TSGL: Antispyware SW on a Wink2K Box?

[Lee Bunyard]

I've been running Windows Defender on both my laptop with XP Home OS and 
my new desktop running Vista OS ever since it became available--I 
haven't found that Windows Defender ever seems to find anything much 
when it scans. 

On both of my pc's I'm running these freeware antispyware products:

-AdAware
-Spybot Search and Destroy
-SpywareBlaster
-AVG Antispyware
-Advanced Windows Care
-SuperAntiSpyware

You can easily find these with a Google search.  Only SpywareBlaster 
runs "resident" on the pc (i.e., loads at startup), the others are 
loaded for scans only when I choose to do so, so the products use very 
little pc resources.  I use only the basic default settings and none of 
them constantly pop up warnings, etc. etc.  Each product seems to find a 
little something different and taken together, they have done a great 
job of keeping my pc's clean.  FWIW--I also use the freeware versions of 
ZoneAlarm firewall and AVG anti-virus.  My son and daughter run the 
exact same configurations on their pc's and none of us have ever had 
virus or spyware problems.  Hope this helps.
Lee in the Mountains of Northern California

Geoff Glave wrote:
> Hi There,
>
> I need to put some 'free' anti-spyware software on a friend's Windows 2000 box.  I've been running Windows Defender on XP (Defender doesn't work on Win2K) for a while so I'm a little behind the latest and greatest.
>
> What do people prefer these days?  I'm looking for something that's relatively painless to run and keep updated - Not something that is constantly popping up dialogs, warnings, installing new features etc - Every time that happens I'll get a phone call.  Suggested settings to keep things clean would also be appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
> Geoff
> Vancouver, Canada
>
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