Since the Article still shows that Adaware was able to detect some additional spyware even after Microsoft was run on a system and that even if you use Microsoft’s tool that we should still run Adaware with it. My question is this: Would you run Adaware in it’s full background checking function or just install it and run it as a system scan once every day as a backup to Microsoft’s tool. I am thinking if I run both then it may confuse the two programs trying to do background checks of spyware.
[quote author=“tifosiv122”]I was going to say something about this today. I got it a few days ago and it is without a doubt a great program. Not only does it have a built in hijack alert (browser) but it does find things that Ad-aware and Spybot don’t.
“Though still in beta, Microsoft AntiSpyware does an amazing job at detecting spyware by finding twice as many infected files as Ad-Aware and nearly three times as SpyBot.”
Here is a review of all three:
Just be careful, it’s a bit temprimental…i’d try and leave it alone when it’s scanning, several people I know tried to minimize it and could not get it to maximize again…like they say, it’s still a beta.
Erik
) infecting several machines with spyware. MS by far cleared the most infections, even catching a lot of stuff right after Adaware and Spybot were run. For the most part, he likes it. One sneaky thing we’ve noticd though: it considers you changing your default browser away from IE to be a “browser hijack”. 
