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Does Norton Antivirus run on your computer with Ad-aware installed?Is Adware virus protection or just a cure?
June 15, 2011
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Sorry, I can’t help you with your problem of Norton not showing up in your Windows Security Center.
But, regarding your AdAware.
1. AdAware does not detect viruses, it only detects adware and spyware.
2. The free version of AdAware does not provide any real-time resident "protection". It is strictly a scanner that attempts to remove malware after you are infected. A "cure". However the paid version of AdAware does provide real-time protection.
3. Your Spybot Search & Destroy does provide some very limited "protection" against a few thousand (out of hundreds of thousands) malicous wedsites when one elects to use it’s Immunize function.
4. There should be no conflict between AdAware, Spybot S&D and Norton. That combination is used by millions.
Hope this helps.
Ad Adware will find cookies that Norton doesn’t.
Information About Cookies on Microsoft.com
http://www.microsoft.com/info/cookies.mspx
HTTP cookies, sometimes known as web cookies or just cookies, are parcels of text sent by a server to a web browser and then sent back unchanged by the browser each time it accesses that server. HTTP cookies are used for authenticating, tracking, and maintaining specific information about users, such as site preferences or the contents of their electronic shopping carts. The term "cookie" is derived from "magic cookie," a well-known concept in UNIX computing which inspired both the idea and the name of HTTP cookies.
Cookies have been of concern for Internet privacy, since they can be used for tracking browsing behavior. As a result, they have been subject to legislation in various countries such as the United States and in the European Union. Cookies have also been criticized because the identification of users they provide is not always accurate and because they could potentially be a target of network attackers. Some alternatives to cookies exist, but each has its own uses, advantages and drawbacks.
Cookies are also subject to a number of misconceptions, mostly based on the erroneous notion that they are computer programs. In fact, cookies are simple pieces of data unable to perform any operation by themselves. In particular, they are neither spyware nor viruses, despite the detection of cookies from certain sites by many anti-spyware products.
Most modern browsers allow users to decide whether to accept cookies, but rejection makes some websites unusable. For example, shopping baskets implemented using cookies do not work if cookies are rejected.
Nah, you can go to settings and choose to monitor your own virus protection. Adaware is both protection and a cure.
Adaware is a spyware scanning tool and has nothing to do with antivirus tools, Two different kinds of tools, actually is good to have both,
SG