Thursday, July 19, 2007

Anti Spyware

Now that you have an anti virus, you will need at least 2 anti spywares, because no anti spyware will detect all spyware. Again if you are willing to pay, you should get either Spy Sweeper or Spyware Doctor, all of the following free products that I am about to mention except for Spyware Doctor Starter Edition. Now if you want to get it all for free like I did, :) then you will need to get the following programs. The first one is A-Squared free, this freebie updates daily, has a nice user interface, and has over 785,000 signatures. That is very impressive. To get an exact break up of how many signatures it has for each type of malware, go to their home page by clicking here. A downfall of this program is that it doesn't have a scheduler. The other one is Spyware Doctor Starter edition which comes with the Google pack. It does everything that the paid version does except that alot of its real time protection features have been disabled, it is still a great on demand scanner though (this means that it is good for scanning manually). It has a nice user interface, updates at least once a day, and has a scheduler as well. It has over 440,000 signatures, which although isn't as much as A-Squared, it is still pretty impressive. The biggest downfall of this program, as well as the paid version, is that it adds quite a bit of time to your start up. To get these products click on their names below:
Spy Sweeper, Spyware Doctor, A-Squared, Spyware Doctor Starter Edition.
Remember to comment if you have anything to say, or any other products to recommend, your views are always welcome.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I've been using Spybot: Search & Destroy for years and never had a problem with it. It's really good about updating its virus library and also catches trojans as well as other malicious files.