norton 360 - do I need Ad-Aware protection as well?

tom_and_barbara_good

I don't want to spend money if I don't have to so do I need to pay for Ad-Aware as well? I don't do anything risky with the PC and wouldn't dream of clicking anything that I don't recognise as being safe.

thomas01155

If you wanted another realtime scanner you could try threatfire http://www.threatfire.com/ i doubt you need another anti spyware realtime scanner as Norton claims to block spyware. But i would use http://www.filehippo.com/download_spywareblaster/ and http://www.filehippo.com/download_spybot_search_destroy/ to immunize.

Marty_J

Yes, if you're running Windows, you need all the protection you can get. One anti-spyware app will often pick something up another misses.

You don't have to pay for Ad-Aware though, there's a free version available:

http://lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php

SpyBot is also worth having too:

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/home/index.html

asininity

Norton, ouch!

And try AVG anti-spyware, if you want a free real time scanner Spyware Terminator is good and free, I think one of the only real time scanners that is free.