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Thanks, guys.  I have installed Boclean and Avast.  I was of course wrong about BOclean and SP2.

Ad-aware I now, agree about.  Of course, not too long ago, Spybot, SpywareBlaster and Ad-aware were a dream trio.

I'll keep Spybot and dump SpywareBlaster, Ad-aware and Norton Utilities.  That means I will end up with Avast AV, CFP, BoClean,  Spybot.  I also have CCleaner. 
I think that tightens things up with the modern, up to date and more powerful freeware I need.

My only outstanding question is what to do about trojans.  I have Trojan Hunter, an excellent, dedicated program, and now BOclean.  The conventional wisdom is not to have two such programs as they will attempt to scan for trojans at the same time, with slow-downs and false responses.  That should mean, I think, that I dump BoClean.  But does it do a good job on trojans, i.e. sufficient to justify its use over Trojan Hunter.  I pay for TH.  What do you think?  Keep TH or use BoClean.? 



 

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Thats a tricky question. Boclean does not have an 'on-demand' scanner: rather it sits in the background and detects any Trojans as they attempt to activate, stops them and then asks you if you want to remove them. Trojan Hunter, I think, has a similar feature (Guard?) but also has an 'on-demand' scanner. I don't know about compatibility but in theory you could use Boclean for resident protection and Trojan Hunter to scan when you feel the need to 'check things out'. You would probably have to turn off the Guard feature of TH in this case.

I am fairly sure that Boclean will detect and stop more Trojans than TH but I know some folks like so 'Scan' every now and then for peace of mind and what one anti-trojan misses another will detect.

All I can suggest is you try TH with the Guard feature turned off (if it allows this) and just use it for scanning and also use Boclean for 'resident' protection.

  

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Thnaks again, N.T.T.W.  TH has a facility to 'unload' TH Guard.  So you are spot on once more.

Two questions:

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Oops!  Don't know what happened there!

Question 1   On what basis, if I may ask, are you able to say that 'I am fairly sure that Boclean will detect and stop more Trojans than TH'?   This would mean that BOClean anti malware freeware is more powerful than a commercial dedicated anti-trojan program.  Is it now as good as that for consumers in this field?

Question 2   I read about CAV and CAVS - are they the same program, just called different names as you prefer?

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Boclean was a paid for product before Comodo purchased the company and Comodo made the decision to offer the product free of charge as part of their policy of providing free security software to create trust online. 
Also: does the fact that a product is paid for mean it is better than one that is free: compare Comodo firewall 3 against any other firewall - it is the best there is and it is free. Comodo have invested huge amounts of money into development of security products. It is worth reading this:

http://www.comodo.com/boclean/boclean.html

To quote a snippet from the Comodo Website regarding Boclean:

"We have located and studied over 1,000,000 malware programs and new ones are appearing daily. The vast majority of them are modifications to older, existing malware. We only count unique malware in our "effectiveness count" and do not include renamed, repacked or variant malware in our listings. BOClean will simply detect those, eliminating user worry over so many "zero-day" warnings seen from other software manufacturers that turn out to be a repack or variant."

CAV and CAVS are the same though I think CAVS is the correct term - Comodo Antivirus and Antispyware.   I think CAVS 3 will be very good once it is finished.

 

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This is great to hear.  I am fully converted.

Thanks for all your help.  Much appreciated

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