Re: AdAware/SpyBot

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From: Jim Macklin (p51mustang[threeX12)
Date: 04/07/04 

Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 15:13:17 -0500

SpyBot can immunize against installation also.

"Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote in
message news:uluxvjLHEHA.3584@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
| In news:O3IB1eKHEHA.712@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl,
| Tony Talmage <fakeaddress@nodomain.com> typed:
|
| > In my opinion, these two programs compliment each other
very
| well.
| > I've had both programs catch things the other did not in
the
| past, so
| > I typically run a virus scan, Ad-Aware, and Spybot all
one
| right
| > after another when I'm doing my weekly scans.
|
|
| I used to run both Adaware and Spybot Search and Destroy
daily.
| Every day, each of them caught things the other didn't.
|
| Then I installed Spyware Blaster a couple of months ago.
Spyware
| Blaster stops spyware from being installed in the first
place.
| Since I installed it, SS&D has not found a single
incidence of
| spyware. I no longer run it daily, but just once a month
or so.
|
| I used to recommend the combination of Adaware and Spybot
Search
| and Destroy, as you do, but I don't any longer. I now
recommend
| the combination of Adaware and Spyware Blaster instead.
|
| --
| Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
| Please reply to the newsgroup
|
| --
| Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
| Please reply to the newsgroup
|
|

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