What's the best Pop-Up Blocker? Anti-Virus Software? Anti-Spyware Software?

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are u mad jerome? i reccomend u dont use 3 antivirus programmes at an time plus 2 firewalls on at once is very bad as they can interfere with each other 3 is even worse but if u want an opinion on what antivirus to use i say norton but on the best antispyware protection antispy i say spybot search and destroy or ad aware but microsoft antispy beta is very bad it has never detected one keylogger EVER!! so only use 1 anti virus and 1 antispyware u should never use 3 anti viruses as it can interfere with each other and mess up your software

yeah spysweeper is ok but it lags your comptuer to much and its not that sufficent when it comes to newest dialers and keyloggers the only thing it ever found was sc keylogger lol thats all its never found an trojan downloader for me or nothing that spybot has...

People are asking what is the best anti-spyware program. Believe it or not the best one is free. It is call ad-aware. If you go to www.downlaod.com and click on ad-aware SE you can download it free. From there you just make the updates it is simple and easy to do it also works very well.

Here is a little pointer. Go to www.chasms.com. You can then click on one of the links that will let you look at all of the anti-virus programs. You will get a better visual of what it will do before downloading it.

Do not run more than one Anti Virus program! This could mess up your computer. If one of the Anti viruses detectes the other because of suspicious behavior it could try to attack it so you will have two anti virus trying to attack eachother there for your computer will pretty much crash. If I were you I would run Norton. It is very popullar also it has current up todates.

I have Windows XP Pro 2002, w/Service Pack 2. I have the Yahoo Anti-Spayware, Pop-up Blocker, and all that came with the beta Toolbar. Id this sufficient to protect my computer, or should I remove it, and use ad-aware, McAfee, Spyware Snooper?

I think the first guy was not refering to 3 antivirus but three antispyware detectors and that is perfectly safe and sound advice. He is right one won't cath everything so 2 or 3 is good. As for Antivirus yes definately only have one running but stay away from the 2 most popular mcafee and norton they suck! Get the best one out ther kaspersky or try bit deffender if you like. there are a few others but on test done to see which offers the fastest updates to new virus kaspersky wins hands down and mcaffee and norton fall way down on the list!

My $0.02

I dont think there is much difference between most anti-virus programs. I've basically tried all the populars ones and they're about the same. McAfee, Norton, F-Secure, Avast are the ones I recommend. If u need a good spyware then download spyware doctor cuz it kicks ass!

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I would like to know what is the best anti spy blocker to use on my computer..I have windows 98 on my computer..Can you please tell what anti-spy blocker that i should use or download on the interent..Please Email me back..thanks ..I will be waiting for your response.
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I run Zone Alarm Pro and AVG free edition (daily scans with AVG; unless you're still running a P-II you won't even notice it's running.) I've never had a virus, because in addition to the above I practice safe surfing--and I'm online at least 8 hours a day over broadband, not just a Sunday driver. Because I use Gmail exclusively, I don't have to worry about attachments because Google won't accept them if they contain executable files, not even zipped. (There's a way around that, but I'm not tellin'.)

I scan weekly with Ad-Aware, Pest Patrol and SpyBot S&D. Of the three, Pest Patrol seems to catch the most malware, including the occasional trojan. I normally find five or six a week that get past SBS&D's resident scanner; however, since I installed Microsoft's Anti-Spyware Beta 1 (actually a program from a company they just bought) I haven't found any with the other applications. It looks as though Micro$oft has done something right. They just announced it will remain free, as well. Get it from Windows Update.

This is what works for me. Your mileage may vary.

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