If you are used to downloading various free software from the Internet, please remember, this is the best way to have spyware delivered on your PC. Under normal circumstance, we will unthinkingly click the fuzzy previous agreed statement of some applications which might be implanted spyware by many legitimate advertisers or procedure authors. Some hackers even license software by adding them “spy” and releasing them on behalf of “crack version”.

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Software Description: Ad-Aware 2008 provides powerful protection that detects deceptive malware and spyware applications before they integrate into your PC and steal your personal information. With an on-demand scanner and real-time monitoring, Ad-Aware protects you from dangerous intruders and prying eyes.

The Good: Lavasoft’s Ad-Aware 2008 will have you making a lot of benefits on detecting malicious adware and spyware applications before they sneak into your system and do any harm to your personal information. Not only the on-demand scanner protects your computer against malware, but also a real-time monitor runs in the background which plays the role of tracking registry changes, installation of malware, and some other things like unfavorable cookies. (more…)

Software Description: Spyware Doctor has been downloaded over 125 million times with millions more downloads every week. People worldwide use and trust Spyware Doctor to protect their PCs from spyware, adware and other online threats.

The good: PC Tools has recently updated their program Spyware Doctor and makes some amazing improvements. At the newly released Spyware Doctor 5.5, we find less annoying software glitches we experienced with its former version while picking up more malicious malware and potential ones that its competitors may miss. (more…)

Software Description: AntiSpyware 2008 is a cutting-edge anti-spyware solution. Our revolutionary Antispyware Free Scan was created by the industry’s top spyware experts in order to protect your computer and your privacy, while ensuring optimal system performance. With the ability to locate, eliminate and prevent the widest range of spyware threats.

The Good: Antispyware 2008 is very effevtive at locating, removing threats and thus protecting your computer from dangerous Trojans, worms and dialers. It does a good job on blocking most of all the testing threats in our lab. (more…)

Software Description: AdwareBOT 2008 is the industry’s latest, most advanced anti-spyware product. This breakthrough application was created by the most highly-regarded experts in the anti-spyware industry.

The Good: AdWareBot2008 is an adequate spyware removal program that detects and removes spyware and adware, and is easy to use. With more features and improved customization, AdWareBot 2008 can be ranked as one of our Top Brand Reviews programs. This program works with Windows Vista.

During the testing, we found that AdWareBot 2008 offers many good features, including Real-Time Blocking and Protection and color-coded Spyware Severity Identification. (more…)

Software Description: Publisher’s description: Spybot - Search & Destroy detects and removes spyware, a relatively new kind of threat not yet covered by common anti-virus applications. Spyware silently tracks your surfing behaviour to create a marketing profile for you that is transmitted without your knowledge to the compilers and sold to advertising companies.

The Good: SpyBot Search &Develop can detect and remove a multitude of adware files and relative modules from your PC. It can also clean tracks left after you use your computer, which is especially useful if others might view your computer. (more…)

Software Description: Designed to scan the user’s complete computer system to detect spyware parasites and quarantine the infected files for immediate protection, XoftSpySE Anti-Spyware is your fast, dependable anti-spyware defense.

The Good: XoftSpy by ParetoLogic is a strong anti-spyware product with helpful features. The program is simple to customize and easy to install and use. Further more, XoftSpy did detect much of the spyware and adware we tested.

When testing, we found that XoftSpy possesses quite a lot of spyware and adware. Conveniently XoftSpySE provides a “view details” section that takes you directly to their dictionary and explains the source, nature and threat of it’s findings. We also found that XoftSpy often advised users with helpful suggestions of removing spyware and adware, which may do great harm to you computer. (more…)

Software Description: Spyware & Adware can not only result in data corruption, personal profiling, hacker attacks, pop-up ads, spying, but also identity theft.SpywareStop, the ultimate solution against spyware.

The Good:SpywareStop is a spyware removal product. This anti-spyware application does not offer as many features as our number one ranked product, but it does a decent job of keeping your PC spyware-free. The product is also easy to use.

SpywareStop searches for spyware in real time. In other words, the program monitors and alerts you as spyware attempts to install and run. Once a spyware component is detected, you will be able to select it and read a brief description. Then you may click on the component to see a brief definition, and decide to remove or ingore those items on the page of result as you like. (more…)

Software Description: Noadware 5.0 is constantly updated to identify the latest threats to your privacy. The software will scan your PC for different Spyware, Adware, Dialers, and Web Bug traces.

The Good: NoAdware includes every security feature we were looking for. It is easy to customize and offers some of the nice customer service and support we’ve experienced.

NoAdware is fully compatible with Vista and can protect your computer from threats of spyware, adware, malware, viruses and rootkits. (more…)

Software Description : Blocks certain more sophisticated worms (such as Blaster and Sasser) before they enter your computer Norton AntiVirus was designed to remove viruses, worms, and Trojan horses automatically - without interrupting your work. Norton AntiVirus can also detect spyware and other non-virus threats.

The Good: Norton AntiVirus is a powerful suit of antivirus that will help you detect thousands of unknown or existing viruses. It will start the protection in your PC automatically whenever you startup your system and minimizes in the system tray. It will warn you of the viruses, worms, Trojan horses and more every time you are running a disk, a browser, an email operation or some programs if there is any risk. It will be with proper information for you to settle down what has happened. Live update can help you connect with FTP Server of the Symantec to download the latest virus database. (more…)