False Positives?

Question

Does anyone know if spybot search and destroy is prone to giving a lot of false positives, It always says ive got something, but ive tried several others and nothing, so im not sure which one i should be using, i have ad aware and like it.

Answer 1

Spybot consistently receives high marks in independent tests. Considering the price, it's a real bargain. But yes, it can give a lot of false positives, especially if your hard drive is included in the Download Directories setting.

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/faq/15.html

Also bear in mind that there is no antispyware program, no antivirus program, no anti-anything program that is 100% effective 100% of the time. New threats seem to appear hourly and updates to various products occur at different times. So today Ad-Aware might find something that Spybot misses, and next week Webroot Spy Sweeper might find something they both miss. There's nothing wrong having two or more anti-whatever programs available. My only suggestions: Keep them all updated and run only one at a time to avoid possible conflicts and crashes.

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Answer 2

False positives:not uncommon! But, lot of: that is not common!