In a message dated 09/04/2006 17:15:19 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
I periodically run adaware on my system and always find some critical items
which I delete. I just checked my Norton Virus/Spyware protection and
noticed all the adware and spyware that it is on alert for. My question is
why
does the adaware find items that Norton hasn't, which seems to be what it
happening. Are the adaware finds less critical to the Norton program?
IMHO a program or a Security Suite of Programs that is designed to carryout
a number of functions is never going to be as good as individually programs
designed to be fit for the intended purpose. I therefore have a separate
Firewall (McFee) and anti-virus program (Avast). You don't need to search
long
on Yahoo computer group sites to see that Norton software is far from perfect
at both identifying and/or removing spyware.
As regards your question, how do we know for sure if you don't tell us what
Adaware found? It may only be tracking cookies, but personally I don't want
anything that has the potential to report my business to third parties. I
would be surprised if any single anti-spyware application is capable of
finding
anywhere near a 100% of known spyware infections. In fact I would say that
there performance is so low that we would not accept this in an anti virus
program. So I run a number regularly Adaware, Spybot, Ewido,
SuperAntiSpyware,
Asquared and X cleaner. In addition I have spywareguard and spyware blaster
running in the background, and of course Windows Defender. I also have some
anti - intrusion software running,
An important factor is how quickly and frequently the software is updated, I
find some applications find some infections that have not been disclosed by
others. Having said that I would be unable to grade each of the applications
as I would need numerous identical computers and I would need to run the
programs I run in various permutations.
As far as I am concerned most spyware can be critical, I think if Adaware
describes it as that you should treat it as such, apart from that it describes
others as low or negligible risk. I think the old proverb about not puting
on your eggs in one basket applies here.
Regards
Paris
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