Windows Defender or AVG Anti Spware

Windows Defender never seems to do anything ( except go wrong once in a while) so I have changed to AVG Anti Spyware 7.5 ( free) ie Non Resident Shield.

Is there anyone out there who thinks that Windows Defender might be better ?
again assuming only used for Scaning and not actively running.

 

I highly doubt Defender is in the league as AVG AS.

 

Hello,
Stay with AVG, they knows what they're doing....
Mrk

 

AVG Anti Spware is definitely the better choice!

 

Thanks everyone

The final choice (until I change my mind) is:

(1) Netgear DG834 Firewall
(2) Firefox (No scripts)
(3) Net Address delivering mail checked for spam and virus
(4) Antivir PE Classic Free - On demand
(5) AVG Anti Spyware Free - On demand
(6) ProSecurity 1.26

 

At the risk of repeating myself, I had Microsoft antispyware, later named Windows Defender installed on my pc for over a year and it found one piece of malware. I could do a scan and it would find nothing, and then I would run Ad-Aware and catch 3 data miners. As for AVG, I bought it when it was ewido, and run it live. It has caught over 2,900 bad things on it's own since I installed it.

 

Looks like a good, fast setup.
One other idea you can try is adding the dr web scanner link to firefox. It gives you the option of scanning a file using the online dr web scanner before you download it.

 

AVG Anti-Spyware FTW.

no need words.

 

Thanks - Have just tried this. Am I using it properly ? I found a file which Dr Web checked saying it was clean and then downloaded in the normal way ?

Is there really much/any benefit to doing this compared to downloading and then using Antivir to check before activating a file ? Are there downloadable files which will auto run when the reach the desktop ? I suppose so otherwise why check before down load ?