Sorry, one final question....
Dear peku,
I feel guilty to ask you again as I know you're so busy, so please do tell me to raise these questions in the Spybot S&D forum if you so wish(no problem I promise.....)
May I ask one more thing ?
You said before :- "it is not a good idea to run more than one real-time anti-spyware shield. Using real-time protection from two or more anti-spyware applications may cause conflicts."
To be clear, is Spybot S&D real time protection ? I see it has Resident "SDHelper" and Resident "TeaTimer".
Why I ask is that my friend wants spyware doctor('s "On Guard" protection) to be running(in my view not so great) and thinks this means therefore that he
a) can't have Spybot S&D running in the background.
b) doesn't need to use the immunization feature on Spybot S&D if he uses it on Spyware Doctor.
Is it necessary to have Spyware Doctor running if Spybot S&D is running in the background (or vice versa) ?
I also notice the "immunization" function is a subset of real time protection for both applications ?
Surely this doesn't mean though that if the immunization is performed with Spyware Doctor that there is no need to immunize using Spybot S&D ?
When you say "may cause conflicts", do you mean similar to the problem we had before when Spyware Doctor got it wrong and flagged the trojan ?
Or do you mean if 2 real time protection apps are running then it may cause threats to be missed or not fixed/protected against ?
Finally, do different real time protection functions guard against different threats ? Surely they can't work in exactly the same way and both will miss things the other doesn't ?
I wondered if having both running might give more protection, and even if it did raise conflicts, then he could manually override them ?
Or is this totally wrong ? :fear:
Personally I would always go with Spybot S&D and ditch Spyware Doctor but wondered if it is safe and beneficial to have them both running at the same time.....
Many thanks again peku, much appreciated.
mariner77.