Anti-spyware

What is anti-spyware

A software package helps protect your computer from spyware and other unwanted software. Anti-spyware is sometime also called spyware removal tool

The features

All anti-spyware products in the industry have two common features to combat spyware. The first feature, they provide real time protection against the installation of spyware software on your computer. This type of spyware protection works the same way as that of anti-virus protection. The anti-spyware software scans all incoming network data for spyware software and blocks any threats it comes across. Due to real time protection, this type of feature consumes some computer resources. The other feature, Anti-spyware software programs can be used solely for detection and removal of spyware software that has already been installed onto your computer. You schedule weekly, daily, or monthly scans of your computer to detect and remove any spyware that has been installed on your computer. This type of feature allow bntispyware program scans the contents of the windows registry, operating system files, and installed programs on your computer and will provide a list of any threats found, allowing you to choose what you want to delete and what you want to keep.

Add on protection

Other anti-spyware products have some value add protection. One of anti-spyware call STOPzilla offer to block Pop-up and Phishing attack beside stop and remove spyware. Some anti-spyware products with add-on antivirus feature - spy-sweeper with antivirus from Webroot are one of them.

Spyware database

All anti-spyware programs have a database somewhere in the package, which hold the information of spyware. By using this database, anti-spyware able to detect, remove and quarantine spyware program effectively. As new spyware programs are created everyday and they are getting sophisticate, the database need to update regularly whether automatically or user intervention or else the program will be toothless against new variant of spyware program.