http://www.sunbeltsecuritynews.com/?id=27
So I sent them an email:
" I have to take serious issue with "Freeware Not So Free" note by "J.S" in which he/she intimated that SpyBot Search and Destroy "becomes infected with spyware" - and that he/she presumably un-installed it because of that.
POPPYCOCK!
SBS&D does not "become infected with spyware" - period. The only possible way to get a copy of SBS&D that already contains malware is for an ignorant/un-informed user to download a "rogue" copy of the software.
IOW, by NOT getting it directly from the SaferNetworking site itself ( http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html ) on the download page ( http://www.safer-networking.org/en/spybotsd/index.html ) and checking the MD5 of the d/l you get against the MD5 of the d/l on that page.
I'm seriously disappointed in you for even publishing such tripe. I've been using SBS&D for over ten years - I've only used your firewall program for less than two. Guess which program I trust more? Pete Yevchak (spy1)"
YOU might want to drop them a line, too! Pete