Netscape vs Firefox vs Opera vs Internet Explorer

Post by **Airconvent** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 11:58 pm

As I said, I tried Firefox and IE and even Netscape 8, my resident McAfee and Spysweeper shields had more alerts than I was comfortable with.
Switchin to Opera reduced it significantly. But currently sticking to N7.2 because it works. For the occasional site that it does not support (eg Singastro astro photo competition voting!) I switch to Opera or IE.
I would have dumped IE but sadly, McAfee, Norton Systemworks and Spysweeper ALL need IE to update or install.

Clifford60 · Post by **Clifford60** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 3:02 am

Beware of spysweeper, it generates alot of 0 byte files, I used for abt 2 months and it produced >26000 files in its folder and can only be delete under safe mode. It also prompt detection in the registry that can't be found. Uninstall after that.

Now happy with Firefox+PandaInternetSecurity+Spydoctor

Post by **Airconvent** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 1:01 am

Clifford60 wrote:Beware of spysweeper, it generates alot of 0 byte files, I used for abt 2 months and it produced >26000 files in its folder and can only be delete under safe mode. It also prompt detection in the registry that can't be found. Uninstall after that.

Now happy with Firefox+PandaInternetSecurity+Spydoctor

where did you see this? I have checked the main programs as well as under documents and setings and only a few such temp files can be seen. I have installed spysweeper for almost a year now...

Clifford60 · Post by **Clifford60** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 6:51 pm

It should be in the c:\program files\webroot\spysweeper\.... can't recall the actual path.

Not sure which version is yours, I used ver 5.2 and it gave me the problem. I noticed this problem when I was using Panda IS to scan my system, I realised that it took very long to scan one particular directory and found to be belong to spysweeper. When I got into that directory it took a long time to display the files and when I checked the directory property, it showed >26000 files. Filename is a 4 digits hex #, can't recalled the extension, filesize 0 byte. Just uninstalled a few weeks ago.