Anti Spyware programs?

[Pete S]

Just yesterday it was recommended that I dump AVG Free and switch to
Avast.
They way he put in AVG gets bloated. So Avast here I come!

http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html

Don <www.donwiss.com> (e-mail link at home page bottom).

What I do is to uninstall old avg and restart pc then install new one. This
does seam to make a difference.
I also use addaware (free)

 

[Pastor Dave]

Hey gang,

I have been running Windows 7 64 bit Home Premium since Monday, and am
really liking it so far.

Just curious what others think about the necessity for any spyware programs.
I know Windows 7 has Defender, and of course the firewall.
I also use Avast for my virus program.

In previous versions of Windows, I would normally also run say Spybot Search
and Destroy as well.
I am wondering if the additional ones are really necessary now, Win 7 seems
like it is probably pretty secure. Plus I am generally very careful about
websites I visit.

So what do you think?

It's Windows. Get them!

I use the following successfully under Win7 x64 (all free):

Avast! (now at 5.0)
http://www.avast.com/free-antivirus-download

Ad-Aware
http://lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php

Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
http://tinyurl.com/d5jtuz

MRU-Blaster
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/mrudownload.html

Spybot
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/mirrors/index.html

Spyware Blaster
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/sbdownload_free.html

Super Anti-Spyware
http://www.superantispyware.com/downloadfile.html?productid=SUPERANTISPYWAREFREE

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Pastor Dave

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[Roland Schweiger]

Simply I use
Microsoft Security Essentials for antiVirus and antiSpyware
And in my personal opinion that's all one needs (if at all),
it's small and not so resourcekilling as many others...

http://www.microsoft.com/Security_Essentials/

After installing, it will disable Defender as it replaces it
and security essentials has definitions for "spyware" and "viruses".

greetings

Roland Schweiger

 

[Pastor Dave]

Simply I use
Microsoft Security Essentials for antiVirus and antiSpyware
And in my personal opinion that's all one needs (if at all),
it's small and not so resourcekilling as many others...

http://www.microsoft.com/Security_Essentials/

After installing, it will disable Defender as it replaces it
and security essentials has definitions for "spyware" and "viruses".

greetings

Roland Schweiger

I prefer not to use MS tools. They have proved themselves
to be less than "worried" about my security in the past and
other utilities have proved themselves to be far better.

I mean no offense to your post. I have just found MS
to be less than stellar when it comes to security.

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