Anti-Spyware Products Don't Live Up to Promises

Posted by michael on Thursday December 2, 2004 @06:30AM from the take-off-and-nuke-it-from-orbit dept.

John Wells writes "In the December, 2004 issue of PC World, the author of an article titled Poor Defenders concludes that most commercial anti-spyware software is ineffective. In tests using a fresh install of XP and 6 typical spyware infections the commercial software failed to stack up against freeware competitor Spybot Search and Destroy. Four out of seven commercial products failed to remove any of the infections. One product even installed 57 spyware files itself! Conclusion: Use freeware products like Spybot and Lavasoft's Ad-Aware SE Personal."

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Re:not too comprehensive by over_exposed · 2004-12-02 06:43 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Usually i install Ad-aware se pro

And in doing so, you violate it's liscense agreement for using it for commercial purposes.

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