TSGL: Spyware Terminator

[Don Penlington]

For some time now, I've been running Spyware Terminator as an active 
defence. I've been very impressed with it, both in its interface and its 
ease of updating and efficiency in warning me of potential spyware 
problems. I've tried many others, but usually they are either too 
intrusive, or not informative enough.  For me, Spyware Terminator has a 
nice balance.  It and Winpatrol are my primary active lines of defence 
against spyware.  They seem efficient, in that regular static scans with 
Spybot, AdAware and others rarely show any infection.

However, when running Zone Alarm's antispyware scan, Zone Alarm sees 
Spyware Terminator as a "Mild Threat" and recommends against it.  I cannot 
determine whether Spyware Terminator is actually in the ZA database of 
"baddies", or whether it is simply a heuristic warning.

Wilders Security did give it a rather inconclusive negative back in 2004, 
simply because of its somewhat tenuous association with another dubious 
software company, but they seem to have cleaned up their act since then, 
from what I can see on the Wilders forum.

Does anyone have any info on the real status of Spyware Terminator?  I 
don't have any  objection to it phoning home occasionally for updates or 
some innocent reason, which I suspect is what ZA may be seeing.   Meantime, 
I've included it in ZA's "allowed" programs, until I find out more about it.

I should be very disappointed---and surprised---if Spyware Terminator turns 
out to be a baddie. It is on nearly all reputable major download sites.

Don Penlington
 From the Beach at Surfers Paradise in sunny Queensland.
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