This thread's last reply is from June 11, 2005, 10:20 PM UTC. Software, malware, and removal-tool
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Tycho
I was at a party earlier this evening and was talking to a neighbour about the need for security software. I told him about the software that I use (ZA, Ad-Aware, Spybot S&D, Spywareblaster and AVG) and he told me that he uses Symantec which does all that the above do, admittedly costing money, saving a lot of hassel by only using the one program and hence only requiring one download (automatic) from time to time, to keep it all up to date.
Is he correct?
T
ChrisRLG
Short answer NO.
It does not have a trojan scanner. - Try a2 or trojan hunter
It does not have a anti-malware program - spybot M$ anti-spy or ad-aware.
It does not monitor the registry for changes - Spybot and winpatrol.
Norton is also very bloated.
Also no suite is the best of breed in all fileds - so you do not have the best of everything.
Look at the Public Library and the 'computer safey online' topic.
Tycho
Many thanks for the quick response.
T
