I would like to give two thumbs up, a cheer, and a raucus, hurray! to
the previous message. You took the words from me, I run MSE, spybot, and
Malwarebytes on a regular basis. I have found, for the record, that
spybot requires a lot of mouse clicking. That's fine but a bit tedious.
Never tried super antispyware. Anyone tried Hijack this? have used it
once to remove some sort of threat years ago but wasn't sure.
On 2/17/2013 2:00 PM, David wrote:
Wrong.
Sorry, but wrong.
I have had MS Security installed here for quite a long time. Along
with it, I have had SuperAntiSpyware, and Malwarebytes. It all have
been great, and what the one did not pick up, the other would get.
This time it would be SuperAntiSpyware, that time Malwarebytes.
Actually, I have never had MS Security picking up anything, on this
system. Still, I have had a certain trouble here. And, even some of
the online scanners from other manufacturers, did not help me much.
Yesterday, I decided to give Spybot a try. And what do you think? It
found no less than 12 troublesome things on the system. I let it do
its cleanup, and could finally experience my Hard drive spin down, in
the power management, which I haven't been able to for most of a year.
OK, not saying Spybot is the number one solution. Not saying that
either of the many securities out there are a number one. And, all I
have been searching the net, you are ALWAYS recommended to run MORE
than one package. There simply does not exist any such a thing as a
total solution. Whether you now want to run all packages at the same
time, will be up to you. The more security packages you run, the mor
system resources are busying the computer all through the day. For
things like the AntiMalware programs, you might want to run one of
them continuously, and rather just run the others on a regular basis.
Spybot is not a very fast system, and my experience from earlier, is
that it does load your system a bit. SuperAntiSpyware seem to be fast,
and quite light on the system. Malwarebytes, does a pretty good job in
scanning your system, and it did pick up a few threats on one of my
systems a while ago. I don't really run that one on a continous scale,
so cannot speak too much for their built-in real-time protection -
which I do think only works in the paid for version, by the way.
But at least for this reason, my example as of yesterday, should prove
that there might be good reasons for giving more than one security
package a go, on any system. And, at least this turn around, Spybot
did pick up several threats, that none of the others have managed to
discover, even if I have had them do thorough and repeated scans. A
short while ago, it was SuperAntiSpyware, that did the finding of bad
stuff. So, you just never know, which of the databases your system
will match, from one day to the other. Mind you, every single minute,
several new pieces of malware are born on the net. The webpage that
was safe yesterday, will be the worst place to go today. Java, which
is supposed to increase your safety on websites like your banking
site, recently has had that much trouble, that now it is considered a
security risk to have JAVA on your system - simply because it opens up
some "BackDoor" for hackers. Just trying to show, that you never
should rely solely on ONE security software. Best thing is, to be
causious of what you put on your system, and then regularly scan your
system with a cocktail of security software. True enough, you might
not want all of the software to run all the time, and you might want
to only let one software do its scan at a time. But to simply ditch
all other but one; well, that is risky.
----- Original Message -----
*From:* Josh Rivera <mailto:[email protected]>
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Cc:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:* Sunday, February 17, 2013 9:10 PM
*Subject:* Re: spybot 2
Don,
If you are running MSE virus protector on your PC, you shouldn't
need spybot or any other spyware protector. I ran both together
for almost a year, and always when I ran spybot, it never found
any spyware, whereas before using MSE, it always found some. That
means that MSE always found what ever spyware there was, and
removed it. So I un-installed spybot.
On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 12:40:01 -0500 "Don S" <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> writes:
Hi:
I thought I had sent this efore, if I did I apologize.
Has anybody tried spybot version 2 and if so, any problems
with we 7.5.4.1?
Thanks
Don
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