Spybot – Search & Destroy – free antispyware protection

Spybot – Search & Destroy is an antispyware application that improves your computers security. This freeware is able to detect and remove this new threat, called spyware. Spyware is different from viruses, because it doesn’t spread itself. Anyway, both of them are bad for your computer.

Spybot - Search & Destroy screenshot

What is spyware?

Spyware is a form of malware that can be installed by a virus or by downloading software that you’ve decided to install. This type of malicious software is designed to collect personal information like web surfing habits, passwords, credit card numbers and more. If you experience strange advertising messages, excessive pop-ups or all of a sudden your homepage is set to an adult website, then there is a big chance that you have spyware installed on your PC.

How to get rid of spyware?

Spybot – Search & Destroy can help you. The program will delete adware files (the annoying advertisement I was talking about before) or other unnecessary files. If you know one or two things about computers, then you might want to try out the System Internals tool that will try to fix important registry entries. The new version of Spybot – S&D benefits from improved scan speed and protection for a wide range of applications.

Features

• Removal of keyloggers
• Permanent blocking of known tracking cookies for IE
• Often backups
• Removal of trojans
• Safe removal of malicious files by shredding them
• Weekely updates
• Top class support – free of charge

News in 1.6:

• tweaks in TeaTimer  - appropriate order of white and blacklists
• improved Mozilla Firefox support
• fixed an issue with delzip179.dll
• fixed usage with tracking cookies for Firefox 3
• SDFiles.exe are now auto-registering

Spybot settings

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