Re: Dump spy/other scanners?

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On May 6, 1:27 pm, "Adela" <nuevade...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
[WinXP Home 2002-SP2; OE 6; IE 6; OfficeXP; Dell Dimension XPS T448MHz
Pentium III; 384MB RAM; AVG Free Version 8.0; spybot S&D;
SUPERAntiSpy Free Ed.; high speed cable; WordPerfect8; Lexmark Laser printer
"Optra E310"; Windows Media Player; Adobe Reader 8; Adobe Flash Player 10
Activex..]

Hello All, is it true what I was told by an acquaintance that the scanner
SUPERAntiSpy isn't necessary to keep since nowadays the (I don't
recall which he mentioned (could be MS?)) catches any spies and other
undesirables before they penetrate?

I'd love to get rid of these hungry programs as I must save my not very
strong RAM.  If I do get rid of them, I could always scan, if I need, by
going to their own websites?  Right now I have the following scanners or
antis (could someone tell me which ones are superfluous?):

SUPERantiSpy; Malwarebytes; spybot S&D (which never ever finds bad files!);
SpywareBlaster; ie-spyad; Java 6 updated 3.

Thanks so much for any suggestions.    Adela

I agree about S&D - used to be cool, but now finds nothing!

Ad-Aware finds tracking cookies and that's about it for me.

I agree with Ron - Malwarebytes seems the best for me and has
contributed to the resolution of several problems here.

My ISP "gave" me McAfee and I can't stand it, so it is now deleted.
Takes too long and finds nothing. No refund though.

Symantec/Norton makes me shudder. Never used it, never will.

Pick a couple free ones that are popular here, keep them updated and
run every so often just for the heck of it or when you think you have
any weirdness. I haven't paid for any scanning software yet. Keep
your Windows up to date with manual or Automatic Updates for security
updates.

The free ones will have some options unavailable, like no automatic or
scheduled stuff unless you pay. Some things you can run for free
(maybe from a WWW site), but you have to buy it to fix anything it
claims to find. The old bait and switch.

I would also think real hard before using any Registry cleaners/
optimizers/defragmenters, and then decide not to do it. Come back
here first if you think or somebody tells you need something like that
to fix a problem.
.

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