I've been using both Adaware and Spybot for some time and am so thankful that two fantastic, free programs are available to help me keep my pc clean. Its a shame the writer of the article didnt express that between the two programs you have quite a formiddable set of utilities. Its great that he has published his findings, I've run the same tests many times and achieved pretty much the same results. I cannot however fault either of the programs as it is up to the authors what it is they concentrate on removing. I'm very glad they have both concentrated efforts in some different areas as this has effectively spread the workload for the teams so they can make what they 'have' done better. Many many thanks to the authors, writers and contributors to both products, you have made my online experience nice again :)

I wonder what Spybot version they used. The latest Beta release -> Version 1.3 Beta 6 I've found to detect a whole load more entries than ever. I run Ad-Aware & Spybot 1.2 almost daily, yet after installing 1.3 Beta 6 & running it, it detected 29 problems. It's not up on the site yet though.