Like Adaware but free?

[suzziq03]

I just dled adaware ( thinking it was free ), but when I went to quarintine the several Hijackers,Spyware and adware it prompted me to purchase....... :( I dont have a credit card, dont belive in using them, Does anyone know of a program thats just as good at picking up as the adaware was, but is free? :confused:
Thanks.
Susan

[Quaker_Parrots]

Where did you DL it from? It is totally free.

Here is the free version:http://download.com.com/3000-2144-10186632.html?tag=txt it is 6.0


8.0 is the pay version.

Also, here is spybot: http://download.com.com/3000-8022-10289035.html?tag=lst-0-3 it finds what ad-aware doesn't, as ad-aware finds some things spybot doesn'

[cleaningla]

Here's another link. It also has zone alarm and spybot, plus some other stuff.

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description/0%2Cfid%2C7423%2C00.asp

[suzziq03]

COOL! TY SO MUCH!
I went right to www.adaware.com and dled it the program file is spyassisins. I cant belive how much in this computer, anyone heard of " Ezula" ?? SoBigWorm?? <-- think ive heard of SOBIGworm but not even nortons has picked up on that.
Thank you for letting me so quickly!! im so tired of all these IE type looking pop ups. ugh!

[Quaker_Parrots]

YW, lol, now if I could just fix my Adobe reader. (for some reason when I try to open a PDF file, 6.0 opens a dialog box to install Windows Messenger 5.0 and it is a pain to get it to shut down. I have redownloaded, uninstalled and everything and even got rid of messenger(to no avail) Getting ready to just dump my PC and start new,lol.

[suzziq03]

Oh I know how that is, Im past the dumping stage and at the Tossing it out the door and taking a sledge hammer to it stage :)
Hope your can be fixed, or someone reads this and is able to help you as you have me,.. other than cleaning out cookies and finding things on web im illiterate when it comes to computers. Thanks again! and GL!

[adair]

AdAware is good and there is a free version....go to www.majorgeeks.com and look on the left side down towards the bottom for spyware items.

Spybot Search and Destroy is good also....requires a little bit of time to work and you need to pay attention to it.

I just d/l ed Spyware Blaster and I am pretty impressed with it. It can be found at www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

[BearsBunny2]

I know people that have trouble with spybot messing up their computers. Hubby had it for sometime but changed his mind when he kept having something trying to d/l and he couldn't figure out what it was. Told him to d/l adaware and it will find it, sure enough it did and got rid of it and a lot of other crap on his puter that spybot never did.