Community poll forum: 2/08/05 My favorite antidote for spyware is:

I use spy hunter and I use it often. It seldom locates more the 10 or 12 spyware. I just donwloded ms anitspyware and it found 267 spyware.

Testing.

We had been experiencing so much system lag on all our machines from conflict's from Lavasoft's Adaware, that I disabled it to try Pestpatrol, but soon had the same lag & conflicts.

We use these machines for business, in legal settings where seamless access to research, documents & data are crucial to our image, any disfunction, spyware & adware is just unacceptable.

Decided to try Spybot Search & Destroy with fantastic results. No lag on any of the laptops or PC's after 8 months of daily use. I finally uninstalled Adaware & Pestpatrol completley.
I sent Spybot a payment in gratitude, the peace of mind from Spybot has been priceless.

Info on the equipment we use:

The 2 desktop PC's:
Emachine T3085, with a 2.17GHZ,AMD Athlon 3000+processor 512 MB RAM,
Dell Dimension 8250 with an Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.40GHz 512 MB RAM.

The 3 Laptop's:
Fujitsu LifeBook P(Crusoe Processor),
Dell Inspiron 600 M with 384 MB RAM, XP Professional, Dell Inspiron 8600 Pentium M, 512 MB RAM, XP Home.

We just purchased a Toshiba Portege 205-810 Tablet for one our analysts, and will download the Spybot Search & Destroy before deploying.