Do Spybot SD and Ad-Aware program interfere with one another? I don't use either of them for active protection, just for scanning purposes. Today i installed Spybot SD and it said that Lavasoft's Ad-Aware might interfere with Spybot. Does this mean I can only have one working spyware removal program?
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I think it is fine as long as you only have one doing active protection. Or in your case with neither doing active protection I think you're all set.
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I've used both before with no problems. Even had SBSD active protection on, too.
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is the SBSD active protection a free feature?
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Well, I dislike Ad-Aware. Their last good release was SE Personal Edition. Now I use SUPERAntiSpyware in place of it.
But every malware scanner use different engines and yes, the SBSD active protection is a free feature. The whole software is freeware.
If you like both products and want to use them, you should be able to use both without conflict. -
Yeah, neither program conflicts with the other, but I wouldn't recommend using them.
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as a general rule is not advisable to use many antivirus or antispyware on the same machine because you could get false-positive. sometimes when the software gets updated it may detect the other software as a virus or a spyware. use a good antivirus and a good antispyware..that's all you need
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However, I would agree that it is unneeded to have more than one program of a particular type active scanning at once. But that is not the case here. -
add superantispyware to your arsenal
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SBSD is not bad, just don't use the Immunize feature if possible, cause your host file will get really big, then it might cause other problems later.
For AV, I don't recommend running 2 or more AV real-time shields in a system.
Same goes for AS, just don't run multiple real-time shields at the same time, you can install multiple AS, but don't enable the real-time shield for all of them. -
You can use Immunize option in S&D but i think better solution will be add HOST file form this page: http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
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Spybot SD and Ad-Aware
Discussion in 'Security and Anti-Virus Software' started by lnknprkn, Jun 16, 2008.