Is SpyZooka spyware?

Posted by Caitlin on April 30th, 2009

The following post in our Reader Question series is an actual user submitted question. To maintain the integrity of the original question, we do not edit or change reader questions in any way.

Q: Last night, I purchased SpyZooka. I have run it five or six times. During this session on the internet, I have 27 oops messages. I've been on for about an hour now. Is SpyZooka spyware?

A: We have not yet reviewed SpyZooka at NextAdvisor.com, so we can't offer specific or detailed advice on this particular software or its features. However, SpyZooka does not appear to be a Trojan horse, delivering spyware to your computer. We were unable to find any reviews for SpyZooka in reputable publications, but it has received high praise from some consumers.

Supposedly, SpyZooka is adept at locating spyware and viruses that other Internet security programs miss, so it is possible that you have either stumbled on to some malware in the past day or so, or that SpyZooka is simply finding malware that has already been infecting your computer for some time.

While we do not have reason to believe that SpyZooka is malware in disguise, we are not particularly familiar with this software and cannot vouch for it emphatically. To learn more about the Internet security software that we have reviewed at NextAdvisor.com, see our reviews and comparison chart.

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