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Antispyware Shootout

Posted by Hemos on from the battle-royale dept.

An anonymous reader writes "ZDNet has published a review of 8 antispyware products from Computer Associates, Lavasoft, McAfee, Microsoft, PC Tools, Symantec, Trend Micro and Webroot. Check out the Editor's Choice. Interesting winner ...." I've used quite a number of these scanners on and on & off basis, and I think the reality is that you if you are truly to clean a machine out, you're going to need to use like three - five of these. Each of them captures a certain area, but none are the One Ring or anything.

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  1. Enough power by VincenzoRomano · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I wonder whether there will remain enough CPU power to run the applications once I will install three to four ofthose scanners.
    Maybe some major fix in the operating system (as well as in the users' brain) could help a little bit.

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  2. Immunity of Linux/Mac NOT due to low marketshare. by massysett · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Every time a story like this comes out, someone says "just switch to Linux or Mac. They don't have spyware." Then someone writes back "oh, that's just because they don't have marketshare."

    Hogwash. In Linux or Mac, you can accomplish all daily tasks as a user with limited privileges. This is often impossible in Windows. In Linux, you can easily choose to install software only from trusted sources (e.g. your distro's package repositories.) It comes with all needed apps. This is not true in Windows.

    Need more proof? See this from the Register.

    It's completely ignorant to say that Linux and Mac would be just as bad if they had more marketshare.

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