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I tried Spy Sweeper; a product which costs only $29.95, and which won PC Magazine's Editor Choice Award in March 2, 2004.
I ran Spy Sweeper the day Richard recommended it. As you can see, it loaded 22,500 "software fingerprints" which it just downloaded from their site; these "software fingerprints" are much like virus definitions download from the virus protection sites. One even subscribes for new "software fingerprints" after the first year.
Spy Sweeper inspected 2,209 memory items, 7,769 registry items, 75,259 files and folders, and found 94 software programs, and 210 traces (2 adware programs and 208 suspicious cookies).
I told it to remove all of the suspicious items:
This was the final result screen:
10 days later I decided to run it again. This time it loaded 22,550 "software fingerprints", inspected 1,869 memory items, 7,762 registry items, 86,771 files and folders, and found 17 software programs and 27 traces. I understand the traces, but I don't understand the software programs, since it did not recommend removing any software programs (other than the two adware progams it found the first time I saw it), yet the first time it found 94 software programs, and this time it just found 17 software programs.
I told it to remove all of the suspicious items:
This was the final result screen:
I then realized I had just scanned drive C, and I have Drive C, D, and E, so I reran the scan, searching all three. This time it loaded 22,550 "software fingerprints", inspected 1,915 memory items, 7,762 registry items, 425,160 files and folders, and yet found no suspicious software and no traces.
Obviously I only need to scan Drive C in the future.
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