All of us here are technocrats, we know PC in and out. We do understand methods to keep our PCs clean from all malicious code. But we all fail to understand that Spyware is not looking for us?! The biggest problem is at home users. Now days every home users are well connected with huge Internet Pipe used for Mailing, Online Shopping, Booking tickets, Banking, sharing files, downloading Music. Threats related to same are in infinite forms, many of which are not widely understood by home users. They are carried away by the myth that possession of the Anti Virus will be sufficient for all the threats. Giants like Microsoft, Symantec, Trend, NAI & their multimillion dollar Advertisements oxidizing this Myth.
You can not expect home user to take magnifying glass and start looking into registery,System32 for infection. They need simple, easy to use and above all ?FAST? anti spyware product. But reality is very few products live up to these expectations.
Even if there is OEM Antispyware or AV installed in the machine, they will simply Exit/Disable the application to get faster performance. But you can not blame them, they have not bought PC to use Multi Colored Application to SCAN for infinite times??!!! So we have Spyware Doctor, Spyware Sweeper, Spyware Detector? the list goes on?!!! Again Confusion..! Why the hell I should pay for Anti Spyware Product where there are number of FREE Anti Spyware who ready to take up this cause??..but my friends ?there is nothing like free lunch in this world?..!!!! So shelling a money is only criteria?!!! To sum up things ?Removing Spyware is specialist job can not be compromise by Anti virus & Firewall. Dedicated Anti spyware solution is the key to protection. The key attributes for any Anti Spyware Solution are Time required for Scanning & Comprehensive list of defined Spyware threats.? As simple as that.