This is a software scanner for detecting a large range of malware in your system.

Spyware Scanner protects against a wide range of spyware threats that can send out your confidential information and affect the performance of the machine. This spyware scanner offers simple-to-use features. Comprehensive spyware detection and removal provides protection for a wide range of malware floating around the net. These cover spyware, adware, keyloggers, browser hijackers and other threats. The interface is simplicity itself. You can choose one or more options from among adware, dialers, BHO, flodder, downloader, RAT, keyloggers and trojans. Or you can simply say all which is the safest bet anyway. The scanner will scan for all these types. This has a low system overhead with a total install of only 35 MB and low usage of system resources. This should be very easy to use for even the most novice users.

The effectiveness of such tool really depends on how exactly the tool tries to detect the various malware types. The only way to find the effectiveness is to test it against results obtained from a known good scanner. You will need to use the scanner for some time and find if it is catching the problems effectively. There is another important consideration. You ought to find out if the tool is updated on a regular basis. That is an important consideration as the builders of these malware pieces are constantly changing their designs. Unless your scanner keeps up with these changes, it will soon become ineffective. This is a much like the strategy you use when finding the effectiveness of a virus detector.