The two most common and most used spyware tools, Lavasoft’s Adaware and Spybot Search & Destroy have been cleaning infected systems for a few years now. Both still come highly recommended for your spyware combat arsenal.

However, an interesting factor has cropped up recently where Lavasoft has removed a large well-known adware vendor called WhenU from their definitions database. That means any utilities produced by the WhenU vendor will be ignored by Adaware scans. This is a very disappointing move for Lavasoft to make. Pest Patrol and Aluria have also failed to include WhenU’s set of pests in their databases. Lavasoft’s response to its removal was that WhenU software was no longer a threat. Many spyware experts strongly disagree. There are other cases of known adware/spyware vendors going after the creators of spyware removal software, which can be found under this list of litigations pursued by spyware vendors when their software was included in various removal utilities.

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