is Spybot good idea, with Vista & Norton 2009 installed ?

[lewis90]

[1.]
Re. these 2 programs:

http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php


Sorry, I don't mean to be a pain in the butt, but, could I just ask,
they would genuinely be useful to someone who has
[a.] Norton Internet Security
[b.] Spybot S&D
[c.] Rootalyzer

?
ie they would be able to detect things that the above 3 wouldn't ?

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[2.]
these 2 programs don't carry any malicious software of their own ?

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Sorry I'm just trying to be sure, it would actually be beneficial to download these. I'm sure they probably would be, as you've recommended them.
I'm just double checking I guess.

[drragostea]

1. Javacool is a prevention software not a detection software.
MalwareBytes detect what they detect, I can't say one is better than the other, they all have their strengths. MBAM can detect something that Norton or Spybot did not detect and vice versa.
2. Nope, I don't see why we would be recommending malicious bundles to users.

[Matt]

Hi lewis90,

ie they would be able to detect things that the above 3 wouldn't ?

Yes. But as drragostea already said, SpywareBlaster is a prevention tool. I can give you an example of my own:

I've desinfected an computer from a friend; he had lots of Malware on it. I used Avira's AntiVir, A-Squared, Spybot and Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware. Some files were still strange in my eyes, so I ran SuperAntiSpyware and SpywareTerminator as well, which found 2 trojans...
Finally, I check with two special tools, but that's not important for you, which found some bad entries, although I've scanned the computer with these 6 named-tools before.

After all that, a clean HijackThis logfile comes out.

Like I said before... I would never trust in only one software-producer... But in the end, it's your decision...

[lewis90]

Thanks guys.
I really appreciate your help.

I'll go ahead and install those.