Will avg remove spyware as well or should I use another free download?
You also need AntiSpyware protection from a different product since there isn’t a uniform definition of “spyware” and an additional level of protection is a good idea. SpyBot SD is an excellent and free tool, and even Microsoft provides Windows Defender for Windows, it is inlcuded inside Vista and free to download for XP and and 2003 server, the links are below respectively: SpyBot SD http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html Windows Defender http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=435BFCE7-DA2B-4A6A-AFA4-F7F14E605A0D&displaylang=en&mg_id=10134 You can install both at the same time, they won’t conflict with one another but both will require their respective amounts of RAM and CPU resources when your computer is in use. It is a bad idea to install two different anti-virus programs such as Symantec and McAfee at the same time since they both consume CPU and RAM resources but also since they often use kernel level shims to inspect processes and can conflict w
