[Ham-Computers] PC Tools SpywareDoctor versus AdAware SE

[Gareth]

WA5CAB at cs.com wrote:
> 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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In my opinion SW Doctor uses way to many system resources.

Happy Holidays
Gary  N1MSV