Spybot Search & Destroy Question

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I have had Spybot for a while now but never used it. I put some more memory in my computer to make it run faster and it helped but now its starting to slow down again. So i ran spybot just to see what if any problems i had and it found 170 of them. I heard that if you let Spybot delete all of these programs of files some other programs that are on our computer may not work. What i was wanting to know is which files can i delete safely without messing up my computer? The main 3 problems are "file", "Directory", and "Registry Key"
 
Most installed programs will be just fine. THe ones you need to worry about are freeware and shareware programs. A lot of them come bundled with spyware (like Kazaa was) and won't work when you remove that spyware.

If by chance one of these does stop working, generally just re-installing the program works to fix it.
 
I've never used ad-ware, but a friend recommended spybot to me and i think it works great.
 
it is good to have both there are some things adaware targets that spybot doesnt and visa versa. adaware has more updates and i believe they target hijacking files more than spybot does

My recommendation is to get both and keep them up to date
 
I have Spybot and Ad-Aware, and they are great, and recently I just got Spysweeper, it is excellent, I recommend it to all
 
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