How many backup scanner?

I currently have Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware as a backup scanner.

I use DriveSentry and ZoneAlarm Antivirus as my primary real time scanners.

Should I add more backup scanners such as SuperAntiSpyware?

Please advise.

 

i always use SUPERAntYSpyWare for malware that are hard to remove that others vendors missed

 

I've used Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware along with SuperAntiSpyware for a whole year now with no problems whatsoever.

No one program is goin to find all spyware / malware,so it never hurts to have another

 

IMO,It Can't hurt to have a couple of OD Scanners handy,Such as SAS and MBAM.Its better to have the Guns and not need it, then need it and not have it.

 

I don't have any backup scanner installed, and even Windows Defender is turned off(Windows Vista Ultimate). Yes, I do have Avira premium when my laptop is in a working environment (away from home) + UAC on. Every 3-6 months I download SAS and MBAM in shadow mode (or frozen mode) scan, and so far have never found anything, not even a tracking cookie.

As a matter of fact I've decided that from now on I'm going to run a full scan once a year, unless there are some obvious signs of infection. I can safely state that if you run virtualized/sandboxed (any program will do), and you download from safe sources you will never get infected.

 

i always use the same 2 backup scanners, SAS + MBAM. and works really well.

 

Has anyone tried a squared free? How effective is it as an on-demand scanner in comparison to MBAM or SAS Free?

 

1)MBAM
2)ClamWin
3)AVZ AntiViral Toolkit

 

I bet it's pretty good with the combination of 2 scanners, Ikarus + A².

I might install that one as well to play with

 

Same here.

With the fact using shadowing program with addition of SB.

I keep some scanners but they don't find anything. Same thing with AV.

I don't pain myself with scanning anymore.
Sometimes i do full scan if i'm away from the system, just to make my PC be useful and keep it busy .

 

I haven't tried recently.
When the new version was released and i installed it, it was making my PC very slow.

As for an information there is an online scanner for a squared:

a-squared Web Malware Scanner
http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/ax/


A-squared compared to MBAM and SAS it's like comparing AV's.

What one will miss the other will find (not that sharp comparision, but still illustrative).

I think that MBAM and SAS are enough.

If you wish you can add Dr.Web Cure It and Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool.


A-squared is a very good product, but recent version is getting very big.

Also when using as an on demand scanner A-squared has some services running when you turn on/restart PC which i think is not the case with MBAM and SAS.

 

A-Squared Free will have one service running all the time, to allow the program to launch/run when there are malware problems. This service uses about 3MB of memory.

 

Online scanners.

MBAM has bugs
SAS didn't detect SpyProtector.
MSRT didn't really do anything for me.
A-squared has an online version.