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by brendabussell

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am trying to steer a friend in right direction as to security measures, etc for her windows xp-i have windows, but not xp. Can you tell me your experiences with the freeware spybot search destroy? have read some negative reviews on zdnet such as it crashes windows xp, installs a trojan, steals files,etc.

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by thechas

In the Q&A forum here, there are a number of users that sing the praises of Spybot over AdAware.
A few suggest using both.

I myself am still using AdAware, and have no problems with it on both XP and W98.
(www.lavasoft.de)

While your at it, forget about XP's built-in firewall.
At a minimum, switch to Zone Alarm.
(www.zonelabs.com)

Chas

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