Anti Spyware
Analysis
Welcome to Anti Spyware Analysis reports. Our goal is to
provide confirmed facts, profiles, and unfiltered consumer
feedback of the 3 major products in the Anti Spyware
software industry. These anti spyware tests can help you
make better choices when buying anti spyware software.
What Exactly Is
Spyware?
Spyware is a term that describes any type of software that
is used for covert activities such as collecting your personal
information and changing the configuration of your
computer. The catch is that spyware is downloaded without
your permission. Normally, you won’t even know it’s there, when
it enters your system.
In extreme bad situations you may notice a slow down in your
system performance or (if your computer is also infected with
Adware) a annoying popup ad can appear at random. All in
all it can be very frustrating and often difficult to rectify
once a full blown infection takes hold on your computer.
Statistics have shown that over 98.3% of pc's have spyware and
corrupted registries.
Our Spyware Tests
We tested three popular products across a range of tasks. We
rated each on a scale of one to five based on the following
areas:
Removal Effectiveness, Ease of Use, Resource Usage and
Overall Performance.
Below are the results of our test results:
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Anti-Spyware Software Best by
Test.
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CounterSpy
Hardly anyone would be
displeased by this software's overall
performance. CounterSpy performed very
well across all our tests.
Even when we extracted an
additional RAM from one of our test systems
bringing its total random access memory to
512MB, CounterSpy proved us wrong.
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the Detailed Product Report
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Anti-Spyware
Software Runner Up.
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XoftSpy SE
When testing the software on a
9 month old notebook, we carried out a full
system scan and it discovered 93
infections.
Fortunately, it was able to
treat these infections as a good
anti-spyware should and fully removed a 74
of these...
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the Detailed Product
Report
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This
Anti-Spyware Software came 3rd in our
Test
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NoAdware
This software's history is somewhat
controversial. Within the past few years,
numerous customers have attacked NoAdware for
using aggressive marketing tactics.
Some customers implying that it displayed
false spyware and adware infections to hasten
the need to make a purchase.
It was previously known as a rogue
anti-spyware until recently when Spyware
Warrior erased it from its list of rogue
anti-spyware.
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