my parents got xoftspy once, against my wishes so I did some digging and found out that some of the earlier versions of the software were confirmed to be faking results to con people into buying the software. The makers claimed to have cleaned their act but I won't trust them for a second.
The kicker, their PC was still slow after running xoftspy, it apparently removed 200 spyware. But for some reason left behind the extra IE search bar. I trotted down, installed ad aware and spybot, and between them, cleaned off 300 extra spyware that xoftspy didnt find. The PC was singing along after that.
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