Does Ad-Aware do a good job?

[benburch]

Or should I seek out something else?

[cheezus]

1. most people i know use it AND spybot

I use a Mac :)

[benburch]

2. I have six Macs... Three Linux boxes... And one W-2000 PC.

And that one machine is SUCH a Pain In The Ass.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

3. Hey Ben. Yes it does a good job but the problem is with "all"

the Spyware detection availible today is one is not enough. I actually have five+ kinds. I would advise on your Windows 2000 system Ad-Aware, Spybot, Microsoft's Antispyware and get a 30-day trial download of Spysweeper by Webroot. Make sure you also get all those updates for them, then run them. You can get them from www.pcworld.com .

[Matilda]

4. The best program I ever installed is Spysweeper.

I paid for it, and it does a great job. I uninstalled Spybot,
because with Spysweeper, Spybot never found anything any more.

But Ad-Aware still picks up a few things, so I keep it as well.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

5. There's a 30 Day Trial version too.

[Up2Late]

6. I agree, Spysweeper is definitely better than Ad-Aware...

...SpySweeper picked up 50-80 bits and pieces that Ad-Aware missed.

I also use "Ad-Subtract" (used it for years now), it takes care of the On-line and Pop-up ads that the others aren't set up to get rid of.

<http://www.intermute.com/products/adsubtract.html>