The best FREE spyware removal tools?

[trvkinc]

I have Ad-Aware and also had Spyware Doctor but it recently had me update and now that I have it no longer lets you scan and fix problems without purchase which really sucks. It's a really great program for those who can afford it.

[cornholio7]

why not try spybot search and destroy ?, its free

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/

[anonymez]

another vote for spybot

[blutach]

Make it 3 for S,S&D

Regards

[trvkinc]

Ok thanks for the suggestion. And have you heard of Secret Maker? It's a free program as well and it has lots of features like popup blockers and such. I'm trying it out and so far its doing a great job.

[2COOL]

I often use this online free spyware removal tool. http://www.trendmicro.com/spyware-scan/

Just run/open it from link.

[BR7]

Thanks for the tip 2COOL this is very nice I havent used spybot for a few weeks so I ran it before I tried trend just to see if spybot would miss anything SB found 10 items so I went and ran trend it found 20 more I guess I will use trend form now on
Thanks again

[Chewy]

This thread belongs somewhere more conspicous,
make it 4 for spybot!
Things are getting very hairy out there, I have one computer that does
the books for a midsized company, about 6 months ago, it wouldn't even
boot into a windows gui, putting it on a different monitor got me in.
Updated nortons in safe mode showed trojan downloader, (from a web site),
the durn thing had been updating itself for 2 weeks. 4 hours later after
running spybot, nortons and trojanhunter in regular and safe mode & regedit, I thought I was finished, then the gambling/porn popups came back.
I had forgotten to disconnect the dsl/lan. Reran everything and finally fixed.
Last month the same guy said yes, not no to an activex control and here we go again. This time when I disconnected the ethernet cable or tried to go into safe mode, no go! Continual hour glasses! Booted to xp cd and deleted system partition so they could print payroll checks.

[jm1647]

I use three of them in addition to Symantec Antivirus -

Spybot Search and Destroy with teatimer
Ad Aware
Spyware Blaster - available for free here It protects the registry and is updated regularly like AdAware and Spybot.

[blutach]

Moved in response to rbrtpl's suggestion (first time anything been moved OUT of OT in my recollection!)

Regards

[wild77]

WinPatrol is a nice little program as well.

[wild77]

Here are some more tools I like, you can never have too many!
The guy from Sysinternals is the one who found SONY'S Rootkit

Sysinternals Process Explorer

http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/ProcessExplorer.html

Sysinternals Rootkit Revealer

http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/RootkitRevealer.html

WinPatrol

http://www.winpatrol.com/

HijackThis

http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/

[paglamon]

A combination of Spybot(with tea timer) and Ad Aware works best for me.

[Chewy]

A combination of Spybot(with tea timer) and Ad Aware works best for me.

Watch out for teatimer, I load spybot last cause I am always forgetting to
disable it(turn it off) when installing core programs(like Norton's AV).

[TNT]

I find tea timer to be a hassle too. I like adaware as well.