SuperAntiSpyware, worth it?

One can never have too much security, although you should never run to products with active scan at the same time.  I prefer to have something like HitmanPro.alert protecting everything else while MBAM premium, NOD32 runs as the main AV/AM.  

But to your question - you don't need a dedicated antispyware program as long as you have something like MBAM to take care of it.  It can't hurt to run the free version of MBAE (anti-exploit) as well.

I use only one AV product installed (Symantec Endpoint Protection Corporate) and then use MBAM if needed but not installed. Too many AV products may cause conflicts that are the devil to uninstall.

I add a BIG HUGE dollop of Common Sense and do not ever get viruses.

I also use a top notch Spam Filter so as to turf the diseased emails before I get them.

I admit to using common sense as well (one needs to), but even so one needs to be careful.  I have not found that SEP to be all that effective.  It doesn't help that it is a managed version and I have no control over it.

We have SEP on MANY client computers on numerous clients and zero outbreaks on only a few viruses (which are lack of thinking for the most part). Our experiences will vary.

I suppose. I believe part of the problem is that I am looking at it from a users perspective.  Most users, in my experience, find SEP too restrictive.  Yes it blocks most everything, but at too great a cost.  When SEP is in managed mode, our super users can't configure it to their liking/usage.  They feel constrained (although they generally don't get infected), while others don't even notice it is there.  SEP is still somewhat of a resource hog in comparison to other software of the same type.  Kaspersky's equivalent offering has less false positives and is less resource hungry.  Although I don't own any of the kaspersky products, They do rank the highest in many of the independent comparisons.

SEP is still somewhat of a resource hog  <-- Not on our computers. CPU always < 5% on computers running properly. You may well be happier with a different product, but we do not have the issues you do with SEP. Just a different viewpoint.

What version are you using?  Our GPO pushes out 12.1.6 build 7004.

I am using SEP 14.0 MP2 Build 2415. But we did not have much issue with 12.1.6 either

Is that a managed version?  I didn't particularly like the resource hungry version 11 (which was unmanaged).

I have clients with Managed 12.1 and 14.0 and myself and a few others Unmanaged at 12 and 14 both . V 11 was a while ago (a year or more).

I thought it was longer, but v11 left a permanent bad taste in my mouth.  Same thing with v12 of AVG free.

Neither Nod32 nor MAB gets ride of adware. I don't know about SEP and the others. And getting rid of adware (cookies) was all that SAS did. So let me drill down and ask, should one look for software that does this, or is their a manual way to delete adware? Or does it matter, should a user bother? I know ESET and the other major anti-virus software companies make expanded products that protect against virus etc plus get rid of adware as well. Then one asks, what's the cost, what's the footprint, how will these affect the machine in general.

Too bad this https://www.malwarebytes.com/adwcleaner/ isn't integrated into the main product.

Why ?  you don't need it
only when there is a suspicion of malwares it comes into play

All right gents, discovered I was using the wrong terminology. It's tracking cookies I want to get rid of. Guess I'll have to do that by hand in Firefox - choosing which cookies to keep, or run either Malwarebytes adware program or one by BitDefender. I guess the question is really: how much do tracking cookies adware slow one's computer.

Thanks one and all. Learned a lot.

You are very welcome and I was happy to help

and hopefully you have no more problems now