A discontinued software product that detects viruses, spyware, and spam by integrating multiple scanning engines from security partners in a single solution to protect Exchange messaging environments.

To detect spyware, computer users have found several practices useful in addition to installing anti-spyware programs.

It can be used to detect and remove malware, spyware and exploits, using both signature based and heuristic detection.

Some antivirus software offers additional features, such as the ability to detect and remove spyware.

In addition, almost all commercial antivirus software currently detect adware and spyware, or offer a separate spyware detection package.

Panda Security says it detects viruses, Trojans, worms, spyware, dialers, hacking tools, jokes and security risks.

And it makes it very difficult to detect spyware because you see all these processes running, and you don't know what belongs to what.

PestPatrol, for example, can detect spyware of the commercial variety, the kind hackers use and even some of the remote-control programs.

"In a roundabout way, we do detect traditional spyware," he said.

OptOut (grc.com/optout.htm) is an excellent site with plenty of information about online privacy issues and links to freeware like Ad-Aware that helps detect spyware.