Who has a reliable/effective spyware program they use?

[Stinky The Clown]

I have been running Norton 360 on all machine son our network. All are infected to a greater or lesser degree with spyware (so sez my tech, who I trust).

Anyone have anything they know to be effective on WinXP machines?

[Duer 157099]

1. I think the concensus is to use a variety

I'm currently dealing with deciding which combo to use. I don't think I've ever had an infection, and I use Comodo Firewall (has spyware defense built in), Spybot Search & Destroy, AdAware, Comodo BOClean, and AVG.

Comodo has an active forum community, and this link might be useful to you:

http://forums.comodo.com/feedbackcommentsannouncementsnews/free_spywarevirusmalware_cleaning_by_comodo_experts_yep_free-t22460.0.html

[hobbit709]

2. I use Spybot S&D, Spywareblaster

in conjunction with Advanced Windows Care, AVG and Ghostwall.

[Stinky The Clown]

3. My tech suggested either NOD32 or KASPERSKY AV

He said to use one of them, but not both.

And he took Norton off my machine.

[hobbit709]

5. Those are both antivirus apps

If you have more than one AV on a system, they fight each other and don't work right. You can run more than one antispyware app at a time though.

[wildbilln864]

4. Spybot: Search and Destroy

With Tiny Watcher and AVG antivirus.
no problems so far.