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ToiletDuck

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• Jul 12, 2005

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I've been giving this a run and I've found it to be a nice little app. Has anyone else been using it? Has anyone found another program to be better?

 

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dicecca112

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• Jul 12, 2005

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I find that if you use it in conjuction with Ad-aware it gets everything.

 

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laynlow

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• Jul 12, 2005

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After reading about how much folks here liked it, I am giving it a shot. I hate how it loads at startup though, and I haven't found a way to disable that in the app yet.

If anyone knows how to stop it from loading at startup I am all ears.

 

NsOmNiA91130

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• Jul 12, 2005

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msconfig? It should have a listing of all startup programs.

 

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dicecca112

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yeah, that should kill it easily, but mine never loaded at startup once I disabled it in options

 

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BrutalDrew

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• Jul 12, 2005

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It is the best of its kind.

 

hibner

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• Jul 12, 2005

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I was avoiding this program just for the fact that it was from micro$oft. And this is their first venture into the spyware game. But I have heard a lot of people raving about it. I am sure that it will be rolled into Longhorn. So I might as well try it now.

 

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laynlow

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• Jul 12, 2005

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dicecca112 said:

yeah, that should kill it easily, but mine never loaded at startup once I disabled it in options

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I always kill stuff in msconfig as a last resort. Where is the option? I have not found anything that keeps it from loading unless it would be the automatic updates option.

 

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Skeen

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• Jul 12, 2005

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hibner said:

I was avoiding this program just for the fact that it was from micro$oft. And this is their first venture into the spyware game. But I have heard a lot of people raving about it. I am sure that it will be rolled into Longhorn. So I might as well try it now.

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Actually it used to be called Giant Antispyware and MS just bought it. It even looks the same just with some MS branding.

To prevent it from loading go to options -> real-time protection and then uncheck the box that tells it to start at boot.

 

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laynlow

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• Jul 12, 2005

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I have had that unchecked, but it still launches at boot. Oh well.

 

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• Jul 15, 2005

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I like it, it was FREE !!!

easy install & use. updates nice.

wonder what spyware Bill had programed into it?