But I'm not going to follow the pattern you came across on other websites. Instead, I will tell you something that you might be unaware of, but without this knowledge you are remaining an easy victim for scammers who literally abound on the web.

There's a profusion of websites that offer all kinds of best antispyware. But have you ever thought of what features you want a best antispyware program have? I'll try to create one for you right on the spot:

• Easy to install;

• Fast-loading;

• Automatically updatable;

• Easy to configure;

• Protecting my PC in real time.

• High detection and removal rate.

I intentionally omit the extra options like changeable skins to master the interface (yet it should be pleasantly looking and eye-appealing) or sound support. While some PC users find them important to suit their working environment (or simply because they like the software with all bells and whistles), I have reasons to believe they are unnecessary in insuring the decent level of antispyware protection.

But let's concentrate on the last two requirements.

Do you know that the concept of real-time protection is somewhat vague and different software manufacturers understand it quite differently? Actually, one of the reasons why different antispyware programs show different results in preventing spyware intrusions is that programmers understand the meaning of the "real-time protection" feature differently, and implement this function accordingly.

In most cases antispyware programs rely on a database of malware signatures to be able to recognize the spyware pattern in the incoming data stream. Malware signatures are loaded in the system memory (fully or partially, or at random) to initiate the process of permanent comparison of information stored in the memory against spyware patterns stored in the antispyware program database. This is a traditional approach to real-time protection, and it used to be pretty effective until…

… new types of malware took the Web by storm. This year millions of PC users became victims of highly intelligent spyware that easily fooled firewalls and antivirus programs.

Users of industry-leading best antispyware programs were badly disappointed by inability of the security software with latest updates to protect their computers against these new types of malware threats.

Fortunately, some lesser-known software makers quickly responded to the needs of PC users and released programs, who have rights to be referred to as the best antispyware of the new generation.

Ambitious software companies developed and implemented enhancements to their best antispyware solutions which leaders of the market didn’t bother to tackle.

First, they brought the concept of real-time protection mechanism to a whole new level. If other antispyware software gets updates to definition databases two or three times a week at best (often once a week), these new programs receive incremental updates several time a day, morning, date and night, holidays and weekdays.

Second, they waved farewell to the traditional approach of resident scanning, and replaced it with backguard scan. This new approach to analyzing the bytes of information in the system memory is based on a complicated, highly advanced technology of predicting the outcome of any process started. From now and on even unknown spyware, not yet described by malware definitions, will not have a single chance to do any damage to the system, because it will be blocked out of the memory immediately and neutralized by the antispyware.

Third, there appeared the option of sending suspicious files to security labs, where a solution for your particular problem will be developed and delivered to you by nearest database update.

Fourth, manufacturers went further and included a feature that is yet to be appreciated by users of antispyware. Now programs can identify and remove the threats that are not detectable by standard Windows instruments. New scan mechanism allows for detection of spyware on the level deeper than Windows File System (this is where 99,99% antispyware programs search for threats). This is a feature that allows fighting rootkits and similar malware, otherwise undetectable.

The three programs that really deserve to be called best antispyware are: Malwarebyte's Anti-Malware, a-squared anti-malware, and SUPERAntiSpyware.

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