Decent free adware remover?

Big Chris · 24 Jan 2006 at 20:27

Right, after 2+ years of popup free action, something nasty has got into my machine. I keep getting half sized windows open offering me stuff, when I don't even have IE open. I got back from eating my dinner, IE was not open but there were two of the buggers sitting there.

My popup blocker is up to date and working fine, it's just today (possibly since installing a freeware app I got from a mate :rolleyes:

).

I've got Spybot which I've updated and ran but still I'm getting these sneaky little things appear.

Help!

Big Chris · 24 Jan 2006 at 21:59

Lavasoft Ad-Aware seems to have done the trick, bagged me 25 little nasties which were lurking with intenet and haven't seen anything out of the ordinary since.

Big Chris · 24 Jan 2006 at 22:31

I tried Hitman Pro as it sounded like a good idea, but a few errors came up while it did its thing, then some more as the apps ran. Not sure I liked it deciding all the settings for me either, I like to know what these apps are doing.

Big Chris · 25 Jan 2006 at 19:27

l33t_p3t3 said:
Search & Destroy is pretty good. Found some on my PC that others progs didn't identify.

uk_viper said:
another vote for spybot

knowlesy said:
add another !!!!

by far one of the best for free !!!!!

As it says in the original post though, I tried Spybot and it didn't detect anything, and that was having just updated the definitions.

Ad-Aware however found 25 instances of naughtiness and having removed them the offending popup has not returned.