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Originally Posted by Wox
Well, yeah everyone has their own opinion, and sure you can call that "objective" opinion and a suite of applications.
Although you could call it a security suite, god help the dude who actually chooses it as the main protection.
I agree with Iain. So many products do so much better than ST that you guys will have to go a really long way. Or just give up.
Edit- wow.. you DID go a really long way defending the product. matter of fact, I didn't even read it through. You're much better off spending time improving the product.
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Considering I have to do it quite often, I have become quite efficient at it.
We dont feel that people who use it as their main protection suite are at risk. Enabling HIPS and ClamAV gives users very powerful protection which should prevent infections from ever occuring on the user's machine. And if used properly, Web Security Guard can be a very useful tool in keeping users aware of the websites they visit.
Users who intend to use
only freeware software will probably find that Spyware Terminator is one of their best choices.
- Ad-Aware 2007 free does not offer realtime protection.
- Arovax AntiSpyware does not offer realtime protection.
- A-Squared free does not offer realtime protection.
- AVG AntiSpyware free does not offer realtime protection.
- SpyBot offers nothing more than a very basic realtime protection engine.
- Spyware Doctor starter edition (part of Google Pack) does not offer realtime protection. Yes, threatfire is free while in beta, however I do not know what will happen to it out of beta, and whether it will remain a standalone product or be integrated into Spyware Doctor.
- SuperAntiSpyware free does not offer realtime protection.
- Windows Defender offers very basic realtime protection.
I am not sure of many other quality, dedicated
free antispyware software titles which I can add to this list above.
People who are willing to pay for antispyware products might find better products than Spyware Terminator, sure. But in the freeware market I think we have one of the better products out there.