As there isn’t much difference between avast! home Edition & avast! Pro, mbam should work just fine. There isn’t any conflict with mbam and avast! Home Edition.
I hope so as it is on my system ;D no seriously it is fine.
Having a look at your list where do you find the time to do anything else other than keep those applications up to date, only joking a little ;D but you could do some paring down.
I would get rid of AVG-AS as a it is no longer supported and really had slipped down the rankings of anti-spyware and you have SAS and MBAM.
I see no benefit in having a-squared if you don’t have its resident protection, snap on adaware second division or lower in the anti-spyware league.
Spybot, reasonable but when you have more anti-spyware applications than you can shake a stick at, reasonable doesn’t cut it.
Any anti-rootkit tool has to be a targeted use e.g. if you suspect something going on behind the scenes and then you would download the latest version.
There is certainly such a thing as having too much of a good thing even when they are on-demand scanners, I have avast, SAS, MBAM as my main anti-virus/spyware applications, but I have paid for the Pro version of SAS as a resident.
MBAM with activated resident protection module and Avast 4.8. Pro working great together for me.
No problems until now. @Avastfan1 i have to agree DavidR fewer is more and in my opinion Adaware is worth nothing (messed up my notebook in the past)
I don’t want to be unfair with MBAM sales… but if I were you, I’ll keep it only on demand, like the others that you have.
Oh, I don’t see a reason to keep as much programs as you have. Drivers and services will be running in background (even only on demand)… I’ll drop a-squared, AVG antispyware, Lavasoft and even Spybot.
Well technically you don’t have to use it at all as if you have windows update set to check, notify, but don’t download, you control which updates get installed and you don’t have to visit windows update so don’t have to use IE.
There is nothing to stop you leaving S&D for a while, scan with the others, see what they find but don’t take any action and then run S&D to see if it finds anything the others did or missed.
Without taking anything away from MBAM and SAS — which I agree are the two best anti-malware on-demand scanners currently available — I’d like to offer an alternative consideration of Spybot’s value:
While I’m not especially keen on it as a scanner, nevertheless, I believe SpyBot’s other features DO have something to offer:
first and foremost, it’s IMMUNIZATION (including HOSTS files), which can be used in addition to SpywareBlaster’s. Such “passive” protection takes up little (if any) resources, and offers an additional level of up-front prevention.
Personally, I’m a fan of TEATIMER (Spybot’s resident). Since this mainly monitors for registry changes, it can be used in addition to just about any other anti-malware program, without causing conflicts. The only caveat I would note here is that TeaTimer’s prompts (to allow or prevent various changes) require that the user be capable of making such decisions. In other words, for those who don’t feel confident so doing, it would be preferable NOT to run TeaTimer, rather than to risk running it improperly.
Finally, I also use SpyBot’s SDHelper BHO (Bad download blocker) although I have no definitive way of determining just how useful it has been.
