like ad-aware and MS anitspyware?????

You can have several on your computer, just not all running at the same time. You may or may not get away with it. Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime; Then industry pollutes the water and kills all the fish.

The fact of the matter is you better have all of them you can find! Each one finds something that the other one dont! Only thing is I seem to find spybot useless running adware because I never find anything using spybot after running adaware. But do with all others. God made men and then rested, God made women and noones rested since..

Spybot's tea timer option is very good at stoping program and registry changes Ms's new spyware also blocks changes. I run Spybot S&D with tea timer option, spywareblaster 3.3, and ms,s Giant spyware program all running at same time. I will run Adaware Se 1.05 ever couple weeks. The only program of there 3 that is a system hog is ms's, but it is one of the best spyware killer. Just don't try to run more then one AV program at the same time, so will coexist but most will not.

Simple answer is 'no, there's no problem in having more than one spyware program', (unlike antivirus programs). Adaware works differently from the others as it is purely a scanner - it doesn't do anything in the background. MS is the biggest resource hogger (no surprise there) and it will probably be the best to have in the future, but it still does not do the best job - it doesn't seem to do anything about tracker cookies and it still misses some spyware attacks, but as it's still only in beta format, feedback should plug these holes. Spybot & Spywareblaster both use a database of known spyware sites in order to keep systems clean (Spybot also has the scanning ability of course as well), but they don't work in the same way so what one misses the other may catch. Because they are basically passive programs you won't get conflicts, so currently it's a case of 'more is better'. "I know that I'm mad - I've always been mad..."

Only SpyBots T-Timer and AV progs normally run continuously. Most of the rest you run individually, so they wouldn't normally clash. I like T-Timer but it can be a pain (wrecking Scandisk, Defrag and the like). I found it best to introduce a shortcut to the .exe. I could then restart it, after I'd turned it off in the System Tray to perform other tasks without intrusion. BTW if you have SpywareBlaster installed when you run SpyBot it notices that fact and advises you to not use the immunize feature. It says that SpywareBlaster is better for this function. Derek.W