does anyone know if bazooka anti-spyware really works? it scans so fast it cant possibly be doing anything?

Q: im strongly considering removing it

A: Bazooka works but the reason that it runs so fast is that it's only searching for around ~500 different spyware variants, and it's not doing heuristics scanning like most of the other tools do. That means that it'll look for, say, a single identifying file from each piece of spyware. If it finds it, then it knows it's there, otherwise, it doesn't. You can perform 500 IfFileExists commands in an extremely short period of time. Same with Registry searches, Internet Explorer BHO's (browser toolbars) etc. which is why it runs so quick.

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