This program is by faaaaaaaar the most effective! Searches for over 78,000 spyware components! SpySubtract only 37000, S Eliminator only 36000 and is partnered with a spyware company, WhenU. It's evil! Eliminator is always rated #1, but it really should be down at #5. Ad-Aware only 37000, and S Doctor and Spybot-S&D only 23000 and PestPatrol only 22000. The best is Spy Sweeper!!!

I am a tech with over 9 years of experience in the IT field, running my own computer repair business. Lately, more and more clients have their systems infected by spyware. I have used until a few months ago Pest Patrol, which is a good application. However, I think that Spy Sweeper 2.6 is much better, and most likely one of the top antispyware products out there. I have purchased the full copy and used it on my home systems, to test it. Even though I am very careful in what I am downloading, Spyware still found a few traces and spyware apps, and some of them were not detected by Pest Patrol. Since I've discovered Spy Sweeper, I have recommended to about 10 clients who needed a cleanup of their system. It really helped out clean the systems affected and it seemed to hold the fort against spyware that would want to keep coming back. Even the freeware copy (which will allow only a one time update) is excellent, and will make you think immediately about buying it. But I highly recommend to anyone looking for a good antispyware tool to purchase the subscription for the utility as there are almost weekly updates, which are not available for the free version after the first update. I have installed for customers their own copies on Win Me, Win 2K, and Win XP systems with no problems whatsoever. I can't speak for Win98. Again, I highly recommend it to anyone interested.