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: 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: 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…)