"Homepage hijackers, phone dialers, spyware, adware, oh my! There’s only thing more confusing than figuring out what is helping or harming you and that’s trying to figure out how to adequately protect yourself with the many spyware tools out there. One such possibility is SpywareStopper, a program that fights these programs by not letting them gain entrance in the first place. SpywareStopper comes with an extensive list of what it considers known websites and registry entries that could do the sort of damage mentioned above. "