>From discussions on this list, it seems to be a good Idea to have a couple of different anti-spyware packages available since one can't get everything. I was thinking of also installing Spybot.
I went to cNet and downloaded a copy. I then looked through some of the user comments on the sight. They are mostly positive (3-1), but the negative comments are very adamant. I thought I would get some feedback from this group before I install this software.
Has anybody here had a negative experience with Spybot? Would anybody recommend not using it? The two main complaints on the cNet site seem to be that one, Spybot installed some form of spyware on its own, and two, that if one was not careful it would false positively identify important system files as spyware which, once removed, cause at best system instability at worse system unuseablity. Anybody experience anything like this? Can anybody offer counter arguments to these in the behalf of Spybot?
Any other recommendations on best of breed anti-spyware programs?
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