I have Adware at work, and Spybot at home. I had no choice in the Adware at work--network administrator's idea. The IT people for my cable internet highly recommened Spybot, and CNET gives it good reviews. So far, Spybot has been a better experience for me than Adware. Spybot seems to work much faster than Adware, and doesn't tie up/slow down my computer as much when it's running, and it snags updates much faster than Adware as well.