How to test my antispyware

[Fragman]

Hello,

I am using an firewall and anti-spyware to protect my system from risk and threats but my system gets affected after installing antispyware and I format my system just because of those risk.

I am going to traverse from another antispyware but before that i have a question,How to test the spyware means how can I find the efficiency of the antispyware software because I can choose best one for myself.Please post your ideas for me.

Thanks.

[Milton.J]

Antispyware is used to protect your computer system against different kinds of unwanted components like pop-ups,performance related elements and security threats which is occurred by spyware and other unwanted software. For more protection of your computer system,you have to keep update your antispyware software with the latest list of spyware.

There is no any issue here to test the efficiency,you would keep update your software and check the efficiency and detection capability,you can execute the software to scan your entire system after the updating procedure.

[Spyrus]

Antispyware software is developed to keep secure your computer and its files from unwanted matters from outside.

There are different types are antispyware applications used for commercial purpose or home based computers,some of then are freely available on the net and others needs some charges subscription fees.

The testing of the antispyware are conducted in two modes :

1- The real-time protection mode,
2- disinfect mode

According to first described mode, the software proactively stops the spyware when it gets detected by them and the second mode describes that it is capable to remove all.

[Snake08]

Test environment

The antispyware software are tested on a system with a fresh installation of Windows XP Professional SP2, within the installation of all Windows Updates.

The antispyware applications test are conducted using the newest versions available with the up-to-date definitions installed.There should not be any other spyware applications installed on the system means the antivirus software.

The testing of the antispyware application is divided into different segments on the same system and each one is performed at a single point of time with the system's hard disk image reset to the same "clean" image before the antispyware application is installed.

[Zachary]

Real-time and Disinfect mode testing

first of all,just install the antispyware application and update it with the current updates available and apply on this and one thing more,you need to enable the real-time protection feature as on.

Then the testing starts after installation of the spyware onto the system and find out how fast the antispyware application is able to detect the security threads and makes disable the installation of the spyware and deleting the spyware from the system.