Looking for an anti spyware review? Finding one is a tough job these days. Writing reviews has become a corner stone of affiliate marketing, and whenever you come across an "unbiased anti spyware review", with a great probability it is a pure hard sell, with no insider information given. Unfortunately, many of the anti spyware reviews are written by people who never bothered about looking at the software they pretend to be describing. At best, they throw in a screenshot copied from another website (often with watermarks), and list the features described by the manufacturer. Of course, the cons section is scarce or non-existent. How can they sell software if it has any flaws in design and program code?

If you paid a slightest attention, there are anti spyware reviews looking similar like two water drops. Same claims to over-deliver for the lowest price possible, highest spyware detection rate ever achieved in the industry, frequent updates, etc. In reality, the price is not a reliable indication of the performance of anti spyware program. Frequent updates are not typical either; while I know of several anti spyware programs which are updated several time a day to reflect the newest threats rinsing on the web (just imagine tech security experts working day and night to analyze the overwhelming amount of malware reports!), the vast majority of anti spyware products receive updates weekly at the very best. Though their sales letters may promise daily updates of malware definitions. 

As to the detection rate, it never peaks 100%. Thus, whenever you come across a statement of 100% spyware detection rate, it's a good signal to feel very suspicious about the actual value of anti spyware review. Respected PC security software manufacturers may occasionally use this 100% trick to draw attention to their products, but such claims usually are followed by an asterix, which leads to a footnote where the explanation of the testing conditions is given. In specially created conditions, anti spyware definitely can detect all of the threats, but these conditions are rather limited and artificial. The detection rate in-the-wild always is lower, and often unjustifiably so. A good anti spyware review should always clarify the testing conditions and give a short description of how the particular anti spyware program was tested, how infected files where gathered, what system was used for running the software, etc.

Those writers who create a really unbiased anti spyware review spend hours testing the chosen software, and provides as number of screenshots displaying the scan progress, detected threats, information tooltips, malware removing progress, definitions update progress, etc. A single screenshot, often taken from the manufacturer's website, is often a sign of fake anti spyware review. On the opposite, if you are given a chance to look at several screenshots in high resolution, which show not just the start-up logo of the program, but the software in action, then you may rest assured the author of the anti spyware review did a great work studying and testing the particular security software.

Pay attention to the side-effects of the reviewed anti spyware. When everything described sounds too good to be true, then it's very probable some great cons are missed, deliberately. Long start-up time, high CPU usage in idle mode, "frozen" scan progress window, missing manual – these things are usually never to be found in anti spyware reviews, probably because the reviewer didn't want to scare the readers. But these little missings, while having no direct impact on anti spyware performance, can upset the customer.

So if you're after anti spyware reviews, be prepared to be given a controversial and even obsolete information. To avoid frustrating experience, I suggest that you take a look at genuine anti spyware review page.

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