[quote I don't think you really need it.
If you got free ad-aware, spybot, spywareblaster, spywareguard, avast, free firewall... and your surf habits are clean, well, let's live. After all, we all need to format and start all over again in life sometimes
Well, not exactly true.. I can still show you sites that will totally infect your system, even using the above. Adaware and Spybot are just too lightduty for me. Spysweeper and Pest Patrol are have far deeper detection levels. SpywareGuard and Spywareblaster are nice, but do little to protection you from some IE holes
I ran a little test before I left town on a disk containing 528 trojans or malicious spyware, and the results were quite interesting... Pest Patrol clearly considers Trojans spyware and otherwise malicious adwares and junk, and considering it has about 125,000 definitions its no wonder. So the line is blurry with that product, but I respect its detection levels nonetheless, and it makes a very incredible backup to an AV product. Spysweeper is strong as well, and has often found things PP has missed. I used to be a believer of the Spybot/Adaware combo, then one night I installed the Spysweeper demo on my machine, and it found 198 traces that combo missed.. LMAO.
Pest Patrol
410 Infected Files Found
TDS-3 (Trojan Defense System)
15:53:18 [Full Scan] Scanned 528 files: 233 alarms in 12.375 seconds
Trojan Hunter Filescan Complete
No Infections found on Drive
Ewido Security Suite
221 Infected Files Found!