What are your thought on SuperAntiSpyware? I have used it in the past and all it found were tracking cookies and i am sure CCleaner does a good enough job at getting rid of those.
But, i am considering re-installation of SAS. Worth doing or not would you say?
You can use Super. It’s a good software.
But, why are you worried about cookies? Nothing to worry about…
No, imo.
Why no?
Because it would be quite redundant with avast. MBAM is preferred to SAS for most users.
Well I have both MBAM Pro and SAS Pro in different combinations on two systems. I honestly never expect either of them to find anything on my systems and the same goes for avast, which doesn’t mean they aren’t good, just that your system happens to be clean. Or of course it could have missed something which all security applications are prone to, just visit the viruses and worms forum.
I have had SAS Pro for some considerable time now, before MBAM even came out after having the name changed from RogueRemover. I had the free version of SAS for some time and liked it and paid for a lifetime license. Now I got a very good deal on MBAM Pro lifetime license and couldn’t resist. So I now have MBAM Pro with resident protection enabled and SAS Pro as on-demand only now on this system
So I used to use SAS Pro as resident and MBAM free as on-demand on this XP Pro system. On my win7 netbook I have MBAM Pro as resident and never got round to installing SAS free as on-demand, as I mentioned I don’t expect any of my security applications to find anything.
Both programs have slightly different feature sets and I feel the SAS Repair function is a valuable tool, over and above any malware detections. The fact that most of the repairs are generally because some malware tried to disable certain windows functions to make life harder for you to remove them.
I use SAS Free and MBAM Free. Neither has detected any thing in a long while,
but that doesn’t mean they wont find something avast! may miss tomorrow. 
And I have the Pro Lifetime version of both of these. Never find anything BUT MBAM Pro does warn me to not try to go to certain sites which it considers a problem.
I had the free versions of both for years, but finally dumped SAS a couple of weeks ago. Aside from its duplicating much of MBAM’s protection, its def updates are outrageously slow (I’ve seen as long as a 8-10 minute gap between completing the longer first portion and starting the relatively quick second portion. Plus it’s got a huge database (whitelist, maybe?) which invariably is at the top of the list in terms of no, of fragments when I go to defrag.
MBAM’s no speed demon either for updates, but at least they’ve got the excuse that their defs file is creeping up on 7 megs currently and they’ve been promising for the last couple of years to switch to incremental updates, which should make a big difference. And MBAM “quick” scans, the last couple of versions, are aptly named, typically no more than 2 or 3 minutes on my system as against 9-10 minutes for the equivalent in SAS.
I also changed from SAS to hitman pro few month ago mainly because of the slowness of the scan speed. since than SAS has released a new version, i have not tried it yet. Is the new version fast compered to the previous version?
The latest RTW is something like 4.55x. I dumped 4.x a few months ago. Buggy, slow etc.
I replaced it with 5.0B which is now at 5.0.1106.
The scanning is a lot faster
Its stable though but it is a Beta so there are still some things to be cleaned up but overall it is a lot more stable and less buggy then the version of 4.x that I last used.
Their are usually several Malware definition updates a day Mon - Sat. Sunday maybe one
They now offer a lifetime license.
On my desktops:
Critical Point Scan takes under one minute
Quick Scan takes under two minutes
Don’t remember how long a Complete scan takes because I have it running while I am asleep and haven’t had to check the scan results since I have received no warning message from the Complete scan.
I have not tried the Custom scan but once and can’t recall what happened as it was several months ago, but it didn’t crash
There is a very nice scheduling feature for checking updates and running scans. I don’t know how many scans you can set up but I have had had as many as three scheduled scans; i.e. A Critical, Quick and Complete scan set up at one and their was no problem. Like avast! you can also pick the days of the week or run the scheduled scans as well choosing to scan weekly in this case by picking only one day of the week to run the scan. There is no scheduling feature beyond weekly.
I have not noticed any conflicts with AIS.
Is it effective? I can’t say. Its Quarantine area is generally empty but then again so is the AIS virus chest.
It’s okay but MBAM is better in my opinion. I used to have the free version installed but I don’t any more.
I have MBAM and it is much better.
DavidR, I was using both MBAM PRO and SAS Pro and found SAS PRO created conflicts with avast. Have you encountered the same result? I ask this to help inform the newbies.
Well you shouldn’t be using both MBAM Pro and SAS Pro together as that is the same as not using two resident AVs and that in itself could cause conflict, which you might mistake for an issue of conflict with avast.
I never had any conflict with avast when using SAS Pro as resident (mbam free on-demand) and that was the case for many tears.
You don’t say a) what version of SAS Pro you are using or b) what this conflict was ?
It has been too long ago for me to remember and it was on my old Acer (which was fried during a lightning storm). I now use both as on-demand. 