Pest Patrol...how many of you use it?

Just noticed Pest Patrol in the protect yourself sticky, wondered how many of you guys have it and use it?
It's obviously limited in terms of what it can do with the free version and the full $40 version, anyone know what those differences are?
Also how does it compare with Ewido in terms of finding keystroke loggers and other malware type stuff...thanks.

 

Personally never have used PP but I have used Ewido and honestly I think Spy Sweeper is the best as in protection and removal of malware and some trojans if your going to buy something. Ewido does a great job of removing malware but I havnt kept it long enough to see how it protects, I use Spy Sweeper for this. I have heard many complaints about PP as in advertising the removal of a certain pest, but after it was purchased it didnt completely remove the advertised pest, for this I never gave it a chance. Other's may have had better luck with it!

If your asking if Ewido is better than PP, I would have to say yes because from what I have seen out of Ewido, it's pretty damn good! Like I said, I personally think Spy Sweeper is the best program for protection from malware.

Hope this helps!

 

thanks bj...btw you have some serious issues with minigolf gameslol

 

IIRC, a couple of years ago Pest Patrol temorarily removed any detection of Claria (Gator) items due to possible legal action. They've since restored the detection, but it would make me wonder how vulnerable they might to be a loud lawyer .


This comparison table tells me Pest Patrol lacks a bit in prevention/protection and diagnostic, at least when compared to Spybot, which doesn't charge for their program.

And Spy Sweeper does indeed seem to have more features covered.

http://spywarewarrior.com/asw-features.htm#table

 

star wicked link thanks.
looks as though spybot, ms' antispyware and counterspy alone are good together...pest patrol does look like it lacks a lot...although CA's anti-virus is great i love it...too bad about their spyware stuff

 

one thing i wanted to add was ewido, seems to be a good program as well, it removes any cookies (which it just caught right now) but spybot didn't...does spybot catch cookies or not? (anyone know off the top of their heads?)
or is it part of their immunize feature?
star, not sure if you heard about ms also taking gator(claria) on their spyware program because they were thinking about merging/purchasing Claria
http://techdirt.com/articles/20050630/0333234_F.shtml
makes you wonder, and think, how much does MS really give a ....?!

 

LOL! I love playing some minigolf but I really enjoy a real game when I have time for it.

 

well i don't recall setting spybot to allow or not allow any cookies...so...dunno about that in my case

Well if you do, i want full credit and 1years worth of free spy sweeper on mg's behalf

btw, i ran ewido, which caught 2 popcap cookies on a friends computer today, then before deleting them, ran counterspy and it didn't catch them.
so i'd have to throw my vote to ewido for now anyways

 

3 minigolf game championships and "when i have time for it"...something doesn't seem right in this picture