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Please submit only spyware and adware detection, prevention, and removal products to this category.

Please note - We do not knowingly list rogue anti-spyware products.
If your product:

  • Actually installs spyware or adware as well as removing some.
  • Rips off parts of other legitimate anti spyware products.
  • Uses deceptive marketing techniques such as generating spyware detection false positives to encourage purchase.

then it will NOT be listed.

Sites are constantly reviewed and re-reviewed, and sites offered rogue products are de-listed.

If you notice one of the sites listed is for a rogue anti-spyware product, please post in the abuse reporting forum at http://resource-zone.com/ , citing your sources of evidence, and your allegation will be investigated.

Computer applications used to identify and remove spyware and other malicious software from a browsing or client system.

Manual Removal Instructions

Please submit only spyware and adware detection, prevention, and removal information to this category.

Please note - We do not knowingly list rogue antispyware products.
If your product:

  • Actually installs spyware or adware as well as removing some.
  • Rips off parts of other legitimate anti spyware products.
  • Uses deceptive marketing techniques such as generating spyware detection false positives to encourage purchase.

then it will NOT be listed.

We are currently in the process of re-reviewing listed sites and rogue products will be delisted if found.

If you notice one of the sites listed is for a rogue anti-spyware product, please post in the abuse reporting forum at http://resource-zone.com/ , citing your sources of evidence, and your allegation will be investigated.

Manual removal instructions of known spyware, adware or malware.

Product Reviews

Sites should have objective material in them and should not be clones of vendor information. Sites should review more than one product.

A limited amount of affiliate content may be permitted, but the reviews must be objective and not favour a product just because you have affiliated links to them.

Affiliate links should be clearly identified as such, not cloaked. And there must be sufficient additional, meaningful, unique and useful content to justify a listing.

Vendors that produce the software should continue to submit to the products and tools category.

This category is for sites that review and provide objective information about spyware and adware removal products and tools.

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