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Fight back against spyware

You probably know by now that using a computer can be hazardous to your privacy, especially if you use your system online. But your privacy can be compromised even if you never link to a network. Sure, websites track your browsing habits with ads, cookies and web bugs, and they sell your personal information to marketers. Also, spyware and adware install on your PC by piggy-backing onto file-sharing utilities and other free software downloads.

While testing various antispyware utilities for a PC World feature last September, I discovered that two otherwise top-notch spy catchers,Lavasoft’s Ad-aware and PepiMK Software’s Spybot Search & Destroy, weren’t particularly good at finding the keyloggers that I had running in stealth mode on my test PC. Two other programs — PestPatrol’s PestPatrol and Webroot’s Spy Sweeper — were better, but still hit-or-miss. No productfound all the keyloggers I had installed, and even when they did find one, seldom could they completely disable or remove it.

While most of those programs — both the keyloggers and the antispyware utilities — have been updated since my tests, one thing is undoubtedly still true: the more anti-spy tools you employ, the better your chances of detecting a stealth keylogger. Everyone who connects to the internet should install and use both Ad-aware and Spybot as a matter of course.

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Действительно, чем больше анти-шпионских программ Вы используете, чем лучше. Лично я пользуюсь обоими рекомендуемыми автором бесплатно распространяемыми программами (Ad-aware от Lavasoft и Software’s Spybot Search & Destroy от PepiMK) и могу только подтвердить точку зрения автора, что множества шпионских штучек, обнаруживаемые различными программами, достаточно сильно пересекаются, но ни одна программа не ловит всё.