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Originally posted by: mrrman
I find this app useless...ran it didnt find nothing...installed spyware gold and found 190 objects, needless to say adware is now history
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chances are what happned was the definition file got corrupted by spyware. Was it Adaware 6 or SE?

Like I sad, no tech worth his weight in Cow Crap relies on a single spyware removal tool anymore, I use almost a dozen on each and every computer.
 
Originally posted by: Baked
That's gotta be a photochop. When your system reaches 200+ spywares, it will slow to a crawl.

I see, in law computer. Dell? I found 500+ on one of my relative's Dell. And they tell me how slow the computer has become.
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I've had quite a few before, in the 2000 range, and I didn't notice really. Then again I always thought the computer sucked even without spyware so that's probably why.

I just made sure that when I finally got my own rig recently, my family was not allowed to use IE when browsing because they're obviously part of the group of people who don't know how to surf the internet. They also have to use the guest account as mine is PW protected.
 
That's not impressive. Most of that is in registry entries, not total spyware entities. That just means that he got some sort of spyware that compounded itself thoroughly inside the registry. If that number was the amount of actual spyware packages, the computer would've been inoperable months ago.

The highest I've had the pleasure of removing was around 6,000. Half of which were probably registry entries.
 
Damn. I've done a 2200 item system before. The thing was 30/70 as to whether or not it'd even boot to windows fully. Took hours. I can't imagine that many.
 
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