>
> I used Ad-Aware Personal SE and Spybot for years and they never
> had any incompatibility issues. When I installed AdAware 2007 I do
> not remember having any problems with it and Spybot, but that was
> awhile ago.
>
> However, AdAware 2007 only lasted on my computer for about
> a month and I got rid of it as I did not like it. I now use Spybot,
> Spyware Blaster, Spyware Terminator and SuperAntispyware.
>
> At this point, SuperAntispyware is my personal favorite as I have
> been using it at work to clean up several PC's and it does a pretty
> good job. On the last three PC's I used it on it found, and got rid
> of, a total of a little over 900 spyware entries.
>
> The biggest problem I had with AdAware 2007 was I could not
> tell if it was updating. I would tell it to and sit there waiting to
see
> if anything happened. Eventually the update would complete, but
> I hated the lack of a progress bar showing me the percentage of
> completion.
>
> Another thing I did not like was the previous version allowed you
> to pick the directory, or directories, that you wanted to scan and
> AdAware 2007 will not allow that in the free version. Sometimes
> I just want to do a quick scan of the system32 folder, as that is
> where allot of spyware files get stored, and it won't allow that.
>
Thanks jmv for your reply.

You make some good points. I also found SuperAntispyware cleaned some
problems out very well of others pc's I've used it on.

Have you ever had problems where Spybot locks up the pc while
scanning? Spybot S&D just locked up my pc that required a hard boot.
It stopped scanning and everything froze, the display froze and
nothing from the mouse or keyboard. The cap lock, scroll lock and num
lock wouldn't change...

The pc I was scanning was clean and normally runs very well.

Let me know if you've had any lockup problems when scanning with
Spybot S&D 1.5.2.

Thanks,
Duane