On Computers

January 2004, Week 1 -- The Invisible Man

The Visible Spy

One of the best programs for finding spyware on your Windows system is "SpyBot, Search and Destroy," which is free from www.download.com.

But SpyBot misses some spies. A search can also be done by Spy Hunter, which costs $30 from Enigma Executive Software Group www.enigmasoftwaregroup.com. This program worked all right for us, however, we have since received numerous reader complaints about this program. In a recent search of one of our hard drives, SpyBot found three pieces of spyware code lurking on our system. But when we ran Spy Hunter it found 19. You can download Spy Hunter and run it for free, but it will only tell you what spies it found. To remove those spies you have to purchase the program. Spy Hunter removes adware, cookies, internal pop-up programs, key loggers (that track your keystrokes) and spyware registry keys. They have a database of 193 computer parasites, which is updated regularly.


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