Spyware Doctor

I just want here to confirm what Justin said in his message below. I've also used Spyware Doctor, more than a year ago. Just before that, I was using several anti-spyware programs at the same time,until I realised that Spyware Doctor could replace them all, and even do a better job. Unfortunately, the program became very resource demanding, and occasionally conflicted severely with other applications on my system. That was the end of my relationship with Spyware Doctor. Despite an obvious change of behavior in a windows environment, Spyware Doctor remains in most reviews one of the 2 best anti-spyware, together with SpySweeper, that I never tested. I promise that I will, and report my experience in this blog.
One thing though, don't be abused by the button "START SPYWARE SCAN NOW", it does not mean that you will get an online scan of your drives; in PC Tools language, it's the download button for Spyware Doctor. I do not not appreciate such marketing methods.

AVG anti-spyware

As promised, here's a new post about AVG anti-spyware. AVG by acquiring it from Ewido made out of it one of the best anti-spyware on the market, which was not the case before. The interface has changed, the software is being updated sometimes more than 2 times a day. Though the software is not free, what remains from it after the trial period of 30 days is impressive:

* manual update remains possible ( you'll get up to 3 updates a day)
* custom scans
* all scan settings, including attached malware, archives, heuristic analysis, compressed executables, NTFS alternate data stream, dialers and more...
* the ability to generate reports, to quarantine malware
* a comprehensive analysis panel including processes, connections ( with the ability to terminate any), autostart items, browser plugins, and LSP viewer.
* a tools tab when you'll find miscellaneous entries to enable or disable some windows security related settings.

Now if you want to go for the commercial version, you will get an auto-update feature, a resident shield, and a scheduler for custom scans. You can test these features during the trial period of course.