Mark Russinovich has a great write-up on the new Antispyware Conspiracy. These so called "antispyware" products are pure danger and most of the times are far worse than the spyware they claim to find. This should be a good wake-up call to those users out there that fall for these types of tricks.
Stick to the popular and well-known products - Spysweeper, Counterspy, Ad-Aware, Microsoft Antispyware & SpyBot S&D.
Professionals also use more expert tools like HiJackThis. But due to damage that can be caused by this tools, only experienced people should go beyond the six stated above.
Dan Hubbard of Websense stated on the FunSec mailing list that they are tracking several of these fake antispyware programs at not just making you pay for nothing. Some are going a step beyond and planting keyloggers and traffic redirectors to steal credentials.
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