Monday, May 15, 2006

Stay Away From "SpywareCleaner"

Would you trust a program that claimed to be an anti-spyware program if it installed spyware on your PC? I don't think so. In that case you want to give an anti-spyware program called SpywareCleaner a wide berth ( I’m not going to link to it here, if you want to see it, do a search ).

SpywareCleaner comes in two versions, a free one that installs a program called WhenU Save, and another paid for version, that doesn’t. And here’s the catch, SpywareCleaner has been configured not to detect or remove WhenU Save from the system.

I wouldn’t touch this application with a 10–foot pole. If you want a free anti-spyware tool then check out Windows Defender, Ad-Aware, or Spybot S&D.

Suzi Turner has some good commentary on her blog at ZDNet.

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