We all know what the Internet is. Or at least we think we know. In simple words, the Internet is a network of networks. And, of course, this chaotic "world wide web" could be used for different purposes. Information, television, music, business - everything you could ever imagine has become virtual. And we're talking about big money here.

Many people use the network's resources without ever wondering what's behind every website and every browser gesture they make. Without ever thinking what precious data they store for some hunters of the web. They're all potential victims of money making leeches that use spyware in order to achieve their goals.

Spyware - Search & Destroy can detect and remove a multitude of adware files and modules from your computer. It also can clean program and Web-usage tracks from your system, which is especially useful if you share your computer. Modules chosen for removal can be sent directly to the included file shredder, ensuring complete elimination from your system. For advanced users, it allows you to fix Registry inconsistencies related to adware and to malicious program installations. The handy online-update feature ensures that Spybot always has the most current and complete listings of adware, dialers, and other uninvited system residents.

Spyware Search & Destroy is malicious software written to take control of a computer operation when online. Then, it sends your data back to the hacker (who can use it for himself or sell it to an advertising company, for example). It can also monitor the user activities for the gain of third parties. Along with the word spyware there are others related terms used to define these problems like the trojans, dialers, hijackers, key loggers, usage trackers, ActiveX applications.

So, if you use a Microsoft Windows Operating System and browse the net with its included Internet Explorer web browser, you are a high potential victim of spyware. The Spyware - Search & Destroy is quite a new kind of threat that anti-virus softwares do not yet cover fully I strongly recommend the use of a spyware remover to protect yourself from these threats. And when it comes to this, the front of this program is the best on its field.

This software comes with two mode interface (default and advanced). The default mode only displays the first panel of the program. Activating the advanced mode, you will see in the left side of your screen all the other panels, settings and tools included. If you are a beginner, you can simply use it in default mode without any real limitations.

The first panel gives you access to exactly what this software was built for; this could check and fix your computer for spyware problems. Any changes you have made to your system can be easily recovered, of course, if you made a backup; and you can simply prevent threats with the immunize function. There is also an update manager for the program and for its database, which can be automated to run at each program start.

The second panel is the "settings" one. You can scan for a certain type of spyware problems or just all of them; the program comes with a multilingual interface, has a scheduler and a skin manager and even a list of products and cookies that enables you to mark them as secure, in this way, the program won't remove them.

The tool set has a very useful "IE tweaks" option that allows locking the start page setting of Internet Explorer to user changes. It also features an uninstall info for all the software on your system.

The last panel "Info & License" displays a useful statistic of your scans and a donation request, only just to remind you that this is actually a totally free software.

As you can see, this type of software is a very powerful free anti-spyware software that has a lot of great tools to deal with almost any spyware that you can come across. Some spyware search & destroy can be nasty sometimes, but you just have to be patient, read and understand the basic and advanced tools before using them and you'll see that you will succeed getting them out of your computer. Always remember, protect your PC!