I started Adaware and Spybot at the same time...

[Guy Fawkes]

Adaware finished in about 2 minutes. Spybot is still going, and has another 6,000 spyware and adware programs to look for. Adaware found a cookie. update later.

[aquart]

1. I have adaware. It does what you say.

But Spybot would simply freeze up. I finally uninstalled it.

[soothsayer]

2. just the opposite for me. Adaware takes YEARS to run, while spybot

cruises thru and WHAM,it's done.

Huh. Go figure.

[johnnie]

3. Did adware find all the crap spybot loads

And the other way around? It would be kind of funny if they canceled each other out and your computer went into a black hole.

[Guy Fawkes]

4. And the answer is in: Spybot found...

the same cookie. But it told me what it was, which is cool...

Oh, and I had to uninstall Adaware before because Spybot always found things adaware missed.

[Old and In the Way]

5. Can anyone explain DSO's?

Are they safe to delete?

[Guy Fawkes]

6. Check everything you don't know about by googling it.

thats the rule of thumb.

[jfxgillis]

7. How bizarre. Yeah. DSO is spyware

But Spybot has glitch so that it finds it but can't delete it.

I had my sister--WHO KNOWS WHAT SHE'S DOING--edit the registry to delete it (don't try this at home, folks).

[SmileyBoy]

8. I have both along with Disk Cleanup, and they work like a charm.

My computer is always spic and span.

[salvorhardin]

9. You need more than a hammer

My toolkit that I take with me when I go on-site for a radical exorcision of Windows includes AdAware, Spybot, CWShredder, the CoolWebSearch mini-removal tool, Hijack This, and AntiVir and Norton WinDoctor.