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McAfee Anti-Spyware Question

Jun 7, 2005 1:10AM PDT

I recently purchased the eMachines T6212, which came with McAfee Anti-Spyware preloaded. My complimentary 30 day trial is about to end, and I'm wondering whether to pay the $24.99 to continue for another 12 months, or go with something like Ad-Aware or SpyBot.

Do any of you have any suggestions or recommendations? Your input is greatly appreciated.

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I'd recommend...
Jun 7, 2005 7:50AM PDT

Downloading Microsoft Antispyware as your primary protection...even in BETA it is an excellent program. It's fast, efficient, has real-time protection, and best of all, it's free. Personally it's found everything AdAware and Spybot have, and more. The 1.0 release available this summer will also be free...a first from Microsoft!

I'd also download Adaware and Spybot (free versions) for additional protection...never know when one may miss something that the other can catch. Adaware doesn't have a real-time scanner (unless you buy it), and usually doesn't catch as much as its competitors. Spybot is great, but produces a few false-positives, and is a little more complicated than most spyware scanners.

Compared to McAfee, these products are just as efficient, a lot easier on system resources, and, not to mention, a little cheaper too. Wink

Hope this helps,
John

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Will Do...
Jun 8, 2005 12:37AM PDT

John,

Sounds great. Thanks for the advice.

Should I just remove McAfee through the "Add/Remove Programs" option in the Control Panel?