Re: Spyware prevention

'Maxine' wrote:
| The latest issue of Consumer Reports rates F-Secure and Webroot's Spy
| Sweeper as the two best for spyware protection.
|
| I'm about to get a new computer and want to prevent spyware from the very
| beginning. I've always just used Spybot and the free version of Ad-Aware.
| But I'm willing to spend some money if it's worthwhile.
|
| Opinions?
_____

#1. 'Consumer Reports' has yet to get its ratings for computer related
items exactly right.
#2. 'Spybot Search & Destroy' and LavaSoft 'Ad-Aware SE Personal' are
widely used and praised.
#3. 'Super Anti-Spyware' is very good, and like LavaSoft 'Ad-Aware' comes
in a free and a fee version.

At present, there is no 'one application does it all', so pick your
antivirus program based on how well it handles viruses, and supplement that
program with several others like those listed above to boost protection
against other types of malware.

I thought I'd reply to your post here since replies to your post in
'alt.comp.virus' have swerved off into a discussion of 'rogue anti-malware'
and the reply in this one swerved into net-nannyism.

Phil Weldon

"Maxine" <mg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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|
| The latest issue of Consumer Reports rates F-Secure and Webroot's Spy
| Sweeper as the two best for spyware protection.
|
| I'm about to get a new computer and want to prevent spyware from the very
| beginning. I've always just used Spybot and the free version of Ad-Aware.
| But I'm willing to spend some money if it's worthwhile.
|
| Opinions?
|
| Thanks,
| Maxine


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