Smart Computing Magazine Hits Subscribers – Schrock Article on Spyware Included

1. Petro
   Petro said on March 27th, 2007 at 6:50 am

   Thank you for this article. Please continue to post your Smart Computing articles on your blog. What is your opinion on Windows Defender? I use its real time protection capabilities. The way I see it is if one gets bad spyware on his computer it’s going to be very difficult to remove the spyware. Better to format and reinstall the operating system.

   For those who are visually impaired you can receive the Smart Computing magazine in cassette format from your local NLS library. National Library Service. This is a free service for the blind.

2. Josh the Aspie
   Josh the Aspie said on March 27th, 2007 at 10:26 am

   It really depends on the Malware. Some of it you can remove without to much trouble, just by running Adaware, or Spybot. I haven’t tried the Maintenance Check Up Home Edition, but I hear it can tackle a lot of bugs too.

   There’s also the possibility of rebooting your computer in safe mode, running SmitRem and then running Adaware (and maybe spybot). I checked out the Schrock Tutorials, and some lot of them show you how to do that for removing adware.

   If that doesn’t work then yeah, it may be best just to return to a restore point, or reinstall the OS. But keep in mind that in order to remove the spyware for sure, you’ll have to wipe the hard drive too.

3. Eli
   Eli said on March 29th, 2007 at 6:39 pm

   I get smart computing Magazine. I’ll have to read up on the article.

4. Bill Tones
   Bill Tones said on March 31st, 2007 at 9:58 pm

   Do you write for them every monbth now? You have had articles in the past three issues. What’s next PC World?

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