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Peoples-Agent
05-20-07, 08:52 PM
Hi folks,

Just wondering.... what would you say would be the better option, and would have less slowdown impact on web browsing or windows generally between Windows Defender and Lavasoft Ad Aware (Adwatch) 1.06 Professional.

Running Windows Vista, and found myself disabling Defender to ease disk usage, but would Ad Watch itself have more of an impact ?
grey_1
05-20-07, 09:03 PM
Ad-Aware without a doubt bro.

It's fast, updates are very regular and it uses next to no resources next to defender.

Run in conjunction with spybot search and destroy - kick ass combo.
|MaguS|
05-20-07, 09:08 PM
Ad Aware, it doesn't run in the background eating up your resources... I disabled Defender right away...
Peoples-Agent
05-20-07, 09:19 PM
Cheers for the heads up.

Adios to Windows Defender.

To be honest, I don't think Defender ever picked anything up, and Ad Aware always seems to find something. Noticed it picks up those stupid marketing pop up cookies.
DRen72
05-21-07, 01:22 PM
You running the beta of Ad Aware Pro 2007 for Vista for forcing the one from XP? (Just curious)
grey_1
05-21-07, 02:02 PM
I just download the lastest free version myself. Along with spybot and clean surfing habits I don't have any trouble.
J-Mag
05-21-07, 02:43 PM
Seriously, when was the last time you've ever found any sort of malware with those programs?
zoomy942
05-21-07, 04:01 PM
i using defender on my work pc. its okay i guess. i dont go anywhere on the inter-wibble that might give it a workouit
Peoples-Agent
05-21-07, 09:00 PM
You running the beta of Ad Aware Pro 2007 for Vista for forcing the one from XP? (Just curious)

Using 1.06 , seems to run fine without a problem in Vista.

I did try the beta but wasn't impressed, too many glitches.
XDanger
05-21-07, 09:12 PM
one of the free ones found a keylogger the other day on my xp drive while using vista, wasnt hiding very well though in system 32
grey_1
05-21-07, 09:32 PM
Seriously, when was the last time you've ever found any sort of malware with those programs?
Using them on the girls pc before I locked myspace out ---alot. Now, usually just the odd trojan and tracking cookies.

On my rig, usually just shows up with the mru list.
SLippe
05-22-07, 04:47 AM
WD sucks. Ad-Aware and Spybot are pretty damn good. I've been using Hitman Pro since about a month ago.
Banko
05-22-07, 12:05 PM
Spysweeper IMO is the best.
t3hl33td4rg0n
05-31-07, 04:23 AM
Spysweeper IMO is the best.
I would agree about a year ago... Now its bloated resource hungry.

I've been using Sunbelt CounterSpy. It picked up things Pareto Anti-Spyware, Ad-Aware, and F-Prot didnt detect.
MarcAndrews
04-10-09, 07:40 PM
Seriously, when was the last time you've ever found any sort of malware with those programs?

Today, sir. I am a techie by trade and Ad-Aware nailed a piece of spyware that I couldn't get rid of any other way. We knew it was there but there was no getting rid of it via our regular tools.