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Old Nov 15, 2006 | 7:49 pm
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MRKEY
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Originally Posted by ozstamps
Sorry Scott I had not seen your post before adding a quick summary of my specs above.

It is just a new vanilla (yawn ) Dell system with pretty much top end (for them!) RAM and Intel processors, so I had hoped mainline spyware stuff would work OK with it.

So Windows Defender does the job? I tend to assume FREE and almost useless go hand in hand in these areas so and interested to hear this seems useful.

The other thing I have no idea if this new thing does, is remove ad-ware which I gather is different to spyware? I really am not up with all this stuff except to know it is not good.

Sorry for the bog basic questions, but you guys know this stuff backwards, and I do not.

Glen
OZ. Re: ad-ware = Beware! I got rid of ad-ware years ago...The free version of Ad-aware doesn't monitor things as they happen, so after you install it they want you run it occasionally when you have a spare minute - and remember to keep it updated! Creating more junk! Listen to ScottC..ad-ware is really intrusive. Don't even think about it!
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