using two on guard protections

[tigertheboo]

Spydoc 4 is still my main anti-spyware, though I scan with 3 other such programs manually. (Will update to 5.0 after a vacation and a few more builds are up). Anyway on a manual scan, avg anti-spyware caught a downloader and eliminated it. Spydoc missed it. I keep on-guard on at all times, but leave the resident shield off on avg as to minmize conflicts. Any advice on whether or not I can turn its resident shield on while leaving on-guard on. On the one hand, that could set up security conflicts, but on the other it probably would have blocked the nasty that was caught in a manual scan

thanks for any advice


And, how the heck does a very cautious safe internet user even pick up such junk in the first place

[vecchio]

i use avg antispy AND SD without conflicts..but just an advice.... in my opinion no other product is better than SD

[tom.tdw]

i'm afraid rubbish is all over the internet

even usually safe sites (including microsofts) can have bad content put on via ads

that's why site guard helps as it can block whole websites or just bad components of good ones

i like to use sandboxing programs (sandboxie to be precise), site guard (the unfinished addon version for sd 5), pctools firewall, spyware doctors cookie guard and firefox (with noscript) to keep that junk off my pc;)

and just incase i keep hijackthis and a few online scanners at the ready

i agree with vecchio, spyware doctor is the best antispyware program available and can form a key part of your pc's defences

[notE]

i'm afraid rubbish is all over the internet

even usually safe sites (including microsofts) can have bad content put on via ads

that's why site guard helps as it can block whole websites or just bad components of good ones

i like to use sandboxing programs (sandboxie to be precise), site guard (the unfinished addon version for sd 5), pctools firewall, spyware doctors cookie guard and firefox (with noscript) to keep that junk off my pc;)

and just incase i keep hijackthis and a few online scanners at the ready

i agree with vecchio, spyware doctor is the best antispyware program available and can form a key part of your pc's defences Tom you have a very intresting antispyware setup. I would like to see a security suite combine antispyware and anti virus with sandboxing.