Free music with a terrible price
I decided to install Kazaa Media Desktop after hearing how cool it was. My God, did I make a mistake. It installed an unbearable amount of spyware, adware, and Trojan horses.
Spy Sweeper, Ad-Aware, Spybot - Search & Destroy, and Spyware Doctor worked as a team to remove most of the components, but they still didn't kill all of them. I even tried Norton AntiVirus, which detected two Trojan horses Kazaa's bundled software had installed. In the end, I had to reformat. I don't advise that anyone try Kazaa.
--Spencer
London, England
It's definitely a good idea to have more than one spyware-removal tool at your disposal. A few months back, Download.com's Jason Parker put five of the top spyware applications on the market in a head-to-head battle in our Spyware Obstacle Course. He found that not all these programs detected the same entries. For example, one program didn't detect pieces of the nCase component, and although one of its competitors did, it left other entries. By allowing a few antispyware applications to clean your system as a team, you have a much better chance of accurately snuffing out all offending programs.
--Download.com editors
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