1.Webroot SpySweeper 2011:




PC tools is a major player in providing anti-spyware software over the past few years.Spyware Doctor 2011 keeps up with its reputation and is ranked number 3 in our Top 10 antispyware list. Talking about user interface,Spyware doctor has a unique UI.There are no sub menus,dialog boxes entirely.It is a simple tab design and whatever you want to do ,it is just a click away which is very pleasing for beginners .Generally we need an active internet connection for our security products to keep our data safe.Spware doctor doesn’t actually rely on definiton database but can actually have the technology to make on-the-fly choices.We found it very effective even when it’s not updated.So for users who don’t have an internet connection everyday,spyware doctor is the best bet. Intelliscan is one of the important features that spyware doctor possess which can stop spyware from entering your PC that were previously detected.So once it detects a spyware on your pc ,there is no chance that it comes back again.Spyware doctor is very heavy on using pc resources and you need a decent system with 2GB ram to run it smoothly which is the main disadvantage and made us rank no. 3 among the top 10 antivirus.PC tools provide good technical support over telephone,email and live chat. It comes at a price of $29.99 for 1 PC.

Lavasoft’s Ad-aware is another brilliant anti-spyware software.It is simple,effective and lightweight.The userinterface is good  and has two modes for basic users and advanced ones.Ad-Watch Live! Expert technology gives realtime protection to your computer.Lavasoft’s Genocode detection technology another important feature which is Ad-Aware’s advanced heuristic detection, which will proactively scan files  and analyses if a file is malicious by nature, even if it is not on the  virus definitions yet.Adware is very effective against spyware when compared to other anitvirus products but not good as those which are specifically designed for spyware like spysweeper,counterspy, etc .It does not use many resources and works just fine  even on a PC with 512MB ram.There are some missing features like antispam and email scanner that restricts it becoming the best,but it does the job very well with its  limited features.It comes at a price of $29.95 for 1 PC and makes its space at no.4 on top 10 antispyware softwares.

SUPER Antispyware professional is a very nice product which doesn’t use much space on your harddisk and has powerful and effective scanning and detection engines.The user interface is very straight forward. It doesn’t use much resources and doesn’t slow down your PC on most occasions.The scanning time is fast than other products and completes in 18-22 minutes .It detects most of the spyware,malware,trojans effectively and removes them completely.It has frequent updates which requires an always-on internet connection.This new version has protection against keyloggers which is impressive.SUPER antispyware has improved a lot over the years and we expect some great features in future too.It comes at a price of $29.95 for 1 PC.A deserving one to be included in the top 10 antispywares.

When we first looked at the feature set of this product we were impressed and expected it to be in top 3.But we are disappointed with the test results as they are not strong enough to detect some keyloggers and trojans though it was effective with spyware and malware.The user interface is good and simple but nothing exceptional to talk about.It is a very good product for detecting spyware but we don’t recommend it to be a must have because others are providing better detection and removal.Scanning is neither too fast nor too slow.A full scan happened over for 20 minutes.It still hasn’t became a complete spyware software as it has some missing features like antispam,email scanning.It comes at a price of $39.95 which is a bit overrated.

Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware is a nice lightweight program.It doesnt take much of your hard disk space ,the user interface is good with 2 scan modes – quick and full .The navigation of interface is not at all complicated.It has a tool called File Assassin which can unlock those files which are locked by some malicious programs.It does very effective job against malware and a mediocre job against spyware.We recommend using a spyware software ranked higher along with this to get top-notch protection against both malware and spyware.It is  priced at $24.95 which is quite decent and stands still at no.7 in out countdown of top antispyware softwares.

BluePenguins Spyzooka is another spyware software which looks  good but still requires some areas to be strengthened . Spyzooka offers complete browser support which is very important.It supports IE,Firefox,Opera and Netscape. Their techincal support is also very good.Apart from this browser advantage it doesn’t actually impress us in its detection and removal techniques.It comes at a price of $29.95.It looks good enuf for no.8 spot in the top 10 antispyware count down.

Enigma Software Group’s Spyhunter is very good product except for the updates support.It has very infrequent update definition list.Getting frequent updates for the latest spywares and trojans across the internet is very important and enigma failed in providing it.The UI  has some confusing elements regarding customization,but for all basic tools it remained fine.Enigma needs to take care about its definition list to compete with its rivals.It comes at a price of $39.99 .
FBM software’s ZeroSpyware makes last into our list of top 10 antispywares.Seeing its name we assumed after a scan we would be left with zero spyware but unfortunately we had about 20 spyware left  undetected which were detected by others.Zerospyware does a good job in detecting malware,trojans and worms but isn’t upto the mark  when it comes to keyloggers and spyware.ZeroSpyware has a 24/7 live technical support for which it scores an extra point but It misses important features like antiphising,antispam and email scanning and also does not detect adware which restricts it to become a fully featured software.We expect FBM software overcome these limitations in future releases.It comes at a price of $29.95.

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