Super Anti Spyware: Better than the other Anti Spyware

Paying money for anti spyware is ludicrous. The free ones are just a good if not better. Some of the famous one such as SpyWall Anti Spyware 1.3.8.9, Windows Defender, Anonymizer Anti Spyware 3.1, and Spyware Doctor 4 cannot do the job of Super Anti Spyware. I have tested them all. Nothing is better.

I know there are some naysayers out there saying that Super Anti Spyware has spyware on it. I know for a fact this is not true. I happen to know that the

Super Anti Spyware is currently being used in various government entities.

The best thing about Super Anti Spyware is; it is free. This is if you don't use the real time protection, and scheduling scan etc. You get better

protection than some of the ones you pay for.

The free ones don't stand up to the challenge either. These include Spybot Search and Destroy, Adaware, and Ewido (during trial period).



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What is the best Free Anti Spyware? Part 2

Well, I finally have a chance to make part 2 of the Free Anti Spyware post. I have been extremely busy. I had to work Saturday this week, which is extremely rarely. At any rate, I do have some interesting finds.

I launch all four Spyware, Ewido Anti Spyware, LavaSoft Adaware Personal Edition, SuperAntiSpyware.com's Super AntiSpyware and Safer Networking's SpyBot Search and Destroy.

Spybot Search and Destroy finished first. It did not show elapsed time. Spybot Search and Destroy detected 36 problems. I selected "Fix Selected Problems."

The next to finish was Adaware. Adware detected 87 critical objects, and 37 negligible objects. This totaled 124. I selected the listed critical objects, and negligible, and clicked next and quarantine, pop up appears, select ok.


The third program to finish was Ewido. It took 1 hour 18 mins. apprpoximately. 58 objects found. I clicked apply all actions.

The last one to finish was Super Anti Spyware and 192 threats detected. The elapsed time was 1 hour 34 mins. After the program finished detection, I click next, and then reboot system.

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What is the best Free Anti Spyware?

The search for a do all, fix all, detect all Free Anti Spyware is analogous to searching for the Holy Grail. Recently, Grisoft purchased Ewido Networks, the purchase gives Grisoft a foothold into the Anti Spyware market. Although you can Ewido for free for 30 days. Is Ewido worth purchasing?

Are any of the Free Anti Spyware truely a notch above the competition?

I decided to conduct my own test. I installed Grisoft Ewido Anti Spyware, LavaSoft Adaware Personal Edition, SuperAntiSpyware.com's Super AntiSpyware and Safer Networking's SpyBot Search and Destroy. I installed all four of them. Ewido, Super Anti Spyware and Adaware SE did not require restarting the computer. SpyBot Search and Destroy did. In this first test, SpyBot Search and Destroy was not included in the test.

I loaded the updates for both Ewido, Super Anti Spyware, and Adaware. Then I conducted a scan of the system. Ewido detected 58 objects found, and 93 instances; the infected objects were tracking cookies. Super Anti spyware detected 193 threats detected, and the threats were from memory, file, and registry; they were tracking cookies as well. Adaware detected 87 critical objects, the critical objects were tracking cookies.

While scanning I noticed that both Ewido, and Super Anti Spyware had elapsed time, and Adaware did not. Ewido had a progress bar showing amounted completed. The rest did not.

I started the scan on Adaware, Super Anti Spyware, and Ewido at virtually the same time. Adaware completed its scan well before the the other two Super Anti Spyware, and Ewido. The elapsed time on Ewido was approximately 1 hour 32 mins. The elapsed time on Super Anti Spyware was 1 hour 28 mins and 43 sec. Adaware did not display elapsed time.

After the scan, I did not select to fix the infected objects, critical objects, or threats. I ran the scan again this time with all four Anti Spyware programs.

In my next post I will report the results of the four programs Spybot Search and Destroy, Ewido, Super Anti Spyware, and Adaware.

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Macromedia Flash

This morning I was surfing CNN, and I happen to go to the cartoon animation section of the website. The cartoon was on political satire. The cartoon was so funny I wanted to save it and pass it along to my friend. I was unable to do this because the presentation was in Macromedia Flash.

I started to do some research on the web. Being a computer scientist, I notice the extension of the file was SWF. I started searching in Google for SWF saver. I found a myriad of them. The one I thought was the best was from BumperSoft. Flash Saver 5.0 did exactly what I needed. However I had a problem afterwords. I had to find an SWF to AVI convert. I found a converter from SWF2Converter. Finally I was able to view this with a Windows Media player, but the clip did not contain sound. I continued looking for a free converter. I must have looked thru 20 different sites, and installed about 10 or so different converters, and every single one of them had a limitation or trial period. Each of them require that you pay a certain amount. The range was $19 to $199. If you can live with the water drop mark on the video clip, or the limited time trial, then utilization of the different shareware SWF to AVI converter is not an issue.
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Part 2: Free Anti Spyware

Part 2:

A month ago my computer started getting slow again. I did not know what was going on. My SpyBot Search and Destroy was not picking up anything. The software had all its patches/updates. Yet my computer was getting slower.

This was really puzzling. I asked my IT friend at work again. I explained to her the situation. It was about how the computer was getting slower and that SpyBot Search and Destroy was not picking up anything. I asked if I should download another free anti spyware program. She said to hold off on it. There was one last thing I can try. She took about 2 minutes explaining this to me.

Later on in the evening I went home and did exactly what she instructed. First I uninstalled the SpyBot Search and Destroy. I restarted the computer. Then I went to the website to download the last version. I reinstalled it, and ran SpyBot Search and Destroy, and it picked up 10 instances of spyware. I selected the option to purge the entries, and SpyBot Search and Destroy executed the command.

I surfed the web for another 10 minutes, did some word processing, and worked on my project from work, and my computer was fine.



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Free Anti SpyWare

A couple of months ago my computer was acting up on me. The computer was less than 2 months old, and for the last month the computer was getting slower by the day. I remember clicking on Internet Explorer, and it took 5 MINS to start the program. I wasn't sure what was wrong.

I spoke with a good IT friend of mine. She suggested that I may have Spy Ware on my computer. Here I have been running the default spyware program which came with the computer when I bought it. I told her I have been running Symantec Internet Security, and nothing is has been detected. I told her nothing is coming up when I do the scan.

Here I have trusted Symantec for years, and paid good money to maintain the support, and subscription. I could not understand why my computer was so slow.

Being a software programmer, I don't have time to keep up with the hot list of Anti Spyware. I work 70 to 80 hours a week on my own software project at a large software firm. I leave IT stuff to the IT people. I worry about programming.

She suggested that I download a free version of an anti spyware SpyBot Search and Destroy. I downloaded it later on in the evening. The installation was easy. I ran the software for the first time. Spybot detected 20 instances of Spyware, or questionable entries in my registry. I selected the option to delete /clean the questionable entries.

Just to be on the safe side, I restarted the computer. I clicked on Internet Explorer, and this time it took less than 3 seconds to start it.

This goes to show that the old adage you pay for what you get isn't quite true.

You can find SpyBot Search and Destroy by clicking on this link, and select the first entry in the main list.



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