Ad-Aware vs Trend Micro Anti Spyware

edited July 2005 in Science & Tech
Being a first time user of this forum, i wonder if this question has ever been posed.... I am a regular user of Ad-Aware, and a friend told me about Trend Micro Anti Spyware. My question is... do these programs both do the same thing, or is it okay to run both of them on my system. I know this is not like running two firewalls ( a no no ), but not sure if these programs both catch the same type of problems. Excuse me if this has already been asked before, but doing a search on "Ad-Aware vs Trend Micro Anti Spyware" did not answer this question.

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  • Shadow2018Shadow2018 Northwest Missouri
    edited July 2005
    No two spyware programs are the same. Typically it takes 2-3 spyware programs to ensure system cleanliness. The way these programs work you will have 1 program that will find certain things that others will not. The same applies to virus programs.
  • Mt_GoatMt_Goat Head Cheezy Knob Pflugerville (north of Austin) Icrontian
    edited July 2005
    I have been using Adaware and Spybot S&D for years with perfect cleanliness. :cool: And the best part is that both are free!!! :D I know a lot of people who insist on paying as they feel free is always inferior. Well the truth is that these same people keep having problems while I don't. ;D

    Just my$ 0.02
  • CBCB Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Der Millionendorf- Icrontian
    edited July 2005
    Yea, in fact, just AdAware is really enough most of the time. Like with Virus scanners, you can always have the chance of catching more problems with miltiple programms, but it's not double, so you have to decide if having to run an additional program is worth the extra few things that you can catch.

    i.e.

    Running Adaware will proly catch 95% of malware

    Running Spybot with it, might raise that to 98%

    Running a third might raise that to 99.5%

    etc...


    IMHO, it's not worth it to have to run more than one peice of software, but I'm a 'software minimalist', so take it as you will...

    Oh, and as for the question you asked: I think AdAware is better, despite being free... I also like Avast! Virus scanner (www.avast.com) better than any of the pay-for scanners.
  • Shadow2018Shadow2018 Northwest Missouri
    edited July 2005
    CBDroege wrote:
    Yea, in fact, just AdAware is really enough most of the time. Like with Virus scanners, you can always have the chance of catching more problems with miltiple programms, but it's not double, so you have to decide if having to run an additional program is worth the extra few things that you can catch.

    i.e.

    Running Adaware will proly catch 95% of malware

    Running Spybot with it, might raise that to 98%

    Running a third might raise that to 99.5%

    etc...


    IMHO, it's not worth it to have to run more than one peice of software, but I'm a 'software minimalist', so take it as you will...

    Oh, and as for the question you asked: I think AdAware is better, despite being free... I also like Avast! Virus scanner (www.avast.com) better than any of the pay-for scanners.


    Then get Spywareblaster

    It is the best software because it blocks spyware from even entering your system.
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