which is better spyware doctor or spybo S&D with avast home 4.8?

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1

i want to know if which is the better free anti-spyware in this two:

*spyware doctor starter edition 5.5
*spybot S&D

plss help me

2

It’s hard to tell “who’s the best” - tastes differ. As for me, I’m using Spybot S&D for more than a year and have never had “Spybot-Avast” conflicts.

3

It’s hard to know. SD Starter reportedly has fewer malware definitions than the full version but is still likely to be more effective than Spybot S&D Re: conflicts with avast! 4.8, you could ask on the SD forum.

4

Generally SpywareDoctor on-demand has a greater detection rate than Spybot.
But Spybot allows immunization.
Why don’t you keep both?

5

But immunization, I think, will fill your hosts file with some 18000+ entries and thus will practically negate hosts main purpose - speeding up the web browsing…

6

I didn’t notice a slow down… I’ll remove the hosts entries and see what I get.

7

but when i install spybot,my pc gets slow on its start-up! :cry:

how can i improve my start-up speed?

8

Really? I can’t see a relationship unless you’ve scheduled Spybot to on-demand scanning at boot time…