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Old 21st Feb 2006, 15:49
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Mac the Knife

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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.

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