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To: Lancey Howard

I'm using the Webroot now (Spysweeper). I like it so far. Dumped Norton off and just use AVG free.

I've got 4 computers in the house and 2 kids. If there's something bad out there, they will find it. :-)

So far so good with the Webroot. Haven't had anything bad happen since I installed it. I was using PC Safe but it let me down, so I went with Webroot on a friends recommendation.

Too bad there ain't a magic bullet for all of it. The guy who comes up with that is going to be rich.


31 posted on 05/31/2005 7:55:05 PM PDT by planekT (Go DeLay, Go!)
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To: planekT
I'm using the Webroot now (Spysweeper).

I use the same one. It wasn't much good until a few months back when they came out with a new version. Now it works very very well. Buy a one yr subscription from somewhere online for $30 in the form of a CD mailed to you, then you can put it on more than one machine in your home with one year of updates. I wouldn't do this, but I have heard of such a thing.

I also use free: AdAware and Spybot as supplemental. AdAware gets more than Spybot, but Spysweeper seems to carry out 95% of the garbage.

57 posted on 05/31/2005 8:37:01 PM PDT by Babu
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To: planekT

I think you made a very good selection. I love my Webroot Spy Sweeper. It's very user-friendly and easy to figure out. That's the one I leave on at all times. I just crank up and run the others once or twice a week as a backup.

The Lavasoft Ad-Aware seems pretty decent, but the Ad-Watch makes no sense at all. It keeps giving me popups with an option to "accept" or "block" and when I click "block", nothing happens. So I don't bother with it anymore.


58 posted on 05/31/2005 8:38:18 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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