Spyware Terminator

[Macintosh]

Is spyware termintor better than Superantispyware and Spybot Search and destroy Spywareterminator also has antivirus protection in it Has anyone tried it

[Jtaylor83]

It's ClamAV and no I wouldn't try it because two anti-viruses can conflict.

[Tarq57]

Been a long time since I tried it. It was pretty good, at the time of its release possibly the only free resident antispy.
In some ways superior to Spybot, in many ways probably not superior to Superantispyware.
One of those ways was what I perceived to be the developers prioritizing of the toolbar marketing at the expense of the program quality.
(The toolbar is Crawler's, installed under the marketing guise of "Web Security Guard", a kind of browser add-on a bit like SiteAdvisor. Nothing wrong with it if you don't mind toolbars, however.)
I uninstalled it some time ago. There have been a number of updates since then. If the configuration hasn't changed, installation of the Clam AV and WSG components is totally optional. I've used the Clam in the past, didn't conflict with Avast. But IMO it's not necessary, and I don't recommend it (the integrated AV, that is.)
Try the program out. Be advised that if you activate the HIPS feature, you'll need to learn how to answer popups about the innermost workings of Windows. Not a bad learning to undertake.
The forum is helpful. There are quite a few experienced and knowledgeable users, some hangers on, and a few wannabes.

[Happy-Dude]

I actually recommend this program, but I found it's HIPS and Realtime protection annoying (mostly because of the HIPS though, afterwards, it should be alright). I just didn't spend my time with that.

When you install it, and if you want a "third" layer, check ClamAV BUT DISABLE IT'S REALTIME !! You can run the Spyware Terminator realtime (if you don't have something like Windows Defender), but if your running Avast!, definately disable ClamAV and use it ONLY for ON-DEMAND scanning.

Well, that's my two cents. I recommend this program, but you gotta know what you are doing.

P.S.- Remember to check out with you want their Web Security somethings ... It's a toolbar for the browser, and I don't like toolbars ...

[Lisandro]

The best? Hmmm... will be an endless story...
There are pros and cons on any of them. I have the three ones as on-demand scanners (not resident).
ClamAV won't conflict in Vista (not sure in XP). But I think you will only decrease your performance and, possibly, has conflicts. The ClamAV detection rate is not good.

[Justin_22]

Just reading through this post when you said
"The ClamAV detection rate is not good." Tech?  I would have to agree I believe the last time
I heard anything on ClamAV's detection rate is that it missed like 80% of all the malware thrown at it thats really poor I would say.

[Lisandro]

Just reading through this post when you said
"The ClamAV detection rate is not good." Tech?  I would have to agree I believe the last time
I heard anything on ClamAV's detection rate is that it missed like 80% of all the malware thrown at it thats really poor I would say.

If we want to be fair, yes, it's very poor detection rate.

[Justin_22]

Just trying to be completely truthful tech, no offense

[ilker]

Spyware Terminator is really useful software and it is getting better day by day. I think superantispyware is better than S.T in scanning. My pc was infected 3 days ago, i was scanning with S.T and it found only 3 trojans and it couldnt delete them . But Superantispyware found 5 trojans and 3 adwares and after the scan it cleaned successfully. S.T has another problem, for example if an antivirus finds something in the real time protection , it blocks the threat and then deletes. But in S.T it only blocks the attacks. You have to perform a full scan to delete the source of attack. In short i advice this program , it works nice without problem and the S.T team is working hard to make their software better . 

[Macintosh]

Spyware Terminator is really useful software and it is getting better day by day. I think superantispyware is better than S.T in scanning. My pc was infected 3 days ago, i was scanning with S.T and it found only 3 trojans and it couldnt delete them . But Superantispyware found 5 trojans and 3 adwares and after the scan it cleaned successfully. S.T has another problem, for example if an antivirus finds something in the real time protection , it blocks the threat and then deletes. But in S.T it only blocks the attacks. You have to perform a full scan to delete the source of attack. In short i advice this program , it works nice without problem and the S.T team is working hard to make their software better . 

Thanks for giving information about spywareterminator I am going to try it Superantispyware asks to register to get real time protection and I believe there is no reason for it to autostart with windows if it does not provide realtime protection

[Lisandro]

I believe there is no reason for it to autostart with windows if it does not provide realtime protection

There isn't... just set it so into SuperAntispyware settings.

[Macintosh]

I have made that setting I use Spybot search and destroy for real time protection But I have heard it is heavy on system resources is it true

[Lisandro]

I have made that setting I use Spybot search and destroy for real time protection But I have heard it is heavy on system resources is it true

I don't think Spybot is hard on resources usage.
But I think it's not a good resident (on-access) program.
I use it only on-demand.

[Macintosh]

Thanks for your information

[Lisandro]

Thanks for your information

Also check: http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=37300.0