

Corporate users are required to purchase a yearly license. However, the fine print of the license limits this to only free for private 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-S&D 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's hard disk and/or RAM for malicious software. Spybot - Search & Destroy, abbreviated as Spybot S&D is a popular proprietary malware removal program which works onWindows 95 and later. Remove this template when most of the Wikipedia content has been removed or the Wikipedia information is outnumbered by non-Wikipedia information. As with Computer Security Wiki, the text of Wikipedia is available under the GNU Free Documentation License. The list of authors can be seen in the page history.

The original article was at Spybot - Search & Destroy. Most of this page uses content from Wikipedia. Microsoft Windows, Windows Mobile, and Symbian Spybot - Search & Destroy 1.6.0 running under Windows Vista
