Additionally, Spybot was recommended by ZDNet, the Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, MSNBC, CNN and other reviewers. Spybot also won numerous awards, including the World Class 2003 Awards, the PC Magazine Editors Choice and PC User Top Buy #1. Spybot used to be applauded for its ease of installation, free updates, and excellent features. In the Spybot license, Kolla dedicates Spybot to 'the most wonderful girl on earth.' Many believe that she is Kolla's girlfriend, but the title actually goes to one of his closest friends, who does not return Kolla's love, as mentioned in the help file However, the fine print of the license indicates a commercial distribution is maintained by Safer Networking Limited for any such use. Spybot - Search & Destroy is currently released as freeware. Development began in 2000 when Kolla, still a student, wrote a small program to deal with the Aureate/Radiate and Conducent TimeSink programs, two of the earliest examples of adware. Spybot was written by the German software engineer Patrick Michael Kolla, and is distributed by Kolla's Irish company Safer Networking Limited.

Like most malware scanners, Spybot-S&D scans the computer hard disk and/or RAM for malicious software.

Spybot - Search & Destroy (often Spybot-S&D) is a popular malware, spyware and adware removal program which works on Microsoft Windows 95 and later.

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