How authoritative is this site?

Jan 02, 2005 22 Replies

Yes, moving on from my initial question about the site, i am concerned that this is as well a protected machine as I can muster, and currently have the following in place :

ADSL access via a Draytek 2600 firewall router at default settings Sygate personal firewall NOD32 anti-virus Process Guard free edition

I also regularly run a variety of spyware and trojan detection utilities such as Ad-Aware et al, but more recently discovered CWS_NS3 was on this machine (reported via the Spyaudit util at

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which surprised me considerably seeing how tight a ship I run.

My guess is that I am fairly safe given that which i have read here, and on the site in question.

I used to use Blackice (defender?) but understood it had been acquired by another developer and wasn't quite what it used to be? YMMV

I wonder just how accurate webroots spyaudit is?.I just scanned and it says i have "brilliant digital" adware installed ,yet no other adware/spyware scanner detects it ,i.e adware/spybot/pest patrol etc.Ive also searched manually for signs of it and see no traces at all.Apparently webroots spysweeper (spy audit)has false positived on the malware it says was on your computer...

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You know better than I do what's really on your machine, but I haven't been impressed by Webroot's Spyware detection software. I run an enterprise edition of Spysweeper on one of my laptops and it is prone to false-positives. In fact, I was alerted to having a version of the CWS trojan, but the program's audit trail is poor.

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