May I add a question to debi's ? Should one run these programs in safe mode or regular ? I was once told (back when I had a computer with Windows 98 on it) to run the defragmenter in safe mode because it was constantly restarting; I was getting the message "contents of drive have changed." I've been doing that way ever since, but I don't know if I really need to or if any of the AV or anti-spyware/adware programs should be run that way. Thanks ! Scott

Mikie, I am quite sure they will fix your repoerted concern as Safer Networking Limited has historically been very responsible in fixing bugs. Howevr, there timeliness can cause some frustration. SNL knew about the slow starting as I referred to earlier. In fact, on their homepage where they announce v1.5.2 they apologize for it. It just took them quite a while to resolve the concern. Rita, Please rethink your position on CCleaner. It's fast and user friendly. Just use it with its default settings. The only people I hear having concerns are those who tinker with the original configuration. It is quite similar to the old Win 98 compatible CleanUp. If you do use the registry feature, it offers an options of saving anything a user delets. DA

I just installed Spybot with the download file spybotsd160.exe. When Spybot loads, I see the following: -- Slugmeter labeled "Loading Spybot" -- "Legal stuff" message box: "If you remove advertisement robots with this program, you may not be allowed..." -- "Confirm" message box: "Spybot - Search & Destroy has detected that you have the following products installed: Lavasoft AdAware. This may cause incompatibilites; for more information, click Yes to visit our website, Ignore to no longer show this warning, or just Cancel." Here's the text from the website: "Compatibility: If you have the AdAware option to scan inside archives enabled, AdAware may find files in the Spybot-S&D folder. Spybot-S&D does not contain any spyware, but it creates backups of everything you fix (until you remove those backups from the Recovery list), and AdAware complains about these backups. You can safely ignore these backups found by AdAware." Here's the website link from the last message box: http://www.safer-networking.org/en/compatibility/adaware.html. Obviously it doesn't address your compatibility issue directly, but it might be a place to start. Good luck!

What you are referring to here is just a restore capablity that is available following a scan and item(s) removal. Go ahead and delete S&B and do a clean install. Be sure to do a search using the word Spybot for any orphan files so you can remove them before the ionstall. I personally do a reboot between the uninstall and the reinstall of any applications configured to the O/S. Some applications require this on there own others don't. It doesn't hurt anything. I absolutely agree with Owbist, a clean install is superior to an overwrite. DA