Quote Originally Posted by md usa spybot fan;
NighTTripper:

Take up your complaint with Microsoft

Firstly the environment variable %ProgramFiles% variable points to Program Files directory, which stores all the installed programs of Windows and others. The default is C:\Program Files (English language).

Also from the following for example:
Isn't SpyBot good enough to warrant it's own folder? It's not the fault of Microsoft, but vendors, third party, that keep using this dump ground for their install folder. I'm not having a go at you, but pointing the fault in the right direction.

If I was a software vendor, I certainly would make sure my product stood out, instead of being effectively buried under a generic folder like "Program files"