[Ham-Computers] PC Tools SpywareDoctor versus AdAware SE

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

Group,

I've been using SpyWare Doctor for a while, and it seems to do a good job at 
least initially without slowing down the machine to badly.  However, I've 
found fairly consistently that after about two days of running in the background 
it starts doing bad things like not allowing you to enter a password to log 
onto a web site.  So in order to run it you must reboot the machine about every 
other day.  I'm trying to see whether the supplier knows of a fix for this and 
a couple of other glitches.

But in the meantime (or as a fallback procedure if needed), has anyone any 
experience with running the paid version of the current version of AdAware SE?  
If so, how good a job does it seem to do and what does it do that it 
shouldn't?  I was under the impression that the intent or intended usage of AdAware was 
somewhat different than anti-spyware but a recent email from them about the 
latest version mentions its use against spyware more than adware.

Robert Downs - Houston
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