Spybot is a little too intrusive, IMO. Whenever you install and uninstall anything, the registry gets written to. Spybot will alert you to OK registry changes as well as the bad registry changes made by adware and spyware.
You should never run more than one AV program at once. That includes the active AV agents - the ones that run as services and start up with your PC and keep working in the background. In other words, it is not even a good idea to have two AV programs
installed at the same time.
AVG is a good free AV program. That and the free version of AdAware should keep you virus-free and relatively malware free. Many AV programs will consider other AV programs as viruses. They do not play nice on the same PC.
I think what I'm saying is you can have too many agents "cleaning" your PC.
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BTW I use Zone Alarm for everything, Firewall, AV, Adware and Spyware.
I used to use Norton but found it too cumbersome and found it missed some viuses.
If you ever think your AV program, whatever it is, might be missing something, the only thing you can do is to try another. But since you do NOT want to install another program, you can try
TrendMicro free online scanning.
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