Try
www.pandasoftware.com, you can run an active scan
from the web site. It is free to do this. I tried "all
the others" & I will not use anything but panda from now
on. For me panda has gotten all the spyware and a virus I
picked up. I also use ad-aware se personal & it picks up
cookies that use your information. Try these & see what
you think.
Darlene
Same statement of you, so the same answer as for other your post
So here it goes:
It was a bad idea, I think, to drop out the MSAS..
There are many different kind of threats to your system and active online
scanner will not shield your computer from them - active online scanner is
only a tool to detect malware in already infected system or to prove this
system not infected (what is not 100% sure!).
But this is not a prevention! And it is better to prevent, than to cure..
And more - having two or three (or sometimes even more) tools that detect
malware is even better than having only one. Why? Because they use
different detection methods, have different signatures of malware, detect
sometimes different types of malware - so the chance to eliminate this
unwanted "additions to the system" grows in such case.
Besides - search the Internet for the articles about the Ad-Aware and
delisting - you will know then why it's better to have few anti-malware
applications..