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Spyware Programs
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Yes, I have the same OS you do, and actually because of this site, I'm also running 'SUPERAntiSpyware'. There are other posters' here that will have much more info than I do, but I can recommend trying a search for that info in the upper right hand corner search box. Probably more info for you there.
We have a lot of positive testimony from own experience and that of several posters that SuperAntiSpyware does a good job as a scanner. I do, however, not recall that anybody was using it as security suite. It may be ok, but I would rely more on the big security suite development houses for that (but NOT AVG please).
I've been using Superantispyware and it's very good. I'd also recommend Malwarebytes, also free and extremely lightweight and effective. I'm also impressed with Norton 2009. I've shunned Norton for a long time and I personally would never use any full blown security suite but the Anti-virus program is light weight and effective. For free, I've moved to Avira anti-virus, it's very effective and lightweight.
Norton and Avast should not be running together and SAS you should use for scanning. Run Norton IS 2009, get rid of Avast and scan when you need with SAS or Spybot (probably mainly for tracking cookies). I am amazed that you did not run into problems yet running them all together.
For anybody who is about to buy Norton IS 2009, I saw this ad from Newegg today where they feature it for under $20 (further down on the page on the right. And you need the promo code shown).
http://promotions.newegg.com/N.....nding.html
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