Current Anti-spayware recommendations?

[Fat Tone]

I know Adaware was once king of the hill, but things move on.

What's the best choice for a small network of ~10 PCs? Auto-updates and scheduled scans are essential. This is an option http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad_...enterprise.php but are they still good?

Ta,

T.

[Gurm]

At this point the only product I "leave installed" is Spy Sweeper.

Recently I've begun using the Antivirus portion of it... which is from SOPHOS!

I've been happy so far, although it DOES use up quite a bit more resources than NOD32, but NOD is terrible at catching spyware.

[ZokesPro]

Amongst the fourth that I use (not just on my system), Spybot still finds spywares. Although since I've switched to Opera from Firefox, I have never seen a spyware since.

[Gurm]

If I'm actively scanning a system for Spyware, I use:

- Spy Sweeper
- AVG Antispyware
- Hijack This!
- AVG Antirootkit
- Rogue Remover

[The PIT]

I tend to use

Spyware Doctor
Webroot Spysweeper
Hijack this
Nod32
mwav
adaware
spybot

None of them are 100% though but you normally manage to cut the head off the spyware.

[UtwigMU]

I use SpybotSD, Super AntiSpyware and Adaware and Avast AV.

They usually get rid of easy stuff, once you get really infested machine you can only format and reinstall.

[Dr Mordrid]

AdAware
AVG Antirootkit
AVG Antispyware
Hijack This!
Spyware Doctor

[Wombat]

To prevent spaying, I recommend never getting married, and staying away from the vet's office.

[Fat Tone]

@ Wombat: I've never looked back.

Thanks guys. I see Adaware barely makes it on your lists these days. Of all your favourites, whats the most proactive? I need something that doesn't rely on the users to remember to scan.

Cheers,

T.

[Gurm]

@ Wombat: I've never looked back.

Thanks guys. I see Adaware barely makes it on your lists these days. Of all your favourites, whats the most proactive? I need something that doesn't rely on the users to remember to scan.

Cheers,

T.

Most proactive with least false positives and least "oh look what Internet Explorer WON'T do any more" would be Spy Sweeper or AVG Anti-Spyware. The latter, of course, comes in a free version so it might be more appealing.

However, I find that if I can just avoid using IE7... *sigh*

Problem is I ... LIKE ... IE7. More than Firefox. Maybe I should get back into Opera, maybe they've fixed the memory leaks by now (ha).

[Dr Mordrid]

Spyware Doctor lets you schedule scans and do silent upgrades.

[dZeus]

Most proactive with least false positives and least "oh look what Internet Explorer WON'T do any more" would be Spy Sweeper or AVG Anti-Spyware. The latter, of course, comes in a free version so it might be more appealing.

However, I find that if I can just avoid using IE7... *sigh*

Problem is I ... LIKE ... IE7. More than Firefox. Maybe I should get back into Opera, maybe they've fixed the memory leaks by now (ha).

I've tried AVG Anti-malware (combination of regular AVG and AVG Anti-spyware), but it eat RAM for breakfast! 100MB for just the office plugins (outlook, work/excel) and _no_ realtime scanning component. Disabling all the AVG services is rather tedious when working with large photoshop files just to free up 100MB RAM.

Next on my try-list is Nod32, which supposedly is light on resources too.

As for opera: wait till 9.50 final is released (should be sooner than later). It's much faster than the 8.x and 9.2x versions (I think somewhere around 8.x the page loading time got longer in opera).

[Mehen]

I have a nice router (Netopia$$), and use AVG Free + IE7. Never had any problems.