I used to use Adaware on my xp desktop years ago, and that used to be the best back then. Now it blows. I currently have NO spyware removal programs besides Windows Defender on my vista laptop...but every time I scan, it finds nothing. it doesnt worry me so much, but i just remember scanning with adaware and it would find things ( dont know what, was too long ago). im currently trying a squared on my desktop to see if i like it. its been scanning forever...25 mins so far on smart scan. seems good though...im going to try SuperAntiSpyware after to see which i like before dling it on my vista laptop.
im not looking for real time protection, just something i can open, let it scan and remove spyware. which of the two is best for me? or is there any better free program? thanks.
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I'd say go with both, but if I had to choose, it'd be SAS. To me it seems like the better program. I also don't like how A squared has a service or two that starts up on boot, but they don't do much. I think they're supposed to make the program open faster or something like that. I'd rather wait a second or two longer to open the program, than have something constantly running and doing nothing.
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adware would always find those worthless ie logs for me.... I was happy about that since nothing was ever found....
I used two adware and spybot.
Vista is fairly good... I don't know about the new programs out... I've not really thought about them.... -
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Unfortunately, you can't disable it from starting at boot-up. It's not in the start-up menu in msconfig or winpatrol. You might be able to deny the service from starting up by going into services and preventing it from running. However, because A squared uses those programs to open, it's kind of a hassle to go into services whenever you want to open/close the program. Now I haven't tried turning it off for good via services, so the program may work without it.
Edit: Actually, now that I think about it, setting it to manual may work. I'm going to try that. -
oh, then a squared is out of the question. i dont want extra baggage on my boot time. >
its on my desktop right now though, still scanning....lol. dont care for boot time on that...its on 24/7.
however, my laptop which is always on the go needs to be in fast condition. sas doesnt add anything to startup right? i was looking at screenshots and there is an option to have it run when windows starts, im just going to uncheck it.
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Yeah, I just unchecked that and nothing from it runs at boot-up.
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ok i see it is real time protection. how heavy on resources is this?
EDIT:Real time blocking is only for paid version. nice. -
Yeah, it's technically for real time blocking and I think helping A squared load. However, the free version doesn't have real time protection like you pointed out....
I don't think Ad-aware or Spybot are good anymore. -
oh i was referring to SAS. great. i cant test SAS on my desktop due to it using the windows installer service...damn you xp sp3...
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Yeah, SAS Free is a very good on-demand scanner
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i dled and installed it on laptop. its nice. it didnt find anything which is good.
it did add considerable amount of time on my reboot though...=[
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That's odd. When I installed SAS, my boot time was not effected. Did you turn off both start SAS when windows starts and scan on program start-up? I'm guessing you did though.
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u can try Malwarebytes AntiMalware
wen u say ad-aware found things, it probly just picked up tracker cookies -
ya i disabled that, as well as checking for updates. i can just do that manually before a scan anyways...idk. ill let it phase out. it'll get back to normal soon, hopefully.
yea thats what i figured. thats all sas found too. my online habits are superb 8]
SAS or A-Sqaured?
Discussion in 'Security and Anti-Virus Software' started by McGrady, May 21, 2008.