I waited til Windows Defender came out of beta (and MS sure took a long time to work out the bugs before releasing it) before I installed it. It has given me no problems ever since. No false positives. It is the only anti-spyware I keep resident (running all the time in the background). I found it easy to install and configure, with a user-friendly interface. And I haven't seen many posts in various forums complaining of problems with it.
I concur with the above reviewer's conclusion:
"Windows Defender Beta 2 combines the best-of-breed spyware detection and removal functionality from the old Giant Antispyware product and turns it into a stellar application that all Windows users should immediately download and install. Lightweight, effective, and unobtrusive, Windows Defender is anti-spyware done right, and I still consider this to be the best anti-spyware solution on the market. Highly recommended."
As far as Lavasoft's Ad-AwareSE personal goes, it also comes well-recommended. Unless you purchase the paid version, it provides no real-time protection, but is still a good on-demand scanner.
Windows Defender seems to work very well. Important for me, it is compatible with McAfee. I also run SpySweeper , but only to block cookies and some ads real time. Seeps by Windows Defender, SpySweeper amd Spyware Doctor are always negative. Spyware Doctor used to be a good program, but I find it now slows my computer, prevents many pages from loading, and prolongs bootup unacceptably. I only scan with it occasionally. The tech support for it is very polite but useless.
joe53
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December 6th, 2006 01:00
http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/windefender_beta2.asp
"Windows Defender Beta 2 combines the best-of-breed spyware detection and removal functionality from the old Giant Antispyware product and turns it into a stellar application that all Windows users should immediately download and install. Lightweight, effective, and unobtrusive, Windows Defender is anti-spyware done right, and I still consider this to be the best anti-spyware solution on the market. Highly recommended."
helmecj01
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December 6th, 2006 14:00
I think it is good and free to download
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=435bfce7-da2b-4a6a-afa4-f7f14e605a0d&displaylang=en
Dr. Lawrence Ho
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December 7th, 2006 17:00