Bob said:
Anyone try it?
It scans so fast I doubt it's doing a thorough job. I guess I don't
have any spyware at the moment.
Fred Langa ran a feature on it in his 2004-01-19 Newsletter. I have copied
the entire article below.
1) Free "Bazooka" Aims At Spyware
Fred, Been a subscriber for a couple of years...
Just spent the last week disinfecting my son's
computer from those pesky "searchbar" spyware
programs. Most of the time I was flying blind and
I got rid of most of the problems by manually using
the Windows Task Manager (XP Pro) and Windows
Explorer to delete files. I also used Lavasoft's
Ad-Aware which really helped. But I kept getting
popups now and then. Enter a great piece of
software from Keyphr Software (Sweden) called
Bazooka
http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/ .
Not only did it identify things that I thought I
had eliminated but best of all told me how to clean
things up in clear, understandable language. For
doing the cleanup, plan on using Regedit; so for
those that are not comfortable in going and
changing Registry values, don't get this
software. Two home machines down and one to go.
Keep up the great work. Best, Scott Rutherford
I hadn't seen "Bazooka" before---thanks for the tip!
The software seems capable and full of promise, but still
only detects a relative handful of nasties--- 300 or so.
(AdAware and Spybot both detect something north of 10,000,
Pest Patrol something over 30,000....)
Raw numbers aren't the whole story, of course, and--- as you
found--- no one product always detects all threats. I think
Bazooka's worth running, and worth keeping an eye on: From
the Bazooka update list, it looks like they're cranking on it
all the time, with lots of additions and updates. But I
wouldn't rely on it, yet, as a primary defense.
