Firefox and Spy Sweeper

[krosenstein]

I'm using Firefox, and it (or perhaps how I'm using it) seems to be fairly impervious to spybots and other sorts of malware. If this is correct, is there any real need to spend the $$$ on something like Spy Sweeper. I notice that it seems more geared to IE.

[Leon]

If you use Ad-Aware and Microsoft Antispyware w/Firefox you will probably be o.k.....

[slagmi]

There's no question you're safer with Firefox but it does not negate the need for protection as IE is tightly 'wrapped' into Windows. Iexplore.exe and Explorer.exe are, um, 'closely related'.

As illustration, try this:
Open My Computer or Windows Explorer, and in the address bar at the top, type forum.thinkpads.com then press Enter.
Hmmm...

[Leon]

agreed, but if you never use those "tightly integrated" pieces to go to web pages, you mitigate your exposure greatly. Protection is needed under any circumstances, but you can be less paranoid if you use Firefox....

[selvan777]

I run Ad-aware, Spybot S&D, PeerGuardian and PestPatrol.

When using IE, they detected much malware, but since I switched to FF, none have been detected.

Based on that, I wouldn't bother purchasing Spy Sweeper or any other, especially since there's such good ones still available for free.

[mattfromomaha]

I'm content with Adaware and Spybot, and they both are free.

I noticed since going from IE to Firefox that I now get about 2% of the spyware that I used to.

[nikemen]

I gotta say, I love spysweeper, and have used it about a year. I use adaware and USED to use spybot, haven't gotten back in since the early problems with v 1.3?

One can usually find Spysweeper for about 10$, sometimes instant rebate, sometimes after. I put it on my parents, nephew and my computer, works fine.

I would definitly recommend to anyone looking for a healthy spyware program.

[byron]

adaware and pestpatrol users may want to rethink their choice of spyware prevention. i love webroot spysweeper enterprise.

http://www.spywareinfo.com/articles/spy ... ropped.php

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/60311