Spy Cleaner Gold 9.3

Spy Cleaner Gold is not one of the better anti-spyware programs we've seen. On our test PC it flagged the Windows Security Centre service as a trojan, suggesting that its database isn't particularly intelligent.

It discovered many suspicious cookies, but you'll need to trawl through the list to make sure you don't delete any you need.

Overall, the program has a rather unfinished feel to it. There's a basic real-time protection applet, but this doesn't remember your choices.

This type of program should try and reassure you, not scare you. There are much better solutions available.