AntiSpyware Software Reviews 2006

[littlebits]

www.2-spyware.com reviewed 68 AntiSpyware programs and tested them against the most common spyware/adware programs. Here is the Top 15 results. Te percentage is determined on how they can prevent, detect and remove spyware/adware.

01. PC Tools Spyware Doctor 91%
02. Webroot SpySweeper 89%
03. Sunbelt's CounterSpy 84%
04. Spybot S&D with Tea Timer 83%
05. Lavasoft's Ad-Aware SE Pro 82%
06. Ewido AntiSpyware 80%
07. Microsoft Windows Defender 79%
08. Ashampoo AntiSpyware 78%
09. SUPERAntiSpyware 77%
10. eTrust Pestpatrol 75%
11. ZoneAlarm AntiSpyware 74%
12. Win Patrol 73%
13. Spy Hunter 72%
14. X-Cleaner 70%
15. Ad-Protect 69%

The rest of the 68 programs scored less than 69% at detecting and removing spyware/adware. This includes TrendMicro AntiSpyware, McAfee AntiSpyware and Norton AntiSpyware.

However, SpywareBlaster (freeware by Javacool Software) was able to prevent 70% of the spyware/adware from installing. And HijackThis was able to list 80% of the spyware/adware installed.

For Anti-Trojan software, Trojans not detected by Anti-Virus software.

Trojan Hunter scored the best and Ewido AntiSpyware scored second. Other Anti-Trojan software didn't do very well on the tests.


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[Potato]

ZoneAlarm made my computer freeze upon boot. That sucked.

[Malakai1911]

Dont trust this site at all, his tests are bullshit.

First clue: 2-spyware.com sounds like a shady name.
Second clue: As soon as I saw TrojanHunter score as #1, l I knew there was something not right about it.
Third clue: Googling things. This guy is scum.

Whois info reveals domain registered to "Ugnius Kiguolis"

Googling that name reveals this page: http://www.webhelper4u.com/nontransponders/jurgitasites/jurgita_2-files_com.html
That page details the fact that the owner also pushes spyware on his own websites.

He also gets into an argument with people who linked his sites together here:
http://forums.maddoktor2.com/index.php?showtopic=268&st=30

He also owns:
2-brides.com
2-downloads.com
2-files.com
2-rentals.com
2-software.com
A-female-escorts.com
A-london-escorts.com
Esperonus.com
J-webdesigns.com
Kiguolis.com
R-creations.com
Scaffold-trade.com
Tarela.us

[littlebits]

Dont trust this site at all, his tests are bullshit.

First clue: 2-spyware.com sounds like a shady name.
Second clue: As soon as I saw TrojanHunter score as #1, l I knew there was something not right about it.
Third clue: Googling things. This guy is scum.

Whois info reveals domain registered to "Ugnius Kiguolis"

Googling that name reveals this page: http://www.webhelper4u.com/nontransponders/jurgitasites/jurgita_2-files_com.html
That page details the fact that the owner also pushes spyware on his own websites.

He also gets into an argument with people who linked his sites together here:
http://forums.maddoktor2.com/index.php?showtopic=268&st=30

He also owns:
2-brides.com
2-downloads.com
2-files.com
2-rentals.com
2-software.com
A-female-escorts.com
A-london-escorts.com
Esperonus.com
J-webdesigns.com
Kiguolis.com
R-creations.com
Scaffold-trade.com
Tarela.us

I don't agree with what this guy does with his websites, however the tests are pretty much correct.

Out of all of the reviews that I have read on Anti-Trojan software, they all agree that TrojanHunter is the best. http://www.anti-trojan-software-reviews.com/

Most of the other AntiSpyware software reviews also pretty much go along with his test results except for most other websites will not review freeware software and he does.

But most websites do agree that the top softwares include:
Spyware Doctor
SpySweeper
CounterSpy
Ad-Aware SE
Spybot S&D
Windows Defender
Pestpatrol
SpywareBlaster
HijackThis

Most either list SpySweeper or Spyware Doctor at the top.

There is no way to know what is the best to use, but these results can help you make a choice.


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[Malakai1911]

Your second link didnt perform tests very well, bonus points if you can figure out why.

Hint: Tested products against 16 trojans.


Read this review: http://av-comparatives.org/seiten/ergebnisse/atreport2006.pdf

[littlebits]

Your second link didnt perform tests very well, bonus points if you can figure out why.

Hint: Tested products against 16 trojans.


Read this review: http://av-comparatives.org/seiten/ergebnisse/atreport2006.pdf

That's a real nice review except they didn't review Trojan Hunter. It gave Ewido 73% which almost agrees with other reviews that I've read. But the other reviews gave Trojan Hunter 87%. I can't believe they left Trojan Hunter out of the reviews.

I do agree that AV-comparatives have some of the best reviews. I just wished that would review AntiSpyware products. And they need to review Trojan Hunter, which I do believe is the best Anti-Trojan program.



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[Malakai1911]

Yeah, the problem is they did review TrojanHunter. And it scored under 20%, which is why mischel internet security (makers of TH) asked to not have their results disclosed.

If they didnt want the results made public, I can only assume it was a deplorable performance.

(Read the report again, and you'll see that)

[littlebits]

Yeah, the problem is they did review TrojanHunter. And it scored under 20%, which is why mischel internet security (makers of TH) asked to not have their results disclosed.

If they didnt want the results made public, I can only assume it was a deplorable performance.

(Read the report again, and you'll see that)

Ok, I see it now. But it's kind of strange that TrojanHunter did so bad on their tests and all the other reviews it did excellent. The testing methods must be much different.

Just like the test results for Ewido are excellent only on this test result and most of the rest say it isn't affective for spyware or trojans. But I believe it is to early to get good test results for Ewido and a-squared because they are just too new. Ewido is an excellent product.


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[DwarfBaby]

I use numbers 2,4,5, and 11. All work great with no complaints.

As for ZoneAlarm it conflicts with a certain baby bells ISP software (SBC/Yahoo fucktards) that can cause the program to freeze. Why? SBC/Yahoo package randomly accesses the internet for no apparent reason and acts as a server. ZoneAlarm does not normally allow this and the SBC's shit software doesn't know what to do when it's blocked and crashes. You can avoid this by "not" installing SBC spyware/software and simply using your username/password with windows built in client.

I recommend the ZoneAlarm Suite as it is very light on resources and quick to install (compared to the Norton jackoff's suite). It also has much,much,much fewer bugs and has never asked me to reinstall everything at random like norton.

[jonny69er]

i agree with dwaftbaby zonealarm security suite works a treat along with spyware doctor,ad-aware se pro,winpatrol.counterspy

[RACKnRAIL]

Many reviews are biased are bought and paid for by the very companies that are being reviewed. It's like the old saying, don't believe everything you hear...especially on the internet.

[Malakai1911]

Ok, I see it now. But it's kind of strange that TrojanHunter did so bad on their tests and all the other reviews it did excellent. The testing methods must be much different.

Just like the test results for Ewido are excellent only on this test result and most of the rest say it isn't affective for spyware or trojans. But I believe it is to early to get good test results for Ewido and a-squared because they are just too new. Ewido is an excellent product.

Alright, thread was bumped so I figure I'll reply now.

Ewido has been around a long time. a-squared has been around a long time. TrojanHunter has been around a long time.

At one time I considered each piece of software on its merits. If you had an archived copy of my security guide, you can see I've even reccomended TrojanHunter at one time... highly reccomended, in fact. But the fact of the matter is when you stack it up against other software, it gets burned.

[napho]

It's tough to tell how effective things are. Some anti-spyware programs show something like Bearshare Pro as spyware, and include every registry entry. Some trojan programs include spyware definitions while others focus on trojans and worms only. As a result, 1 program might find 100 things that other programs don't, but none of the things are either legit or what that program is supposed to concentrate on.

[jonny69er]

i agree with napho, there's no 1 spyware app that does it all. Best 2 av 2 or 3 i reckon...

[littlebits]

It's tough to tell how effective things are. Some anti-spyware programs show something like Bearshare Pro as spyware, and include every registry entry. Some trojan programs include spyware definitions while others focus on trojans and worms only. As a result, 1 program might find 100 things that other programs don't, but none of the things are either legit or what that program is supposed to concentrate on.

I totally agree, some Ant-Spyware programs get a higher review because they detect more spyware, but most of the time it's just a bunch of FALSE Positives.

Out of the list here:
01. PC Tools Spyware Doctor 91%
02. Webroot SpySweeper 89%
03. Sunbelt's CounterSpy 84%
04. Spybot S&D with Tea Timer 83%
05. Lavasoft's Ad-Aware SE Pro 82%
06. Ewido AntiSpyware 80%
07. Microsoft Windows Defender 79%
08. Ashampoo AntiSpyware 78%
09. SUPERAntiSpyware 77%
10. eTrust Pestpatrol 75%
11. ZoneAlarm AntiSpyware 74%
12. Win Patrol 73%
13. Spy Hunter 72%
14. X-Cleaner 70%
15. Ad-Protect 69%

I have used, (1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10).
The ones with the least number of False positives were (2, 4, 5, 7).
The one with the most False positives was 10, followed by 6, then 9, and then 3.

Some of the reviews are only based on the number of spywares that are found counting all of the false positives which makes the reviews not valid.

If you use a Anti-Spyware program like Pestpatrol, it's most likely that it will found more spywares then all of the rest. But most are just False positives and some even important files and registry keys that you need.
It's really not worth having a program like this unless you want to closely look at everything it's found and select what to keep. However it sometimes will found real spyware that the others will not detect. Ewido AntiSpyware, SUPERAntiSpyware and a-squared also detect too many false positives but also can detect real spyware/trojans that the others will not detect.

Spywares & Trojans are real tricky and there itsn't a single program that will detect them all. But I prefer to use a programs with the least number of False positives.

I really don't like the idea where my printer, my monitor and my keyboard drivers, clean P2P clients and important operating system files get detected as spyware/trojans. This really could do more damage removing these kind of false positives then what the spyware/trojans would do themselves.



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[ugnius]

I just found out that user Malakai1911 is jumping on me in this forum..
I'll just point out the facts and the readers wil choose who is talking bullshit and who is not.

1. 2-spyware.com - shady name? :) its his personal opinion.
2. trojanhunter never was #1 on our site. Malakai seems dont understand the difference between the spyware and trojans. of course the tests are different and the results are different.
3. He is calling me a scum and he didnt even read all information to the end. And didnt even look if what he is found is Correct info.
3.1. the answer to webhelper4u is written here: http://www.kiguolis.com/archives/2005/05/12/webhelper4ucom-case-of-defamation/
3.2. I never pushed any spyware on my site. We help to remove spyware not to advertise it. Read the info again and try to findwhere I push spyware. I can pay somebody $1000 if they will find that somewhere I push spyware.
3.3. the link where he says that I'm arguing with oher user is not true.. I am not registered on that site. Jurgita is not me. And Malakai read the discussion to the end there.
3.4.in the malakais list there I own the sites more than half of sites are not mine. Check the information.

So readers of zeropaid forums can simply decide who is talking bulshit, who is not. All the reviews in 2-spyware are checked and written after the numerous tests. Any personal opinion about the owners of site ussually are the dirty talk of competitors.
I am really sad that Malakai Joined this dirty game.


Dont trust this site at all, his tests are bullshit.

First clue: 2-spyware.com sounds like a shady name.
Second clue: As soon as I saw TrojanHunter score as #1, l I knew there was something not right about it.
Third clue: Googling things. This guy is scum.

Whois info reveals domain registered to "Ugnius Kiguolis"

Googling that name reveals this page: http://www.webhelper4u.com/nontransponders/jurgitasites/jurgita_2-files_com.html
That page details the fact that the owner also pushes spyware on his own websites.

He also gets into an argument with people who linked his sites together here:
http://forums.maddoktor2.com/index.php?showtopic=268&st=30

He also owns:
2-brides.com
2-downloads.com
2-files.com
2-rentals.com
2-software.com
A-female-escorts.com
A-london-escorts.com
Esperonus.com
J-webdesigns.com
Kiguolis.com
R-creations.com
Scaffold-trade.com
Tarela.us

[Malakai1911]

What are you looking for me to add to the already negative things I listed?


You are considered by some to be a vandal at Wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Ugnius
"Please refrain from using the vandalism template tags on the user pages of editors with whom you have a content dispute."
"RainR called you on your spam. I called you on your spam and I'm sure others will too when they have a look at your website."

And are an admitted ban-evader:
"There is no reason to ban access to your page, we can access to it through proxy. ugnius"

Everywhere you seem to post you (or your co-worker, or your alternate personalities) make enemies:
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13506062
http://forums.maddoktor2.com/index.php?showtopic=268&st=0
http://spywarewarrior.com/viewtopic.php?p=15461

You advocate internet censorship:
"Nowadays Internet is full of spywares, viruses and adult sites it's very important to control our kids
activity on Internet. So parents should consider an opportunity to get a good Internet filtering software."
- http://www.spyware.lt/pdf/kids-and-internet-139-en.pdf

You have used material from other websites, and even if it wasnt your fault you still vicariously promoted copyright infringement by using material from spywareguide without attribution or permission:
http://web.archive.org/web/20040402040052/www.2-spyware.com/articles.php
http://web.archive.org/web/20040401092642/www.2-spyware.com/term.php

You seem to have layouts jacked from other websites too.
http://anti-spyware-review.toptenreviews.com/
vs.
http://www.2-spyware.com/compare.php


In my opinion, Littlebits was just plain wrong for even trusting your website. And as far as I'm concerned, so are others.

[ugnius]

ah so instead of reading and proving what you said before you are trying to add more nonsence things. thats a good start to a discussion. Why dont you try to prove something?

1. wikipedia? did you read what is wriiten there? there is no any vandalism there. Its a dispute. you are trying to defame me again.
2. ban evader? nobody is banned on my websites. And there are sited who dont like the truth and bans users. so who is bad?
3. its you who see enemies. I dont see them and I dont have any. Its a open disscussions not somekind of enemy making. So who is started this discussion? now you are my enemy? Who started to defame? Do you have at least some facts to start taliking this bullshit or you are just reposting some bullshit from others without any doublechecking?
4, yes. SO? these days its impossible otherwise. Or you think that parents should be responsible that their kids saw some harmfull popups or sites?
5. read that discussion again regarding copyrighs. Its was an open discussion. there is no any infringement. spywareguide removed their article because nothing was stolen. and only comments in some sites still remains.
6. its you opinion. nobody hijacked anything.

So basically instead of facts you are tring to read some 2-3 years old bullshit on internet and make your own bullshit like it some new information.
Find the facts and get a $1000 dollars from me. none of your so called facts are true. Try to prove any of them. Thank you
Its you choice to trust or not to trust a website. You still didnt provided ant arguments and proof s of what you found in comments of other sites. You just got into dirty game of competition.

[infoseeker]

its getting HOT here, but nice info from both of you

so for the other readers:

ugnius and littlebits = only 1


>>infoseeker / jhempelayo<<

[ugnius]

what? :))))))))
another myth starts to emerge..

its getting HOT here, but nice info from both of you

so for the other readers:

ugnius and littlebits = only 1


>>infoseeker / jhempelayo<<

[Malakai1911]

ugnius and littlebits = only 1

If you mean they're the same person, I dont think so... ugnius has terrible command of written english compared to littlebits.

2-spyware got into an argument with spywarewarrior (afaik, the first trusted site to study a whole host of fake spyware software)
"For spywarewarrior.com and suzi Proves doesn't exist. She tell that there is freedom of speech and she thinks that she can tell anything without punishment."
- http://www.2-spyware.com/articles/general/37.html

...would you trust an article with terrible grammar?
'Nowadays, almost every man or woman in U.S. has the access to the World Wide Web and use it more or less often."
I has the access! This theme is repeated throughout the entirety of 2-spyware.com.


As far as I'm concerned, I've proven two things.

...I've linked all your bullshit together and wouldnt trust a single inflammatory statement that comes out of your mouth. You can discredit what I've linked too all you want, but when someone takes a step back and looks at the whole picture, they will know exactly what is up.

...and littlebits should do more research before trusting anyone or anything. Lest we end up in an argument with crazy foreigners in the future.

[littlebits]

ugnius and littlebits = only 1

No sorry NOT the same person. I wasn't aware of this ongoing dispute with 2spyware.com.

I simply found this website by searching on Yahoo. I have read all of the info posted above and it sounds like a soap opera. I really don't want to get involved with.

For the reviews at this site, I do agree with most of them. I searched all of the internet trying to find a good review site. Most of the reviews that I found were completely bogus listing sorry bad Anti-Spyware products.

Spyware Warrior has some of the best reviews but is NOT updated to current. As products change and new products get developed, they should get reviewed again. That's why some of the info on Spyware Warrior is not accurate.

2spyware and Spyware Warrior review freeware products, unlinke the rest of the bogus reviews that only review paid products and pushing sorry products to the top of their list.

Anti-Trojan reviews are completely different on every website that I found.

Some say TrojanHunter is the best, others say Ewido or a-squared.

Since their really isn't a way for me to test this products without installing trojans to my pc, I did install all of them and scaned my clean pc just to see what they would find.

TrojanHunter found 1 false positive.
Ewido found 6 false positives.
a-squared found 13 false positives.

Sometimes I wonder if the Anti-Trojan reviews count the false posities as real Trojans giving them
a higher review score.




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[infoseeker]

SORRY (what a shame) :icon_shak

:icon_blac but in other side, the discussion gets little bit cool :icon_scra

[ugnius]

yes we argued with Suzi "spywarewarrior" few years Ago.
Guess what: We've got official apologise from Suzi and SpywareWarrior. You can Find it in SpywareWarrior website. And its written in this article you gave the link. You simply dont read everything.
Regarding english, yes there are mistakes, its not me who writes the articles, there are lots of people working on site. But thank you for your critics, we will fix that.

Again, I dont know what did you prove... Nothing, just posted 2-3 years old comments from other sites. But if you feel satisfied, I'm happy for you.

You simply dont understand that even if there were something not quite good in the past, it is past and its nothing like that anymore. there were some issues and everything was fixed. There are some issues now, like grammar, but it will be fixed too.
I wonder will you post the same bullshit after 10 years as a new information again?
that what you did is not professional, you didnt do your own research, you posted information without your own verification. Anyone can write some stupid things in internet and you will treat it as a truth?

ugnius


If you mean they're the same person, I dont think so... ugnius has terrible command of written english compared to littlebits.

2-spyware got into an argument with spywarewarrior (afaik, the first trusted site to study a whole host of fake spyware software)
"For spywarewarrior.com and suzi Proves doesn't exist. She tell that there is freedom of speech and she thinks that she can tell anything without punishment."
- http://www.2-spyware.com/articles/general/37.html

...would you trust an article with terrible grammar?
'Nowadays, almost every man or woman in U.S. has the access to the World Wide Web and use it more or less often."
I has the access! This theme is repeated throughout the entirety of 2-spyware.com.


As far as I'm concerned, I've proven two things.

...I've linked all your bullshit together and wouldnt trust a single inflammatory statement that comes out of your mouth. You can discredit what I've linked too all you want, but when someone takes a step back and looks at the whole picture, they will know exactly what is up.

...and littlebits should do more research before trusting anyone or anything. Lest we end up in an argument with crazy foreigners in the future.

[TrojanHunter]

Semi official response:

This test was done SOME time ago, with many "trojans" which are NOT trojans to us or any good scanner. Can you imagine simply a .bat file containing nothing but the following one line which fails to DO anything, on any PC in the world except the original infected PC:

copy xyjtdzh.exe c:\windows\system32\

Is this a trojan ? experts agree it is not.

Tests from massive archives of OLD VIRUSES (.com infectors, overwriters etc) none of which are in the wild, should NEVER be used for accurate representation of how a product is performing.

TrojanHunter concentrates on current problems - constantly changing and large amounts of new malware, we eliminate an estimated extra 100,000 trojans, backdoors (including nearly ALL of the open source SDBOT and other IRC bot problem) with one simple addition in TH 4.6 (generic registry detection).

The next versions will be including new generic file scanning designed to detect REAL world threats. Instead of listening to others opinions, on OLD tests with JUNK and broken files throughout, and masses of files we do not WANT to detect (why should every product detect the same anyway?) we urge users to try each of a few top scanners themselves, periodically.

No product detects everything, I see new malware every day and nothing ever gets close to full detection, GOOD HEURISTICS is taking over as the most important thing in a scanner. This is why new scan technology is being created for current and future threats.