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Spybot Search and Destroy is a FREE Award Wining antispy and anti-malware application from Safer Networking Ltd. Spybot’s strong database of malware, spyware and trojans protects your system from known attacks. The database updated on a regular basis and you can download latest definitions simply with the inbuilt updater for free.

Spybot also comes with double layered real time protections for browsers. The first one is called Immunize that protects your system from the activities of tracking cookies. This function also works with major browsers like Firefox, Opera etc. The 2nd layer protection of Spybot is known as SDHelper and it works only with Internet Explorer. There is another live protection comes with Spybot, which is Resident TeaTimer. It helps your system to get rid of unwanted downloads.

The interface of Spybot is easy to medium level. Scanning is quite simple like other related application. It starts just by clicking the scan icon on the SpyBot screen and after scanning is complete you can see a list of threats found. You can select and fix them. Also, there is an option for advance users and you can start this option simply by going to the Mode menu and selecting the Advance item. Here you can check and set items like Uninstall Lists, Startup items and many other things. Before changing any advance mode options make sure twice.

As a whole it’s a quite handy and very useful free application to fight against spyware, malware and trojans. Also you can download regular updates for free. Recently it is reported that Spybot Immunizer has few issues with Internet Explorer 8 which is on the way to get fixed. You can download your free copy of SpyBot S&D here.