Thursday, June 4, 2009

Problems in antispyware

Then I read Spyzooka collects its database of spyware from a robot. This was even more exciting because in my extensive research there are only 3 other companies that employ a robot to collect definitions for them.What the robot does is surf the internet 24/7 downloading spyware and analyzing it to be added to the database. Spyware has to be in the database in order for Spyzooka to know it’s spyware and remove it.The robot is much more efficient and error free in it’s calculations. This means a much larger database of known spyware.After finding out Spyzooka has won over 50 five star awards from other independent software review sites I decided to buy it. I thought maybe it would cost more than some of the other software programs but it doesn’t.


I downloaded Spyzooka on my pc after buying it, entered my license code, ran a scan and removed the spyware found. This was easy enough and the whole process only took about five minutes.What was interesting to me was that Spyzooka picked up on a spyware program and a
Trojan horse that the other anti spyware programs I tested didn’t catch. First I thought maybe it was a false positive but after investigating it I found it really was on my pc .Trojan horses are especially bad because they can get on your computer and steal things like passwords. So when you login to your bank account the Trojan horse can collect you username and password and send it to whoever created the Trojan horse so they can steal your bank account details. Trojan horses account for a large part of identity theft.


Unfortunately I went back on the internet and my connection was still slow and I kept getting these annoying popups even when my computer wasn’t connected to the internet .This is the place where I’d be in trouble with any other anti spyware software. I have to admit I was disappointed that Spyzooka didn’t remove the spyware that I bought it to remove on the first scan even though it did pick upon those 2 spyware programs the others missed.


I wasn’t sure what to expect next .I followed the simple directions SpyZooka sent me in the welcome email after I first bought it. I simply clicked the “Scan Report” tab in Spyzooka, entered my email address and clicked “Upload Report.” A few seconds later I got a message stating my report was uploaded. Then I simply waited.

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