[vanmol]

Hi Are these 3 programs compatible with each other or would adding SpyWareBlaster to a system that already has Adaware and Spybot be unneccessary??

 

[pyritechips]

Hello:

I run all three.

Spybot and Ad-aware compliment each other without interfering with each other; what one may miss, the other will catch.

The above apps detect and eliminate spyware whereas Spywareblaster prevent spyware from being installed in the first place.

 

[Cookiegal]

I also run SpywareGuard in addition to SpywareBlaster. You can get it here:

http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareguard.html

Cookie

 

[smeegle]

Vanmol, I've wondered about this as well, particularly since another member had recommended SpyWare Blaster a few weeks ago. If you go to the spywareguard site it recommends the combination of the "blaster" and the "guard". Now to piggyback on your question, Wouldn't we eventually have a screen full of icons featuring anti-spyware programs if we continued to download all of them? I have Adaware and Spybot already. Do I really need to add others?

 

[TOGG]

I suppose it depends to some extent on your computer's spec as to what resources you have available to run lots of real time scanners etc.

I have a total of six security related apps running, anti virus, anti trojan (with registry monitor), firewall, cookie wall and Startup Monitor. If I switched on the Ad Watch component in AdAware that would be one more!

I have AA , Spybot and SpywareBlaster and did try SpywareGuard but removed it because I thought it might just be the straw that broke my (450Mhz, 128MB Ram) camels back!

 

[vanmol]

HI guys Right now I have Adaware, Spybot, Spywareblaster, Zonealarm (free) running. Since the addition of Spywareblaster yesterday it seems that a couple of online sites have slowed down a bit. If I can attribute it to Spywareblaster I'll probable remove it.

 

[TOGG]

I may be wrong (I frequently am) but, unless you have AdAware Plus or Pro, of the programs in your list only Zone Alarm runs in 'real time' as far as I know but I stand to be corrected on that.

You don't mention an anti virus but I assume you have one running. I have NAV and I understand that it and ZA are considered to be resource hogs.

What seems slow to you would probably be lightning fast to me, especially if you have a 2Ghz CPU and 512MB of fast RAM!