I just installed the lastest version of spywareblaster (3.4) and discovered that I have over 800 Active X entries associated with adware/spyware. I of course enabled protection for all of these entries but I would really like to remove them all to clean up my Win98SE registry and then let spywareblaster identify/block any new ones from being installed. Unfortunately, spywareblaster doesn't remove any registry entries, it simply activates the entries 'kill bits' that prevent them from being accessed or whatever these bits do. All of the other spyware programs (e.g. AdAware, Spybot etc.) do not identify these entries and no reg cleaner would identify them either. I hate to try to remove them one at a time by hand. Is there a program that could identify and remove these entries? MarkUS

I think you're mistaking what SpywareBlaster does. All of the entries it shows are malicious Active X controls and tracking cookies that it will protect against. It doesn't mean they're on your computer and it isn't a spyware scanner, and hence can't remove anything. Check the boxes to enable protection. Spybot S&D and Adaware will scan your computer and clean anything found. SpywareBlaster will add registry entries to prevent a lot of spyware ever coming back.

I may be mistaken about what spyware does, but I'd like to point out that Spyware blaster reports that I am protected from 800 or so spyware items and that the spywareblaster database contains 3,530 different items. Does it select only those items that are in my registry? I did find that the first few items in the protection list appeared as CLSID's in HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\ ActiveX Compatibility although they did not appear in HKCR\CLSID. Spybot did not detect any of these items. I am not very familiar with how this all works, and I need a more thorough explanation if there is one. Thanks MarkUS

I don't think spyware blaster "detects" anything, it just "protects against". i am no expert though. Jen

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I see now that spywareblaster simply inserts "Compatibility Flags" values into the ActiveX Compatibility CLSID entries. I am assuming that it inserts additional CLSID's into the registry when you first run it and then establishes the 'kill bit' value Hex400, which then hopefully either prevents these ActiveX controls from being installed or if they are then insuring that they cannot be run within a web browser. Interestingly, I have some ActiveX entries that contain compatibility flags values that are not Hex400. Presumably, these are necessary controls that must be allowed to run. Spyware Scan revealed no spyware. I guess this is all I can do. Thanks for the input. MarkUS