Hello ambre,
could you please tell us where exactly you downloaded your spyware and which version you are using? There appear to be various verisons of commercial Spyware which call themselves Golden Eye , Spyanytime or similar.
Some spywares are able to detect when an anti spyware tool like Spybot S&D is running and shuts it down. Some are also able to stop the download or installation of Spybot S&D. They usually do this by checking the filename, process name, file handle, window title or similar.
I would consider any software that sabotages security software a malware and would not trust it. Since this malware is able to disable security software and can spy on local users , you have absolutely no guarantee that is does not do more harm or even spy on you as well.
Pleae consider these points:
- can you fully controll your Spyware? Disable it as you please?
- can you control if it has internet connections in background?
- can other users on your PC use it against you?
- are there other ways to remotely use your computer?
Hello Yodama,
I do not remember from which site I downloaded spyanytime, it was few months ago. the version I have is 2.43. Aparently it is as you mentioned, this spyware can control the instalation or running of spybot. I cannot install or run spybot if spyanytime is installed in my pc. It has to be totally uninstalled in order to allow me to install or run spybot. This does not happen with other anti spyware programs like ad-aware for instance. I realise that the "hidden" name of spyanytime was Golden eye because ad-aware detects it under this name. It install itself in the processes under the name of svchost.exe, but I know witch of my many svchost.exe is spyanytime thanks to an other program that gives me more details on the processes runing on my pc than the Tasks Windows Administrator", so I have a little control on it :red:. You are right, I have no garantees that it does not harm my pc, but I have it since several months now and I never had any problems, not even a virus (i have a very good antivirus)....but I know that does not mean that someday......something could happen, I am concious of it, I know I am using a dangerous spy program.
to answer your points:
- Yes I think I can fully control my spyware, I can disable it when I want and I can completely uninstall it when I want, I have done it several times already and apparently it totaly desapears from my pc, according to ad-aware, spybot (that runs only if spyanytime is uninstalled) and the processes.
- I do not know about the internet conection. It does not seams to have one, acording to the Task windows administrator, if the programs that I know of that use internet conection from my pc are off, nothing seems to work on my internet conection, and there are no suspicous boxes checked or unchecked in the settings of spyanytime, actually it is a very simple program to configure..........but I know, this does not mean that there could not be a "hidden" configuration...............so about that I am not completely sure
- nobody using my pc knows enough about computer to even imagine I have such a program on my pc

and on top of that there is a password to open it which I am the only one to know.
- I have disactivated the windows remote control (or what it is called), as far as I know, only if I want to, a friend of mine can entrer in my pc.............and I trust him.........and there is a password..............and I have to allow him before he can entrer.
I hope that spybot will fix this problem with those spywares that conflict with it, because it is a very good program