If your looking for an anti spyware program to buy, it needs to fill certain criteria before you hand over your hard earned cash. Fortunately most of the better spyware programs are all pretty much delivering when it comes to quality, performance and customer reliability. Before you buy see to it that the spyware software in question ticks of against all these points.
Add A Schedule
Be able to add a an automatic schedule that will scan your PC on a requested time and date. This will protect your computer if you forget to do it manually.
Protection Of Your Favourites Box
This is another devious way spyware and adware infiltrate your system by adding sites links and adverts to your favourites without you even realizing.
Immunization
An automatic blocking function that stops annoying pop ups that ask to be installed in the vain that they are there to help against spyware when in actual fact they are themselves. You may or may not know by now that although they pose as a legitimate window with an option in the top right to close, in truth, there is no close button. You press it and you have just installed spyware.
Browser Shield Configuration
Not all of us use IE, there are several other popular internet browsers currently being used. Make sure you can configure for all of them and that the spyware program offers automatic updates to keep up with the constantly changing browsers compatibility issues. Most of the good programs will offer this.