I liked Ad-Aware a few years ago because it was fast, simple, and did what it was supposed to do. 2007 and 2008 versions turned into bloated beasts that took more than a half hour to do a "quick" scan, and it caused conflicts with OneCare. Just for kicks, I went to their website today and I see they've got the new "Anniversary Edition." It's everything I used to like about Ad-Aware! A scan took 2 and a half minutes! It doesn't make OneCare angry anymore. You can disable the constant monitoring things.
If you used to like Ad-Aware, give it a shot.
Ad-Aware Anniversary Edition
I was using Spybot for a while since it didn't interfere, and it didn't pick up anything. Ad-Aware's got a great detection level. It almost always picks up something, but the "ignore" function is easy enough to use. When I used it the first time here, it took out my hasbro.com cookie, but left TFA and Ebay cookies alone. I'm really happy with it.
To my way of thinking, false positives are a strike against software -- cookies aren't software, and the place for their control is the browser and any plugins (eg, Flash) that exhibit similar tracking behaviour.Notabot wrote:It almost always picks up something,
There are similar issues with anti-virus and anti-spyware packages picking up any executables compressed with certain packers as suspicious.