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ZeroSpyware Free Edition

And now, a shameless plug from above: ZeroSpyware Free Edition is out.

If you hate discussions about these things or otherwise feel that self promotion is a craft reserved for vermin with the same number of working brain cells as tape worms, I’m probably not going to win you over with this next, somewhat predictable, statement: I think it stacks up against the best freeware out there.

This is typically the part where you see the writer drop marketing terms, and mention how many umpteen variants of malware the product detects. Or how the ones it catches are the ones that will render your PC useless for the greater part of the next millennium, whereas with other free offerings, you would be lucky if it tells you Minesweeper is running.

This isn’t the place for that. I respect many of the offerings in the market today, and I believe a considerable number of our competitors are building powerful products, innovating, and making the industry stronger in the process.

However, I also think that the landscape has changed drastically since the days Ad-Aware and Spybot first blitzed the free anti-spyware space. For the 2003 or 2004 era of spyware, their scan engines were mature, and they’ve generated considerable momentum because of that. While warranted, the inertia and press they’ve acquired were based on the landscape of the time.

In the past years, that landscape has changed drastically. Spybot, for instance, was getting killer reviews back in the day, and they’ve even topped the PC Magazine’s very respected list. In 2003. Recently, their detection’s been called closer to “decent.” Still not a bad thing to be, but a far cry from “the” choice.

Today, there is a very different landscape of security – a drastically different set of threats. GAIN is about to stop issuing pop-ups. Hacker Defender has stopped updating its software. Rootkits are on the attack. The popularity of the two are still warranted, but among a class of other working, and perhaps, more powerful, choices in the market.

ZeroSpyware Free Edition may or may not impress you any more than Spybot or Ad-Aware currently do. I don’t know. I do know that it offers a set of features that are unique to the free anti-spyware space. And it might be worth checking if there are things it can protect you from that others may miss.

If you’re interested, it’s available at Download.com, here.

By the way, it’s also available from Tucows here, and from Softpedia here.

Jeffrey Pe Benito
Writer
FBM Software


	ZeroSpyware Free Edition And now, a shameless plug from above: ZeroSpyware Free Edition is out. If you hate discussions about these things or otherwise feel that self promotion is a craft reserved for vermin with the same number of working brain cells as tape worms, I’m probably not going to win you over with this next, somewhat predictable, statement: I think it stacks up against the best freeware out there. This is typically the part where you see the writer drop marketing terms, and mention how many umpteen variants of malware the product detects. Or how the ones it catches are the ones that will render your PC useless for the greater part of the next millennium, whereas with other free offerings, you would be lucky if it tells you Minesweeper is running. This isn’t the place for that. I respect many of the offerings in the market today, and I believe a considerable number of our competitors are building powerful products, innovating, and making the industry stronger in the process. However, I also think that the landscape has changed drastically since the days Ad-Aware and Spybot first blitzed the free anti-spyware space. For the 2003 or 2004 era of spyware, their scan engines were mature, and they’ve generated considerable momentum because of that. While warranted, the inertia and press they’ve acquired were based on the landscape of the time. In the past years, that landscape has changed drastically. Spybot, for instance, was getting killer reviews back in the day, and they’ve even topped the PC Magazine’s very respected list. In 2003. Recently, their detection’s been called closer to “decent.” Still not a bad thing to be, but a far cry from “the” choice. Today, there is a very different landscape of security – a drastically different set of threats. GAIN is about to stop issuing pop-ups. Hacker Defender has stopped updating its software. Rootkits are on the attack. The popularity of the two are still warranted, but among a class of other working, and perhaps, more powerful, choices in the market. ZeroSpyware Free Edition may or may not impress you any more than Spybot or Ad-Aware currently do. I don’t know. I do know that it offers a set of features that are unique to the free anti-spyware space. And it might be worth checking if there are things it can protect you from that others may miss. If you’re interested, it’s available at Download.com, here. By the way, it’s also available from Tucows here, and from Softpedia here. Jeffrey Pe Benito Writer FBM Software Post a Comment Jeffrey Pe Benito's blog Add new comment