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For example, the free anti-spyware product Spybot Search & Destroy offers a list of the risks it found on your system in its left pane. The application's design also makes it a bit unwieldy to learn about what you've found before you remove it. Under 'How to respond when a security risk is found,' there are three places where you can choose 'Ask me what to do.' Thereafter, when a scan reveals a threat, you'll see options such as removing, ignoring, and excluding from future scans. If you prefer control from the start as your default, you must go to Options in the top row of three buttons, choose Norton AntiVirus, then, under Other in the left hand column, choose Security Risks, then Actions. Fortunately, Norton backs up the 'removed' programs in quarantine, in case you disagree with its assessment.

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When NIS does uncover malware, the software assumes that you want it removed, rather than allowing you to make your own decisions. On the other hand, if you want to just scan for viruses, you can exclude spyware, adware, dialers, remote access, and hack tools, among others. Unfortunately, you cannot exclude viruses, worms, and Trojan horses, so you can't get around the glacial Norton AntiVirus scan if you just want to scan for spyware. NIS lets you configure your scan to a point. In tests, Norton (correctly) did not flag C-dilla, for example, a copy-protection file needed to run the Oxford English Dictionary CD, something another anti-spy program had marked for death.

The advantage of using signatures is a lack of false positives on files you need to run legitimate programs. It simply scans for known signatures against its spy program definitions, which are updated via Symantec's Automatic LiveUpdate, just as Norton AntiVirus definitions are.

Neither does it learn spy behavior and make judgments about what it sees. Unlike some anti-spyware, Norton's doesn't target cookies, which can clog a threat report and encourage people to wipe out useful settings at online stores. Norton Spyware Protection's forte is protecting against key-logging, screen-shooting, e-mail-grabbing spook-ware. Symantec claims the detection capability in NAV was rather limited but, with the introduction of Norton Internet Security 2005 AntiSpyware Edition, detection is more robust, and removal capabilities are expanded. Interestingly, some spyware and malware thought of as spyware including adware, dialers, and hack tools were already targeted by earlier editions of Norton AntiVirus (NAV). The new package is being called Norton Internet Security 2005, AntiSpyware Edition. The company added a new application, Norton Spyware Protection, to its mega suite, which already contained Norton AntiVirus, Norton Personal Firewall, Norton Privacy Control, Norton AntiSpam, and Norton Parental Control. Halfway through 2005, Symantec has given users a sneak peek at Norton Internet Security 2006.

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