CounterSpy

CounterSpy is an antispyware tool that detects, deletes, and protects your personal computer from a broad range of malicious software. CounterSpy searches and destroys existing spyware on your computer, but it also has sophisticated protection against recurring spyware threats, reducing the chances of getting new spyware. CounterSpy is antispyware that gets its updated spyware definitions from three sources, including our own research team, Microsoft's own spyware research group, and directly from users, like you. In December of 2004, Microsoft purchased Giant Company Software, a company that made antispam and antispyware tools. Giant Company was previously a close partner of Sunbelt Software. Giant had granted co-ownership rights to Sunbelt for a previous version of Giant's anti-spyware product. As part of that agreement, Sunbelt has the exclusive right to innovate its own product. The new Microsoft Antispyware beta is based on the Giant Antispyware product. Microsoft fully owns its anti-spyware product that it acquired from Giant Company. In turn, Sunbelt fully owns its own anti-spyware technology, currently marketed as CounterSpy and CounterSpy Enterprise.

CounterSpy V2 includes the following new features or improvements:

* Smaller Memory Footprint — V2 now uses 75% less memory!
* Re-designed/re-coded scan & removal engine — Faster full scan times
* New heuristics engine for improved detections — Better removal of polymorphic threats
* Improved remove-on-boot capability — Remove locked processes at boot time before Windows boots
* New scan-on-boot technology — Scans known locations at boot time to remove Rootkits in our definitions
* Windows Vista — CounterSpy V2 now also supports the upgrade from WinXP to Vista 32 and more...

CounterSpy Beta Home Page