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Spybot - Search and Destroy 1.4


Spybot - Search and Destroy 1.4
Price: Free

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Reviewed By: Robert Irvine

This review updated: 06/07/2006
Featured in magazine:
Issue 139
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Web Address: www.safer-networking.org


One of the oldest and most trusted anti-spyware tools, Spybot keeps ahead of the pack by checking your system against its comprehensive database of more than 37,000 known threats. These include diallers, hijackers, keyloggers, Trojans and browser helper objects (BHOs). The program is particularly effective at discerning whether to ignore or identify tracking cookies, many of which are harmless, and lets you review and remove scan results with single clicks. Best of all, Spybot offers strong immunisation against bad products to prevent them installing on your system, though this currently only works with Internet Explorer. Further protection tools are available in its Advanced mode such as locking your browser's start page against changes and securely deleting sensitive data files.

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