Spybot – Search & Destroy detects and removes spyware, and a relatively new kind of threat not yet covered by common anti-virus applications. Spyware silently tracks your surfing behavior to create a marketing profile for you that is transmitted without your knowledge to the compilers and sold to advertising companies. If you see new toolbars in your Internet Explorer that you haven’t intentionally installed, if your browser crashes inexplicably, or if your home page has been “hijacked” (or changed without your knowledge), your computer is most probably infected with spyware. Even if you don’t see the symptoms, your computer may be infected, because more and more spyware is emerging. The program is free, and there is absolutely no harm in giving a try on your system.

Spybot – Search & Destroy Beta 6 has a few key features that include the following; Windows 8 Security Centre support, modern and cleaned up user interface, updated help document and style, Master Boot Record scans using SDRootAlyzer, Installer now detects more recent versions of Spybot-SD, added Uninstall Wizard to maintain undo immunization or recovery, and fixed exceptions when scanning files on a network share.

This is still a beta version, and more changes are likely before it is finally released.

Want to check it out? Visit Safer-Networking.

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