avg anti spyware

hello,
has anyone used this or is using it?
is it a decent software or am i better off with something else?

 

Very decent. But also use others too. One is not enough. They pick up different things.

 

Ashampoo AntiSpyWare 2 is another very good AntiSpyware program. It's $30 for the program, but they give you a 40 day trial run.

It also seems to work well with Vista.

 

I've not used AVG for antispyware. I tried AVG antivirus and liked avast! a bit better for antivirus. Personal choice. This post describes what I currently use. A search (or a few searches) here at notebookreview.com should locate a fair number of opinions.

 

I agree with AKAJohn. A search on notebookreview.com will result in many opinions. The fact is that there are many programs, both AntiVirus and AntiSpyWare, that are good products. So it's really a matter of your personal choice.

I also agree with blondie, in that you need more than one AntiSpyWare program, as they each tend to identify different things as spyware, while ignoring others.

 

I use Ad-Aware SE and Spybot: Search and Destroy. I also run this every once and a while on top of those 2 programs and my AV:
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

 

AVG is very good. I find that it detects more than any other single program. Of course, the above advise is still true - use more than one.

 

I'd go with Spyware doctor


I Use

Spyware doctor
Spybot

 

I use adaware and have spyguard installed evne though it has not been updated in ages so it must useless by now lol, I also have spyware blaster I had spyware search and destroy but that destroyed many things that whre not spyware so I discontinued using it.

 

I really love this website , but for security issues take a look at www.castlecops.com . Tops !

 

btw does anyone know how to set up adaware to automatically scan like my antivirus program?

 

I use Windows Defender, so far so good, free. Somtimes I scan w/Ad-Aware SE. I have had no problems 9 months!

 

None that you know about. Give AVG a try and see if it finds anything.

 

You can only do that with the Plus or Pro versions and you have to pay for them.

 

i tried defender but it was using resources even when it wasnt open.
i turned off the resident shield.

 

you mean using avg in a good or bad way?

 

I did a test of the 7 most popular back toward the first of the year.

Here are the results - http://www.davescomputertips.com/Newsletters/20070115.php#3

If you want to read all 4 parts start here - http://www.davescomputertips.com/Newsletters/2006/20061201.php

BTW, Webroot's SpySweeper won!

 

thanks for the link.

 

what about ad aware 2007? the free version?

 

Adaware is VG

 

vg as in very good?

 

I highly recommend AVG
Sorry, didn't mean to be so obscure! VG = VG

I'm so old school that in grade school years ago

E=Excellent which is now an A
VG= Very Good = B
G= Good= C
P=Poor=D
F=Failing=F!

Almost didn't remember P and F (never got any

 

lol alright.
so avg is better than ad aware?

 

Spyware Doctor ftw.

This software has picked up more things then Adaware and Spybot and Windows Care combined. It has picked up more registry keys that have been infected then those combined.

Link here.



Just unclick everything else and leave spyware doctor to download it. Or, if you see something you like in that package, click that too.

 

does it come free with google pack?

 

AVG is anti-virus

Adaware is for removing spyware

Spywareblaster stops a lot of incoming spyware

CCleaner removes temp files and supposedly fixes registry issues.

You need anti-virus and spyware, cleaners and blockers are optional but good, IMO

 

i meant the avg anti spyware .

 

Sorry.


I have not used AVG spyware. I do think more than one is good and run a deep scan every so often.

I'm trying the Spyware Doctor recommended here. I find that when I do run another spyware after running Adaware it usually gives me "false positives", like items which have been quaratined by Adaware or Spybot, not real infections. Some of the free ones that are trying to get you to upgrade identify thngs which aren't real then get you to pay to "remove" them. I doubt Google would represent a company like that. I'll let you know how Spyware Doctor performs. It sure is running slowly, been scanning for like an hour now!

Finally done. It found 2 items, both related for an mp3 site from Bulgaria. I removed both. They had been there for a while but appeared to be links my son had visited in the past rather than data miners. I'll conitnue to test Spyware Doctor and make it part of my routine. Free is good! As I mentioned, most Google things are good. But they are getting so big I am afraid they are postioning to take over the (internet) world.

 

thanks for the information.

 

I use:

AVG anti spyware
Ad aware
Spybot S&D
Spyware blaster

and no problems for the past year.

 

just an fyi - avg anti spyware used to be named ewido anti-spyware

 

yup, that was when i first realised about its existence

 

In that case I would definitely recommend more than just AVG spyware (AVG virus is good).

I deleted ewido as it didn't clean as well as Adaware. It never caught anything Adaware left and Adaware found things after running ewido

 

I use AVG anti-virus, Adaware, Spybot search and destroy, Zonealarm firewall, and as of recently AVG anti-spyware. I never have problems anymore.

 

I use all of those except Zone Alarm, but I still get a Trojan once in awhile. But no problems removing them.

 

well, when i used to use ad aware (the version before 2007), it did not detect this trojan from my flash drive but avg anti spyware was able to detect it.

 

Me Too(I Found Trojan on WinRAR install package today!! Detect by Kaspersky Internet security suite when i perform full scan)

I Use Kaspersky Internet security suite as a main program
SpyBot S&D as secondary .

 

Yes, I've heard good things about Kapersky. But I continue to use AVG free. It hasn't failed me yet.

 

Yes, Spyware Doctor comes free with Google Pack.

 

I updated this post.

 

what functionalities does the free one does not offer compared to the paid one if you dont mind me asking?

 

thanks.
i've read your post

 

Different sorts of 'real-time' protection shields and guards which you pretty don't need running because 1) hogs alot of system resources and 2) if you do manual scans at the end of each week.

 

Just started using AVG Antispyware again yesterday. Seems to work okay in both XP and Vista..........

 

How about real-time like Spywareblaster or Spybot? They don't seem to hog resources on my setup. And if you wait for a week to scan instead of blocking won't they be data mining you for that week?

 

From their website (http://www.pctools.com/spyware-doctor/):
"The trial offers time unlimited real-time protection (free spyware blocking), but does not remove threats detected during on-demand scans."

 

thanks...

 

The one in the Google Pack (Spyware Doctor Express) does remove spyware, I've tried it and it works pretty well.

 

thanks for letting me know