 TopTechNews.com (Mark Long) | 8. September 2006 | | Software Review on Top Tech News | | | The only real downside to this program is that it is not preinstalled on every PC | With Spybot, PC users concerned about security have an excellent, no-cost and no risk opportunity to secure previously unprotected systems or find out whether an existing anti-spyware setup really does catch all the bugs. [..]
Unlike other anti-spyware programs, which can take a very long time to scan through each and every file that resides on a PC, Spybot is able to scan a PC in just a few minutes by focusing on specific places where unwanted spyware programs are most likely to infect the hard drive. [..]
Team Spybot deserves kudos for equipping its anti-spyware program with an advanced mode that incorporates a wide variety of customization options for experienced PC users. In this respect alone, the program is a must for anyone who is serious about threshing today's more obnoxious spyware proponents. [..]
Spybot also features a very cool "immunize" control that enables the program to reject certain types of recognized spyware programs before they can even gain a toehold on the PC's hard drive, which gives it a leg up over competing anti-spyware programs such as Ad-Aware. |
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| PCWorld.com | 28. March 2006 | | 101 Fabulous Freebies | | | PCWorld's 101 Fabulous Freebies | | Spyware: It can slow your system, monitor where you surf, and even make your browser malfunction. Though no tool is a cure-all, Spybot is a powerful antidote to many ills. In addition to finding and deleting spyware, Spybot can continuously monitor your system for changes, giving you an opportunity to permit or disallow critical Registry modifications before they happen. |
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| c|net (Robert Vamosi) | 1. November 2005 | | Spies, begone: five antispyware apps reviewed | | | Our favorite spyware killer | | Once again, Spybot Search and Destroy is our Editors' Choice. It's free, without even an annual subscription for the periodic file updates, and it offers both basic and advanced modes and includes the widest variety of customization of the five antispyware products we reviewed. New in this version are automatic updates. In our informal tests, Spybot was thorough, rooting out even obscure spyware. If you're new to the spyware threat, it can't hurt to download a free (no strings attached) copy of Spybot to see whether your system is infected. |
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| vnunet.com (Tim Smith) | 5. July 2005 | | Review | | | Protect yourself from spyware on the internet | As with viruses, spyware has caused such controversy that a number of software programmers have developed utilities to eliminate it.
Such is the feeling surrounding the issue that many of these are either shareware or completely free.
Perhaps the most complete freeware tool is Spybot Search and Destroy. This not only sniffs out and removes any hidden fiends, it can also immunise your system against over 400 different spies.
Regularly updated data files help keep you protected, and the package even supports over 30 languages. |
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| TechBuilder.org (Rebecca Rohan) | 15. June 2005 | | Read the review at length | | | The latest version of this popular, free spyware slayer is faster and easier to use. | Spybot - Search & Destroy has been unearthing keyloggers, trackers, hijackers, cookies and other adware and spyware for years, so an update is big news. The new version is faster than its predecessor, with a more professional, aesthetically appealing, and less confusing interface than predecessors
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Version 1.4 is a leap ahead in polish, speed, ease of use for novice users and power for more knowledgeable ones. And it's all free. |
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| TechTV (Dan Mitchell and Roger Chang) | 19. May 2003 | | Free File: Spybot -- Search & Destroy |  | | Annihilate spyware and adware hidden on your hard drive. | Who's watching you compute? In this age of data insecurity and unscrupulous
online spyware, Spybot has made a name for itself as the premier ad and spyware
killer. Much to the delight of its followers, Spybot creator Patrick Kolla has
released an update to his popular freeware. Today we'll explore its new and
improved features and show you how to find and eliminate spies on your hard
drive.
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| PC Magazine (Cade Metz) | 22. April 2003 | | Reviews | | | Spyware: It's Lurking on Your Machine | For this, our first head-to-head roundup of spyware detection and removal
applications, we found that the space isn't as mature as we had expected:
Many of the applications were unstable and seemed to cause more trouble (or at
least more remarkable trouble) than they solved. Only one, PepiMK Software's
SpyBot Search & Destroy (our Editors' Choice), actually managed to
destroy the spyware and adware it detected without leaving much detritus behind.
We'd like to see this space evolve into a more organized, standardized field,
as the antivirus field has done, where definitions of the offenders are known,
agreed on, and perhaps shared by a central body. This would aid identification
of offending applications梐nd perhaps free up the vendors to develop better
methods of removing all the many files, folders, DLLs, and Registry keys that
their unpleasant targets currently leave behind on people's systems.
In the meantime, SpyBot Search & Destroy is the best of the bunch. And as a
free application (with a voluntary donation requested), it's far more worthy
than competitors that cost upward of 30 dollars. |
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| PC World (Steve Bass) | 1. March 2003 | Home Office: A Boot Full of Windows Wonders
What will you do with all the time these downloads save you? | | | Anti-Spy vs. Anti-Spy | | I know that we tout Ad-aware in "20 Tools for Trouble-Free Computing" as a
great tool for finding and removing those insidious spyware programs that lurk
on your hard drive and extract details about you. But I discovered an app that
outshines Ad-aware: Spybot Search & Destroy. Both Ad-aware and Spybot are free,
so I downloaded and ran them both, and then I compared the results. (If you do
this, make sure to set the programs to find spyware, not remove it, during the
test.) The score? Ad-aware found 9 items (cookies and one false-positive
program), while Spybot red-flagged 26 items (cookies and two spy apps). Guess
which of the two I always use now? Go to this page at PCWorld.com's Downloads
to get either program. |
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| CNet (Robert Vamosi) | 18. February 2003 | | CNet reviews | | | Spybot blows venerable Ad-aware out of the water when it comes to protecting you against ad-serving software. | | For years, removing ad-serving software (often called adware or
spyware) from your desktop has been the job of one product: Ad-aware by
Lavasoft. But there's a new game in town. PepiMK Software's Spybot offers a
wealth of useful features that, frankly, should send Lavasoft back to the
drawing board. Spybot delivers useful tools such as an e-mail list of opt-out
addresses to stop unwanted solicitations and a file shredder to securely
overwrite unwanted files deleted from your PC--all of which Ad-aware Standard
Edition lacks. Best of all, Spybot does it all for free. For protection
against ad-serving software, Trojan horses, and other means of tracking your
surfing habits, get Spybot immediately. |
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| ZDNet (Robert Vamosi) | 17. February 2003 | | ZDNet Desktop edition | | | How to protect yourself from snooping software | IF YOU ASK ME, these apps, called adware or spyware, have no business being
on anyone's desktop. That's why I am pleased to share with you a new--and
completely free--product that'll remove them from your PC: Spybot Search &
Destroy.
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This fee, though admittedly not very high, started to seem less worth it the
more I learned about a new, free program called Spybot Search & Destroy.
Spybot not only identifies and removes ad-surveying apps embedded on your PC,
but also spots Trojan horses, dialers (apps that use Active X to dial
expensive 976 telephone numbers), security leaks within Microsoft's Internet
Explorer, and other malicious behavior on your PC.
SPYBOT OFFERS significant advantages over the free version of Ad-aware, too.
Unlike Ad-aware, which doesn't give you any information about what it finds
on your PC, Spybot provides you with a clear list of everything it's
discovered. Simply mouse-over any item on the list, and you can find out
where it came from, what it does, and what Spybot recommends you do--keep
it or destroy it. |
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| TechTV (Chris Pirillo) | 7. February 2003 | | Chris Pirillo's Favorite Freeware | | | If you're tired of hearing me recommend this free file, too bad. | | It works. Spybot -- Search & Destroy effectively detects spyware, adware, key
loggers, Internet dialers, browser hijackers, and even some trojans. Are you
getting charged $200 a month for phone calls to the Cayman Islands? Get this
free file. Do you have to reset your homepage every time you open Internet
Explorer. Download this free file. Do you.... You get the picture.. |
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| Cial (Govind Menon) | 30. December 2002 | | Freeloader | | | Freeloader completes another year of providing cool freebies | | This software [Spybot-S&D] can find just about any spy application on your
PC. It includes its own update module. And I use it after every Internet
session to ensure that the worst won't become crippling issues the next time
I go online. What I really love about SS&D is its ability to add a list of
illegal windows hosts, typically spy ware and pop-up advertising sites, to
your browser's Web hosts file. This maps the banned sites to the localhost
IP address. Effectively ensuring that your won't be plagued any longer by the
annoying. |
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