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hot_pastrami · 05-20-2005, 04:43 PM

It is valuable in that it will be installed on many users' machines who otherwise would have no spyware protection whatsoever. A mediocre anti-spyware app that catches 70% of the spyware is better than catching 0% with nothing.

None of the spyware removal apps are perfect though... if you run them one after the other, each will find a few parasites that the previous one missed. I like Ad-Aware myself, but the differences in comparison to Spybot, Spysweeper, etc are marginal.

05-20-2005, 04:43 PM	#4
hot_pastrami I am meaty Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Salt Lake City, UT Posts: 1,119	It is valuable in that it will be installed on many users' machines who otherwise would have no spyware protection whatsoever. A mediocre anti-spyware app that catches 70% of the spyware is better than catching 0% with nothing. None of the spyware removal apps are perfect though... if you run them one after the other, each will find a few parasites that the previous one missed. I like Ad-Aware myself, but the differences in comparison to Spybot, Spysweeper, etc are marginal. __________________ Hot Pastrami!