Spybot Search & Destroy

Spybot Search & Destroy
Version 1.6.2
Added May 23, 2010
Homepage/Developer
Compatibility : Windows 2000/Vista/XP/7
File Size : 15.7 Mb
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Excellent spyware detection and elimination tool!

SpyBot-S&D searches your hard drive for so-called spy- or adbots; little modules that are responsible for the ads many programs display. But many of these modules also transmit information about your surfing behaviour and more to the net. If SpyBot-S&D finds such modules, it can remove them – or replace them with empty dummies in case their host software won’t run with its bot removed. In most cases, the host still runs fine after removing the bot. Another feature of Spybot S&D is the removal of usage tracks, which makes it more complicated for unknown spybots to transmit useful data. The list of last visited websites, opened files, started programs, cookies, all that and more can be cleaned. Supported are the three major browsers Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera. Last but not least Spybot-S&D contains some routines to find and correct invalid entries into the registry.