Conrad-SpyBot
2010-02-08, 01:33
I've used SpyBot for a few years without incident or any sort of "failure" of the software to protect my PC.
Simultaneously, with my use of SpyBot, I DID have a failure while using McAfee virus protection and I switched to Norton virus scan (both McAfee and Norton were REALLY cumbersome, but removing the virus after the McAfee failure, was a thousand times worse than either of those programs).
I then switched to ESET NOD32 for anti-virus protection.
IT WORKED GREAT and very easy (pretty much in the background).
Since I'm probably NOT a heavy lifter as far as Internet usage, my experience might not be very "important" but it resulted in my becoming a less frequent user - updater of my SpyBot scanning software.
I have recently noticed that when I do a "system scan" of my PC using the ESET NOD32 software, that the ONLY "problem" files (and there are LOTS of them) are named something along the lines of:
"SpyBot zipped file blah blah blah" or perhaps sort of the opposite: "filename, blah blah balh a SpyBot zipped file".
Most all of these odd-named "zipped" files are held in just one or maybe two directories on my computer.
I would like to just "erase" or delete ALL of these odd-named files, so as to just eliminate some of the "junk" on my computer.
Do these "zipped" SpyBot files have any useful or necessary purpose? Does it cause any problem to just delete them?
If this forum is not the place to find a definitive answer to this type of question, where (in SpyBot) should I go to get this question answered?
Thanks for considering my question. : - )
Simultaneously, with my use of SpyBot, I DID have a failure while using McAfee virus protection and I switched to Norton virus scan (both McAfee and Norton were REALLY cumbersome, but removing the virus after the McAfee failure, was a thousand times worse than either of those programs).
I then switched to ESET NOD32 for anti-virus protection.
IT WORKED GREAT and very easy (pretty much in the background).
Since I'm probably NOT a heavy lifter as far as Internet usage, my experience might not be very "important" but it resulted in my becoming a less frequent user - updater of my SpyBot scanning software.
I have recently noticed that when I do a "system scan" of my PC using the ESET NOD32 software, that the ONLY "problem" files (and there are LOTS of them) are named something along the lines of:
"SpyBot zipped file blah blah blah" or perhaps sort of the opposite: "filename, blah blah balh a SpyBot zipped file".
Most all of these odd-named "zipped" files are held in just one or maybe two directories on my computer.
I would like to just "erase" or delete ALL of these odd-named files, so as to just eliminate some of the "junk" on my computer.
Do these "zipped" SpyBot files have any useful or necessary purpose? Does it cause any problem to just delete them?
If this forum is not the place to find a definitive answer to this type of question, where (in SpyBot) should I go to get this question answered?
Thanks for considering my question. : - )