This review is meant to settle the score between Ad-aware and Spybot and determine which of the two can detect and remove spyware and adware effectively. I installed 28 applications which are known to contain spyware or adware on a virtual drive using VMWare Workstation. Check out a small piece of the review...
For the first scan, Ad-aware detected 12 processes, 311 registry keys, 55 registry values, 344 files and 21 folders for a total of 743 malicious objects. Ad-aware was not able to quarantine all of the objects reported because many of them were currently in use. A second scan was necessary; after restarting the computer Ad-Aware detected and quarantined 13 objects. To verify that Ad Aware had finished detecting all objects, I ran a scan a third time, and Ad-aware confirmed zero objects infected. I proceeded in deleting all files that were quarantined so that Spybot S&D would not detect these later on. Checking to see if I noticed any difference on my computer, Ad-aware had restored my IE homepage, and removed many of the toolbars that once crowded Internet Explorer.
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