 Trojans. Who To Trust When Buying New Security., Spy Doctor. Good Bad or Shady ??? |
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 Aug 3 2006, 01:35 PM
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 Forum Regular  Group: Members Posts: 157 Joined: 7-February 05 From: British living on Russian Boarder in Finland Member No.: 11,499  |
Ran the following WITHOUT REMOVING FINDS. Spy Doctor reported 38 infections Found. More Later Ewido 3 cookies Spy Bot 5 Cookies Ad Aware 3 Cookies Trojan Hunter 28 Infections Spy Hunter ??? 27 infections. I have ZA Pro, as well as Defender and Spywear Blaster. Ewido Spy B S&D Ad-Aware SE A Squared All run 2 times weekly and updated. Spent several days checking for these "Hits". Spy Doctor makes it difficult but not impossible to find their location (unless you BUY full copy) Did track down 2 porn scanners in the registry Fast Video Player, but it also reports BackDoor.Rbot.UR Sys32\phgghu.exe Backdoor.Retro64 21 entries in registry Dialler in Sys32\Egauth.dll and a host file redirector....... No Other scanner mentioned any of these "Hois" Trojan Hunter found 28 but kindly claimed to remove them. Spy Hunter found a totally different 28 but wanted purchase to remove them. So close on 80 Hits all Medium to Deadly. Accordingly advised my friend to NOT spend anything until he had run a HJT and submitted it. He replied his wifes PC (both Business usage) now had other trojans reported by SPy Doc. so he purchased Spy Doc and ran it.NO MENTION now of what the FREE SCAN was saying yesterday ???????? Sqeeky Clean !! Now I am incredibly confused and cannot find anything in HJT or my usual Scanners to worry about..... Ideas, advice.I am tempted to have you look at my HJT Log, but know you are all busy helping less able folks. Really would like some opinion and guidance.not much hair left to pull out now. 
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Aug 3 2006, 02:13 PM
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Forum Addict Group: Members Posts: 3,349 Joined: 14-April 06 Member No.: 64,042 |
Check out these comments on Spyware Warrior--a little dated but I would say the leopard hasn't changed its spots:http://netrn.net/spywareblog/archives/2004/08/01/spy-doctor-and-spyware-doctor/
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Aug 3 2006, 02:47 PM
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 Bleeping GloDiva Group: Members Posts: 7,479 Joined: 25-April 04 From: As always I'm beside myself ;) Member No.: 228 |
Shady.
SpyDoctor not to be confused with the trusted SpywareDoctor According to The Spyware Warrior List of Rogue/Suspect Anti-Spyware Products & Web Sites: (A most trustworthy source.) QUOTE http://www.spywarewarrior.com/rogue_anti-spyware.htm
Product :SpyLax Domain(s) : healthycomputerclub.com Comments : nospyware.info false positives work as goad to purchase (1); poor scan reporting (1); successor to SpyDoctor (1); same app as #1 Spyware Killer, Max Privacy Protector, SpyDoctor; SpyFirewall, Spyinator, SpyKiller 2005, SpySpotter, SpywareThis, & Spyware Protection Pro - Note: SpyLax's previous incarnation as SpyDoctor is not to be confused w/ Spyware Doctor, a completely different app by another company [A: 6-29-04 / U: 10-25-04] This post has been edited by Scarlett: Aug 3 2006, 02:47 PM --------------------  |
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Aug 4 2006, 12:11 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 97 Joined: 1-May 06 Member No.: 66,319 |
I am about 95% sure this is the same program I had a bad experience with before I came here for help.
In my case, the free scan found all kinds of stuff (most of which I actually did really have, as I found out later). So I replied to their invitation to buy the program to clean up everything they had just found with a request for a toll-free number or a physical address where I could give them a credit card number. Something along the lines of "OK - you guys have just told me I have viruses, trojans, etc., so it doesn't seem real practical to put my cc# (which has since been changed) out there." Still, I fully intended to buy their product because it sounded so darn good. Strangely enough, I never heard back from them. Came here instead. aelfgifa |
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Aug 4 2006, 01:47 AM
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Forum Regular Group: Members Posts: 157 Joined: 7-February 05 From: British living on Russian Boarder in Finland Member No.: 11,499 |
Thanks everyone. Some interesting refernce works here. Relise I used Spyware Doctor, my friend used SpyDoctor.simple mistake.
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