SAS or A-Sqaured?

I used to use Adaware on my xp desktop years ago, and that used to be the best back then. Now it blows. I currently have NO spyware removal programs besides Windows Defender on my vista laptop...but every time I scan, it finds nothing. it doesnt worry me so much, but i just remember scanning with adaware and it would find things ( dont know what, was too long ago). im currently trying a squared on my desktop to see if i like it. its been scanning forever...25 mins so far on smart scan. seems good though...im going to try SuperAntiSpyware after to see which i like before dling it on my vista laptop.

im not looking for real time protection, just something i can open, let it scan and remove spyware. which of the two is best for me? or is there any better free program? thanks.

 

I'd say go with both, but if I had to choose, it'd be SAS. To me it seems like the better program. I also don't like how A squared has a service or two that starts up on boot, but they don't do much. I think they're supposed to make the program open faster or something like that. I'd rather wait a second or two longer to open the program, than have something constantly running and doing nothing.

 

adware would always find those worthless ie logs for me.... I was happy about that since nothing was ever found....

I used two adware and spybot.

Vista is fairly good... I don't know about the new programs out... I've not really thought about them....

 

cant you disable those in msconfig with no problems?

 

Unfortunately, you can't disable it from starting at boot-up. It's not in the start-up menu in msconfig or winpatrol. You might be able to deny the service from starting up by going into services and preventing it from running. However, because A squared uses those programs to open, it's kind of a hassle to go into services whenever you want to open/close the program. Now I haven't tried turning it off for good via services, so the program may work without it.

Edit: Actually, now that I think about it, setting it to manual may work. I'm going to try that.

 

oh, then a squared is out of the question. i dont want extra baggage on my boot time. >
its on my desktop right now though, still scanning....lol. dont care for boot time on that...its on 24/7.
however, my laptop which is always on the go needs to be in fast condition. sas doesnt add anything to startup right? i was looking at screenshots and there is an option to have it run when windows starts, im just going to uncheck it.
also, is SAS real time protection?

 

Yeah, I just unchecked that and nothing from it runs at boot-up.

 

ok i see it is real time protection. how heavy on resources is this?

EDIT:Real time blocking is only for paid version. nice.

 

Yeah, it's technically for real time blocking and I think helping A squared load. However, the free version doesn't have real time protection like you pointed out....

I don't think Ad-aware or Spybot are good anymore.

 

oh i was referring to SAS. great. i cant test SAS on my desktop due to it using the windows installer service...damn you xp sp3...

 

Yeah, SAS Free is a very good on-demand scanner

 

i dled and installed it on laptop. its nice. it didnt find anything which is good.
it did add considerable amount of time on my reboot though...=[
nothing in start up...meh

 

That's odd. When I installed SAS, my boot time was not effected. Did you turn off both start SAS when windows starts and scan on program start-up? I'm guessing you did though.

 

u can try Malwarebytes AntiMalware
wen u say ad-aware found things, it probly just picked up tracker cookies

 

ya i disabled that, as well as checking for updates. i can just do that manually before a scan anyways...idk. ill let it phase out. it'll get back to normal soon, hopefully.
yea thats what i figured. thats all sas found too. my online habits are superb 8]