.  But Spyware Blaster keeps these pests from
> > getting to
> > > your computer, whereas Ad-aware and Spybot only allow you to
> detect
> > and
> > > delete them AFTER they infest you.  Several satisfied Spyware
> > Blaster users
> > > on this list say they now find nothing when they run an Ad-aware
> > scan.
> > > That's what I'm looking for.
> > > Mike
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > > From: "Russell W. Coover" <coover at fastmail.fm>
> > > To: "'Tech Support Guy Mailing List'" <List at tsgserver.com>
> > > Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 6:41 PM
> > > Subject: RE: TSGL: Spyware Blaster Updates
> > >
> > >
> > > > Though I am no longer running Spyware Blaster, I had no such
> > problem with
> > > it
> > > > when I was.
> > > >
> > > > I have deleted this program, by the way, simply because I had
> too
> > many
> > > > programs running at the same time, slowing and sometimes
> freezing
> > my very
> > > > fast computer. I continue to use Spybot, Ad-aware, and Pest
> Patrol
> > > regularly
> > > > to keep my computer clean of Spyware, but I allow none of them
> to
> > run
> > > unless
> > > > I specifically start them myself. They do not run in the
> > background.
> > > >
> > > > Russ Coover
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: List-bounces at tsgserver.com
> > [mailto:List-bounces at tsgserver.com] On
> > > > Behalf Of Mike Ferrell
> > > > Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 8:06 AM
> > > > To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List
> > > > Subject: TSGL: Spyware Blaster Updates
> > > >
> > > > Spyware Blaster has received good marks on this list, so I
> > downloaded it a
> > > > few days ago. Since then I have been unable to update.  I get a
> > message:
> > > > Error Connecting to Update Server.  Does anyone else have this
> > problem?
> > > > Mike
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