Does Norton Systemworks protect against Spyware?

My friend has a slow hand-me-down computor that's never had anything like Spyware Search and Destroy. She says she has Norton Systemworks, but I'm not sure if she's protected against Spyware. Is she?

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According to symantec.com (Norton product website), no. Systemworks does not come with spyware protection.

Suggest Spybot Search%26Destroy. It can be downloaded from lots of places... www.majorgeeks.com, e.g.

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No.
yes she is, but why not add spybot search %26 destroy and addaware SE they run just fine with any anti virus tool out there. no one tool will find all spyware %26 addware. you need more than 1. I use 4 and this free tool will help greatly with an old pc as it will have many registry errors and files that need removed. http://www.iobit.com good luck hope this helps.
Yes but not all, Never use more than one antivirus program, but adding adaware se free and spybot all run together fine, diffeant software catches differant malware and spyware.
The short answer is that it is not effective. The long answer is that Norton, Mcafee, PCCillin, Panda, and other commercial anti virus and anti spyware applications don't work all that well. At one time or another each of these programs use to work well but then virus creaters created viruses to target these programs and take advantage of them. If you want the real answer to spyware problems read my article here voted best answer. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...