On Sep 12, 5:41 pm, h...@not.here.com wrote:

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> http://anti-spyware-review.toptenreviews.com/

I was just looking at the "Detection and Deletion Capabilities"
section in the above link, and they are wrong about at least 2
products, Pest Patrol and Ad-Aware when it comes to removing toolbars,
at least one called "HotBar".

A friend of mine had a HotBar toolbar downloaded onto her computer,
and it was changing one of her email settings "send pictures with
messages".

I couldn't remove the damn thing because it wasn't even in the add/
remove programs, so I ran Pest Patrol (comes free with Road Runner) it
detected it, but would NOT remove it.

So then I downloaded Ad-aware (trial) and had the same results.

Then I installed Spy Sweeper, it detected it, quarantined it, and then
said I had to reboot to remove HotBar.

So when I rebooted the first screen that came up was a LOT of files
scrolling down the screen and I was thinking "I hope Spy Sweeper knows
what it's doing or I'm gonna be in deep **** when this computer
finally starts!", when it was finished, it started as normal and
HotBar was GONE!

Her mail with was back to normal and everything else was working
perfectly.

That was proof enough to me that Spy Speeper is a top quality tool and
I plan to stick with it.