Pest Patrol Description:

Pest Patrol - Protection against non-viral malware - trojan horses, denial-of-service zombies, hacker tools, spyware, and adware.
Pest Patrol is a powerful security and personal privacy tool that detects and eliminates destructive pests like trojans, spyware, adware and hacker tools. It complements your anti-virus and firewall software, extending your protection against non-viral malicious software that can evade your existing security and invade your personal privacy.
Pest Patrol - The easy-to-use interface, automatic updates and extensive on-line research center make it simple to keep your computer clear of unwanted pests. A 2002 PC Magazine Five Star Utility, PestPatrol makes it easy to surf with confidence, knowing that your personal information stays private and your computer stays secure.

Pest Patrol - Discover the Hidden Spies On Your Computer :
Odds are your PC has spyware on it right now. When you receive e-mail, visit websites, or download files, these digital Peeping Toms can sneak into your PC and reveal your deepest secrets to unscrupulous hackers and relentless spammers.
Pest Patrol - is a powerful security and personal privacy tool that detects and eliminates destructive pests like trojans, spyware, adware and hacker tools. It complements your anti-virus and firewall software, extending your protection against non-viral malicious software that can evade your existing security and invade your personal privacy.
How does Pest Patrol differ from anti-virus products? Anti-virus products focus on viruses; Pest Patrol focuses on every other sort of computer pest, including ANSI bombs, answering machine hacks, carding, denial of service attack tools, disassemblers, virus droppers, hacking guides, hostile Java, icq, key loggers, mail bombers, password crackers, phreaking, surreptitious remote control, remote monitoring, network scanning, sniffers, spoofers, spyware, surveillance, Trojans, Trojan creation tools, virus creation tools, virus writing tools, and word lists used by password crackers.
As a result, Pest Patrol detects more such pests, and is much faster than anti-virus products.

Pest Patrol - defeats the threat by detecting and removing:

-Spyware and adware that "phones home" information about you, your computer, and your surfing habits
-Remote access trojans (RATs) that allow an attacker to remotely control your computer
-Denial-of-service (DoS) attack agents that can crash or hang a program, or your entire system

Pest Patrol - Probe tools that look for vulnerabilities on your system that a hacker can exploit PestPatrol#s easy-to-use interface, automatic updates and extensive on-line research center make it simple to keep your computer clear of unwanted pests. A 2002 PC Magazine Five Star Utility, PestPatrol allows you to surf with confidence, knowing that your personal information stays private and your computer stays secure.

-Scans all or selected file types, including inside archives
-Scans memory for active pests and kills the process
-Checks and removes pests from registry and start-up areas
-Reports all activities to a central log
-Downloads and installs updates automatically on availability
-Quarantines or deletes any identified pest
-Tells you the specific threat level of any pest found