spybot

[tall one]

i have both spybot and the new updated lavasoft{ someone posted it was good to have both }however when you run lavasoft after running spybot you find that spybot places a "data-miner" on your computer is this ok? should i be deleting this or leave it thanks in advance

[Tweaker]

Hey tall one

Where is the location that Ad-Aware finds these? Are you talking about the False Positives Ad-Aware finds in the spybot directory?

For me Ad-Aware finds the signatures of the spyware spybot finds and calls them "data miner" tracking cookies. I placed them in the ignore list.

[tall one]

thank you for your response tweaker ....adaware lists them under items to be removed if they are harmless i stand corrected i just thought it was strange that a program that is supposed to remove spyware inserts what appears to be spyware ...but i am a beginner when it comes to this stuff...although i ve learned a lot since reading thses posts

[Tweaker]

If you have allowed Spybot to remove things they still are stored on your PC in the Spybot Recovery folder just in case you want to put them back so Ad-Aware is reporting anything in that folder as spyware. Just put it on the ignore list. ;)

[enat66]

Can the spyware it puts in this folder do any harm? Does it automatically delete these after awhile?
In my personal opinion I like spybot better by the way.