![]() ![]() System Spyware Interrogator (SSI) - (detect only).Bazooka Adware and Spyware Scanner - Does not disinfect.Yahoo! Toolbar with Anti-Spy provides light scan based on PestPatrol. It is the latest to be listed on Spyware Warrior's trustworthy list. SUPERAntiSpyware a newer product is well known for its ability to remove hard to remove malware. Together with Spybot - Search & Destroy (see above), Ad-Aware is the most well known (and one of the pioneers) Antispyware product out there. Note : Spyware Terminator was formerly listed on the Spyware Warrior's rogue list but is now delisted. See Lists_of_freeware_blocklists for more applications and lists that do similar functions. It is included here only because it is popular. ![]() Technically this is just using the builtin features of Windows and the browser and hence does not really count as typical real-time protection. Note : SpywareBlaster only provides blacklisting of ActiveX controls and cookies, plus importing of sites into Internet Explorer's restricted zone. Also often associated with Anti-Spyware protection is blacklisting of cookies and lists of sites to be imported into Internet Explorer's restricted zones or placed into hosts file. Spybot - Search & Destroy's Tea-timer and SpywareGuard also provide very limited protection in this area (their protection is more of the second kind with the classic signature database being outdated).īecause in the past exploiting or using ActiveX controls was a very popular manner of installing Spyware and Adware, a very popular anti-spyware device of blacklisting specific ActiveX controls was built into many popular antispyware programs like Spybot - Search & Destroy and SpywareBlaster. Recently (June 2007), you can also get the Spyware Doctor™ Starter Edition - from Google which has a file guard. The former is rare in freeware products, however it is provided by Spyware Terminator (Note Spyware Terminator also has very good protection of the second kind) and Microsoft's own Windows Defender. The later is not as important if you intend to supplement your protection with HIPS. There are basically two types of antispyware real time protection, one is the classic resident shield that scans by signatures and detects malware as files are written on the hard-disk or executed etc (just like in Antiviruses) and the other is behavior monitoring that informs you of changes to your system (autostart-ups, browser home pages etc.). Unfortunately most of the free antispyware products lack good real time protection. Many antiviruses provide antispyware scanning abilities (although the free version of AntiVir does not), but many users still prefer to include AntiSpyware.
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