TRUE SWORD antispyware program

[BlackAdder]

Has anyone else besides myself tried the TRUE SWORD antispyware program?? www.securitystronghold.com my computer was lagging on the net and MJ12 was eating up all my 1.5 gigs of ram.I thought I had an infection and run Microsoft and Spybot but they showed nothing. When I ran True Sword it showed at least 50 or more spyware and trojans....any one used it or have an opinion on it???

[vaughan]

I haven't heard of that application.

Recently I purchased PC Tools Spyware Doctor from www.pctools.com

It seems more reasonably priced in my opinion. Spyware Doctor was given a good review in one of the Australian PC magazines recently.

[Empty_5oul]

sounds good. is it free?

personally i have found very little AVG, spybot and ad-aware can't handle.

[BlackAdder]

It's fully functional for 15 days, and I agree about Spybot and AVG but this thing found infections they didn't show...unless it's not being truthfull.Don't know...but my puter is acting much better since I ran it.

[NeoGen]

I'm trying out true sword here, and in my oppinion it raises way too many false positives...


Known malicious component in program

Here is its description:

Malicious program is found in autorun: jusched.exe. Checks with Sun's Java updates site to see if newer Java versions are available. Visit http://java.sun.com or just run the Java Plug-In Control Panel
(Is that considered malicious?)


Known malicious program

Here is its description:

Malicious component is found in files wmplayer.exe. Added by the AGOBOT-BM WORM!
(I almost agree with that... Windows media player sucks!)


Known malicious program

Here is its description:

Malicious component is found in files defrag.exe. Added by the RBOT-AKE WORM!
(Malicious? This one is actually beneficial if ran, say... once a month :P)



Known malicious program

Here is its description:

Malicious component is found in files iexplore.exe.
(This "malicious" entry must have been put in by FireFox coders! :lol:)



Known malicious program

Here is its description:

Malicious component is found in files mspaint.exe. Added by the AGENT.AH TROJAN!
(Seriously now... these false alarms are getting annoying.... :mad: )



Known malicious program

Here is its description:

Malicious component is found in files notepad.exe. Added by a variant of the RBOT WORM!
(Ok... I've had it! I'm gonna cancel the spyware scan! :evil: )



I ran it a bit longer, always pressing "Ignore" on each alert as to not erase me any of those files! I canceled after getting at least 50 alerts. At a point it was raising alerts but repeating the same files over and over again.

This was obviously coded by someone with a deep hate to Microsoft... The whole operating system seems to be a "malicious program"

[BlackAdder]

Yea I got at least 50 or so positives...it did stop my computer from chugging and something was eating up my free ram almost completely before I ran it.Dunno......thanks for trying it, I probably won't buy it now cause you got much the same results I did. I did download Winrar off of Kazaa a few days ago for MJ12 use and it was loaded with trojans and virii, just about hosed my OS. I do think T.S. caught some leftover problems that AVG and spybot missed but most of it seems to be BS.

[mitro]

Nothing beats the 1-2 punch of Spybot Search & Destroy and Ad-aware, IMO. :D

[AMD-USR_JL]

I did download Winrar off of Kazaa a few days ago for MJ12 use and it was loaded with trojans and virii, just about hosed my OS.

Are you using the original KaZaa? Or are you using Diet K or K Lite. If you are using the original Kazaa Media Desktop then install
Diet K. It will remove all the spyware, adware, and malware that comes in Kazaa. Kazaa also installs two other programs that you do not need, one of them slows down your computer greatly. I would suggest using [url=http://www.bittorrent.com/]Bittorrent (http://www.download.com/3000-2196-10125700.html?part=81671&subj=dlpage&tag=button). There are no malicious programs in it. It also offers more and higher quality files with faster download rates. If you use any p2p program then you need either
Protowall (http://www.bluetack.co.uk/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=viewdownload&cid=5) (if you can get it working) or Peer Guardian 2 (http://phoenixlabs.org/pg2/), these programs block ip adresses of the FBI RIAA MPAA and lots of other places like them, so that they cannot see what you are downloading.

[gamer007]

Don't use Kazaa. Terrible program. Last I've heard the company is being sued.

I use LimeWire, mainly for music, but should work for other things too. Oh, and I too recommend BT. ;)

[BlackAdder]

Thanx...I've been using a stripped down verson K++ which is a few years old. I normally don't have problems like this but I executed the file thru Kazaa and the right click option to scan the file was not present.Had I gone to the shared folder and scanned it first this wouldn't have happened...my bad...I know better. :oops: I've been using Kazaa more since it seems the two Warez sites I downloaded from with are "out of buisness" :-(