Re: Spy Sweeper, McAfee, and SLOOOW Computer

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Helmut wrote:

thanks to both of you for sharing your expertise, this is an
interesting back-and-forth! A further note on my situation: I
actually tried uninstalling McAfee (after reading some posts that
said McAfee hogs resources) and left Spy Sweeper on. My computer was
soon after infected with something (Spydawn?) that just took over
every time I tried to connect to the internet. I was able to fix this
(at least, I THINK I fixed it) by doing a system restore to before I
removed McAfee.

I think this experience means that Spy Sweeper alone doesn't protect
my computer. Ken, if your opinion is not to run more than one at a
time, do you have a recommendation about one protection program that
really works?


Again I know nothing about Spy Sweeper, and have no comments about it. I do
not recommend running more than one anti-virus program at a time, but I very
much *do* recommend using more than one anti-spware product to scan the
system

And I do *not* think that that you can rely on "one protection program."

I use all of the following

Firewall:
ZoneAlarm free

Anti-virus:
Avast

Anti-spyware:
Spyware Blaster
Spybot Search and Destroy
Adaware
Windows Defender.

--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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