Anti Spyware programs?

"Don Wiss" <donwiss@no_spam.com> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Don <> wrote:
>
>>Enkidu <> wrote:
>>> Did you find AVG became a greater resourse hog after each upgrade? It
>>> made my wife's older XP system pretty much unusable.
>
>>I did, I used AVG for years , and switched to Avast about a year or so ago
>>due to that.
>
> 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)
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Pete S

On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:57:30 -0600, "Don"
<> spake thusly:


>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/down...NTISPYWAREFREE

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Pastor Dave

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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

On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:54:38 +0100, "Roland Schweiger"
<> spake thusly:


>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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