Is spybot as good as norton etc

Question

Is spybot as good as norton etc

Answer 1

All programs are different. Thats why its good to have more then one. one program might find something that the other may not. so i would use both.

Answer 2

Norton takes over your PC and is not better than the free ones like spybot and AVG IMHO

Answer 3

BOTH IDENTICAL IN THAT THEY BOTH SUCK BIG TIME .....  

Answer 4

spybot is much better. Norton is a below average antivirus program. It slows down your computer and costs a good bit of money. Spybot or AVG are much better than norton or Mcafee

Answer 5

Norton does f ck all

Answer 6

No.Nortan Has Got To Be The Best.It Stop's You Getting Any Kind Of Viruses On Your Computer/Laptop :D x

Answer 7

No they're different Spybot is more for the spyware you get..

And Norton is more the virus you get like ''Trojan'' ones..

Answer 8

norton is the best but REALLY slows down your computer and can be really awkward for online gaming

Try AVG its really good and its FREE!!!!!

Answer 9

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

norton is an anti virus

spybot is a spyware remover

im not i huge fan of norton it slows ur pc down n duz nothin much

i wud suggest spybot search n destroy as a must hav a regular scan help alot

Answer 10

Spybot only takes care of spyware. Norton usually comes w/ a firewall antivirus and other very recommended tools like identity theft protection.You should not substitute spybot for norton. hope this helps. good luck!

Answer 11

Spybot is better. So is AVG and Firefox. Norton and McAfee just don't do anything. Great thing is, Spybot and AVG are free.

Answer 12

Norton is an anti-virus tool while spybot is anti-spyware.

Spybot immunize your computer against some spyware.

It modifies Internet Explorer, through official ways,

to block a lot of the bad stuff known to Spybot-S&D.

This is a second layer of protection for IE.

While the Permanent Immunity blocks installers by their ActiveX ID,

this one blocks anything that should come through by different aspects.

Spybot Resident a tool of Spybot which check permanently running application to protect your system.

Spybot Resident TeaTimer is a tool of Spybot which perpetually monitors the processes called/initiated.

It immediately detects known malicious processes wanting to start and terminates them giving you some

options how to deal with this process in the future:

You can set TeaTimer to be informed when the process tries to start again automatically kill the process

or generally allow the process to run

There is also an option to delete the file associated with this process.

In addition, TeaTimer detects, when something wants to change some critical registry keys.

TeaTimer can protect you against such changes again giving you an option: You can either Allow or Deny the change.

Spybot host file locking is a tool which lock the hosts file to prevent unauthorise changes.

Locking the hosts file will prevent most hosts hijackers (even unknown) from doing harm;

Locking the IE settings will prevent other users of your computer to change your preferences.

Spybot ActiveX is a tool to display a list of installed ActiveX applications.

It also has a small database integrated that will display a green checkmark

in front of ActiveX applications known as legitimate,

and a red sign in front if applications known as illegitimate

Spybot process list is a tool displays a list of all currently running processes,

including some information about them. It also allows you to kill some processes

Spybot System startup tool lists all programs that are started at Windows startup.

If those items are in the database coming with Spybot-S&D, it will display some more information about them.

It also allows you to disable (and enable) items, as well as delete them, change them or insert new items.

The entries will be displayed in different colours:

Green: legitimate program

Yellow: unknown, unneeded or unambiguous program (e.g. malware programs might use the same file name as legitimate programs)

Red: malicious program



Spybot system internal is a registry cleaner that fix error in windows registry.

Spybot is free.