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InfinityAz
January 1st, 2009, 03:20 PM
Which Anti-spyware are you running? You can select multiple items.

Here are the top seven responses from emperordarius' Jul - Dec 2008 poll (number of votes after the hyphen)


SUPERAntiSpyware - 87
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware - 58
Spybot S & D - 28
A-Squared - 19
None - 18
Comodo BoClean - 14
Windows Defender - 12
djohn
January 1st, 2009, 03:29 PM
SuperAntispyware and Malwarebytes
TechOutsider
January 2nd, 2009, 09:44 PM
Windows Defender and Norton 2009.
progress
January 4th, 2009, 03:20 AM
Spybot S&D :blink:
ASpace
January 4th, 2009, 06:31 AM
I'm using Windows Defender on most computers I have
YeOldeStonecat
January 4th, 2009, 04:39 PM
AV detects spyware
EASTER
January 4th, 2009, 07:25 PM
Seeing as i am a diehard XP Professional user and likely to be for some time to come yet my choices are easy, and they go like this but not necessarily in this order.

SUPERANTISPYWARE PRO

MALWAREBYTES :thumb:

Excellent combo!

EASTER
Page42
January 4th, 2009, 07:39 PM
MalwareBytes
Comodo BOClean
SpywareBlaster
Spybot
PiCo
January 7th, 2009, 11:51 AM
I like MBAM a lot, nice and clean GUI, very simple to use and with good detection.
egghead
January 7th, 2009, 02:46 PM
Malwarebytes.

Very good in removing malware. Cleaned a pc yesterday that had been infected with a rogue AV. MBAM detected & removed it where its big competitor could not find a thing. 8)
Franklin
January 7th, 2009, 05:43 PM
-{ Quote: "Malwarebytes.

Very good in removing malware. Cleaned a pc yesterday that had been infected with a rogue AV. MBAM detected & removed it where its big competitor could not find a thing. 8)" }-
Seen that same scenario quite a few times here and where the the resident big name AV had been disabled.

No harm in a follow up scan with SAS either.
Boost
January 8th, 2009, 01:45 AM
-{ Quote: "SuperAntispyware and Malwarebytes" }-
:thumb:
Balatsokas
January 8th, 2009, 05:31 AM
A-Squared and SUPERAntiSpyware

:thumb: :thumb: :thumb:
the Tester
January 8th, 2009, 06:16 PM
Spyware Blaster and SUPERantispyware free. Win Patrol Plus real-time.
funkydude
January 8th, 2009, 07:04 PM
ESET & Spybot SD
noone_particular
January 9th, 2009, 05:19 AM
None of the above. I don't use any signature based detection software of any kind. With a default-deny security policy, I don't have to be concerned with identifying spyware/malware.
HURST
January 9th, 2009, 06:30 AM
SAS & MBAM
blacknight
January 13th, 2009, 05:34 AM
A-Squared - why it has so few votes ? :o - and SuperAntispyware. My browser is Opera, so I don't need SpywareBlaster or Spybot.
chrisretusn
January 13th, 2009, 06:44 AM
Outpost and Spybot S & D
rolarocka
January 13th, 2009, 11:53 AM
MBAM, SAS and since a few days a-squared 4 Free only. Really good detection rate (A² Free).
ThunderZ
January 13th, 2009, 11:56 AM
what djohn said;D
Relentless
January 13th, 2009, 12:21 PM
SUPERAntiSpyware
progress
January 27th, 2009, 03:18 AM
-{ Quote: "Spybot S&D :blink:" }-

... and A-Squared 4.0 (with Ikarus AV) :P
O.Alexander
January 30th, 2009, 12:55 AM
Superantispyware for me.

Despite MBAM being very popular,
it really never worked well for me.

First time I used it, tons and tons of FPs.

After sending an email to them,
no replies. (this was a long time ago)

I decided to give another shot recently,
then MBAM crashes everytime I want to do a scan.
Another failure for me, ignored my e-mail again.

No offense, maybe it's just me,
It never worked for me. :'(
LoneWolf
January 30th, 2009, 06:14 PM
Although I have a pro lic for Malwarebytes AntiMalware,
I only do an occasional on demand scan.
No need to run in real time.
At least not here. ;D