Spyware Doctor or Ad-Aware

[Tbag]

which 1 is better Spyware Doctor or Ad-Aware or shall I use both to be safe?

[ROF]

Both are good. I would say it depends on the issues you are having that warranted you to search them out to begin with.

[Tbag]

Both are good. I would say it depends on the issues you are having that warranted you to search them out to begin with.

Ive used ad-aware for a while now but I was afraid of things it didnt pick up without me knowing

[redwudz]

I've used both before also. I now have Spybot S&D, Spyware Blaster, Stopzilla, AVG antivirus, along with Protowall and a hardware router firewall. Probably overkill, but they all work well together and don't cause any net access problems for me. I prefer freeware solutions whenever possible.

It is important that whatever programs you use can get along and not interfere with each other.

[TBoneit]

Myself I use Spy Sweeper running in the background all the time, There is a Free version of Ewido 4 on the AVG free page, I also use Spybot Search & Destroy, Pest patrol, Windows Defender (Microsoft freebie) and of course Norton AV 2006. They all find some things the others miss. However by the time I've run them Ad-Aware deosn't find much.

I do this sometimes here at work and also use HiJack This, HostsfileReader, and CWShredder. amongst others, and certain ones for other things that are a specific cleaner works best for.

Generally after SpySweeper the machine is pretty good, After Ewido and Spybot its even better, Then a Good Antivirus scan and you are getting close.

Of course the best cleaner is a reformat/restore from a Image file of a clean install

[JerryB]

which 1 is better Spyware Doctor or Ad-Aware or shall I use both to be safe?

hi,
spyware doctor is very good has many more features in it and it relatively fast...... and you can't go wrong with it beingyour primary antispyware.... however.... no single antispyware program is good enough.... it generally recomended to have at least 2!! in order to have the higherest probablitly of detect and clean! ....

note: if you look at some of test reviews by smart computing and windows secret news letter ... you find that overall about the best you can expect a single antispyware to detect is about
75-85%... ifyou use two good antispyware programs you can maybe get that up to about 90-93% ...

you can't go with having either adaware or spybot beingyou secoundary program..... I would probably favor spybot allittle better than adaware but spybot slow but adaware faster.. smile

[CilyPudi]

I have ran both and I'm sure Spyware Doctor is the superior program, but Ad-Aware is free. A few years back, Ad-Aware and Spybot were the best things around, but now I don't find Ad-Aware well updated.

Spyware Doctor offers realtime protection and a ton of other stuff, but it'll take up about 20MB of RAM also.
I bought SpySweeper a long while back and have not been impressed at all. PestPatrol is a rip-off too.

In short, if you run all of these, and you can without conflict, you'll have little problem with adware/spyware: Spyware Doctor, Ewido (paid version), Ad-Aware, Spybot S&D, the free Spyware Terminator with realtime protection, SpywareBlaster and Spyware Guard. You'll be covered but Good!!

Also, the free 'CCleaner' is known to clean up the crumbly spyware crap laying around in temp/index.dat files. Get it at www.ccleaner.com.

May I suggest you change from AVG to AntiVir. I used AVG back in the day, but now test show AntiVir is much more effective. I can confirm this. It is much better supported. Get it at www.free-av.com.

CilyPudi must now resume surfing and eating the seedless red grapes.....................

[Lucifers_Ghost]

It hasnt been mentioned here but the Microsoft Antis-spyware program is quite good as well. At least in my experience.