If you are looking for a good antispyware software program for your computer, dont just leap on any. I highly recommeand that you first of all readthis very important information from what this computer technician said about his experience with several major antispyware software on his blog at http://antispywaresearch.blogspot.com/
How Anti-Spyware Software Works
Generally speaking, most anti-spyware works like that: it scans the operating system in search for suspicious bits of code. Should the program find any, it compares these suspicious pieces with bits of code (they are called signatures), which belong to already detected and "caught" spy programs. Signatures are kept in so-called signature base -- the inseparable part of any anti-spy program. The more signatures it contains, the more spyware such program will detect, so your PC will be protected more effectively. As long as you update your anti-spy software regularly and the system doesn't come across some unknown spyware product, everything is going to be all right.
As for me, this pattern looks pretty like police records and works like them, too. But…the problem is just like the one with police records – the fact that all included there are criminals doesn't at all mean that all the criminals are included into the records.
Well, what about the criminals (spy programs) that are not included into the records (signature bases)? There are lots of such programs -- more than that -- some of them will never be in any signature base. Just like with criminals -- some of them haven't been caught yet, and some will never be caught – because of their "right of inviolability". Anti- spy products based on signature base analysis will never be able to protect against these spies. Don't expect them to.
Let's take a quick look on these elusive spy programs.
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