
The user can modify various scan and startup specific settings, set the program to ignore certain objects, schedule system scans, apply different skins or languages (Spybot-S&D is translated into 51 languages). Practically every aspect of Spybot-S&D can be customized. It uses extensive, regularly updated parasite definitions database, which contains signatures of spyware, adware, keyloggers, trojans, browser hijackers and other malicious programs.

The application checks the Windows registry, running processes, web browser cookies, local files and folders. It has plenty of functions and is absolutely free to use, although users can make donations to its author Patrick M.


Spybot – Search & Destroy is one of the very first spyware removers appeared in the computer security field.
