Today, cyber criminals and rogue advertising companies are seeking more ways to gain access to your personal data. The main aim of these companies is to get insight into your online behavior so they can re-sell your data for commercial gain. Spyware takes on many forms, and has become much more creative in recent years. You can get a spyware infection through opening up an email, downloading a file or just visiting a website. Protecting yourself from spyware requires sophisticated software with frequent updates, and Spybot delivers an impressive suite of solutions for business and personal computers.

Protect Your Computer from Spyware

As one of the most time tested spyware packages, Spybot Search and Control also has one of the most comprehensive sets of features. The options in Spybot range from real time scanning and frequent databases updates to custom appearance skins. The software package is designed to check against all known and potential security threats to your personal identity. With an organized software scan, you can easily evaluate the threats to your system.

Spybot Search & Destory - main window

Spybot Search & Destory - main window

What is more impressive is that the Immunization option can prevent your computer from being infected in the first place. With a complete list of potential threats, as well as impressive software that can detect threats before they emerge, Spybot is particularly valuable for home and business users. As the threats to computers have increased over the years, there are a growing number of threats that are harder to detected; standard computer security and anti-virus tools often overlook these threats, which require a specialized tool such as Spybot.

Spybot Search & Destory - Immunize

Spybot Search & Destory - Immunize

The software is optimized to detect and eliminate a wide range of potential threats to your personal information, including web-based malware and downloading programs. With optimization tools for both your web browser and your registry, the software addresses multiple potential threats to your system. Updated to integrate real time support into a wide variety of browsers, including Mozilla Firefox 3, Internet Explorer 8, Google Chrome and Opera, nearly every user will benefit from Spybot’s features.

The newest version of the software features the advanced Secure Shredder feature, which allows users to clean files without completely deleting them. Since advanced spyware often infiltrates legitimate documents as a means of entry into the system, this is a particularly useful tool for many users. It can be difficult to filter out the threats that make important documents vulnerable; to ensure you can maintain your important documents while eliminating potential threats, Spybot is an ideal solution.

Spybot Search & Destory - Secure Shredder

Spybot Search & Destory - Secure Shredder

In terms of speed, the scan is fairly quick and reliable, able to run in the background of any PC on Windows XP or Vista without slowing down the system too much. You can set the system for an automated, regular scan as well as updates, ensuring your system is continually protected against potential threats.

Download Spybot Search & Destory from developers page.