Personal guard for your PC: Protection against malware and other threats from the internet. Ashampoo AntiSpyWare 2 offers twice as much protection as the previous version. Having run a full computer scan for possible infections, the program will remove the infected files immediately. A permanent active background scanner will notify you in advance and offer real-time protection for the computer. While connected to the internet the program makes sure that new malware won’t have any chance to enter your system through the back door. New Features

• Protection against more than 1,270,000 threats from the internet.
• Full compatibility with Windows Vista (32 Bit) from now on.
• Enhanced Realtime Monitor also takes care of new Windows areas (BHO, Winsock LSPs, Windows Hosts file, Autostart entries etc.).
• Hostsfile Checker reports suspicious entries in Hosts file and allows for cleaning up.
• LSP-Viewer gives support to the user to identify installed winsock attributes, by which means parasite programs can be smuggled into.
• Folders, files or even „infections can be excluded from the search to prevent false alarms thanks to the whitelist definitions.
• Due to internal encryption algorithms possible malicious threats are prevented from secretly adding themselves to the whitelist.
• There is a direct online connection to a malware database which gives information on detected infections.
• The integrated task scheduler has been fully integrated by now and it is possible to create, manage and perform automatically individual scanning tasks.
• Three integrated skins adapt to personal customization of the program. Free trial for Windows 2000, XP and Vista.