Out Of My Support

As of this writing it has been almost eight months that I don't use or recommend

• Avast 
• AVG (since a looong time already!)
• Ad-Aware
• Spybot Search & Destroy and
• Spywareblaster

any more.

This is not because they are any "bad" but because there is something better or at least as good out there, Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE). IMHO it is for my customers the better solution and it is MUCH easier to use.

I have talked about this fact since at least October 2009 every time I was on WTKM radio (first Monday of every month at 10:00AM on 104.9 FM).

Since January 15th 2010 I have a long and detailed article about the change on my blog. This article describes detailed step by step instructions for switching to MSE.

In the blog's table of contents you can easily find all my other articles about MSE.

The short of all this is that I can not answer questions about the five programs mentioned above any longer. I simply don't use these programs any more and thus don't know the answers to questions concerning the most current versions.

As usual I welcome comments and suggestions right here in the blog. Thank you in advance.

Click here for a categorized Table Of Contents.
 

Updating Spywareblaster

Javacool Software are the owners/authors of Spywareblaster and their instructions for downloading and updating can be confusing. At least one of the web sites they link to for the download has confused many of my customers as well.

Here is what I recommend to do; I hope this is simpler:

1. Remove all SpywareBlaster icons from your desktop.
2. Download the new version from here. This is only an installer, NOT the actual program!
   
3. Run the installer after the download.
4. It should create a new icon SpywareBlaster on your desktop; move it in the location of the old one.
5. Run the newly installed program.
6. If it works okay delete the downloaded installer program.

That's it.

As usual I welcome comments and suggestions right here in the blog.

Thank you in advance.