I have Shaw Secure, RegCure & XoftSpy on my computer. Shaw's scheduled scan is Wednesday, RegCure's is Thursday & XoftSpy's is Friday. And, of course, I can manually do whatever. Is this OK?

Yesterday, I tried to manually scan with Shaw Secure. I clicked the Scan button & it would not go to the next step. I had to unistall then reinstall it. Time will tell I guess but I would appreciate any inputs.

Edit: Moved topic to the more appropriate forum. ~ Animal

My take on registry cleaners, use only when necessary. I haven't run mine in 2 years. I certainly wouldn't run it once a week. Xoftspy used to be considered rouge software. They supposedly cleaned up their act
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XoftSpy( note the wiki entry was probably written by someone at Xoftspy)
I have no experience with Shaw Secure
Mark

Other users comment on Shaw: http://forum.ncix.com/forums/index.php?mod...1&subpage=1

One 'ranking' of anti-spyware: http://www.adwarereport.com/mt/archives/000004.html (Many others as well)

Shaw does not seem to be well liked. I never heard of it before. Many other utilities seem to rank above Xsoft.

As for RegCure- I have read many posts on various boards from folks with problems that said "It all started right after I ran RegCure."

Registry 'cleaners' are not needed by XP, and the chances that they will create problems is much (much) grater than any slight improvement that may occur. I read a post from a long-time Microsoft MVP who said that he had been using XP since it was first released, and had never cleaned the Registry. Everything still works fine...

Would definately agree that you shouldn't be running Regcleaner that often if at all. Only when really needed and then ONLY after backing up the registry.

Shaw Secure: I've no user experience but is a product from F-Secure a very good company. I feel it's Ok to use as they provide the Shaw product to you thru your ISP,correct. It may not be as good a the free ones you can get here but agai ,no experience.
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But any way the Rule of thumb is One AV,One firewall ( as you didn't mention what you are using there).
and several layers of Anti spyware of which I recommend SuperAntiSpyware ,Comodo BOClean and Spywareblaster