Re: Who Knows ? - Carol
Edited by EllieMay on 1/8/2016, 4:42 pm
I use Norton but I'm comparing using Windows Defender against ANY dedicated software where catching scumware is the main reason for their existence. You are using free Spybot, it is a light version of their paid versions which are more extensive. If they frequently notify you of updates to the program (newer things that have been discovered) than it does it's job. If they don't, they are only addressing known malware from the time it was last issued and the software on your computer is only protecting you from older problems and will not catch new things. I have Norton 360 which checks for updates daily and applies them. Some programs are better than others at detecting specific things and I haven't found one yet that gets them all so it doesn't hurt to have more than one for specific clean-ups of one problem or another to run sporatically on its own.
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