Originally Posted by Tone
MS Antispyware is absolute rubbish.......
MS Antispyware is actually pretty good, probably because MS didn't write it themselves, but bought it from Giant Software. It offers a degree of real-time protection that goes beyond Adaware (Adaware isn't designed for this).
AVG is to my mind one of the best AV apps around, even the free version is pretty good - I'm slowly replacing Norton with AVG full on the MS systems I oversee.
I do run Adaware and Spybot weekly though (along with HiJack This and Rootkit Revealer and a few other things) - just call me paranoid.
