Anti-Spyware Hones Searches By Andrew Garcia October 10, 2005 In the long run, at least, eWEEK Labs believes that anti-spyware defenses are an appropriate and logical component of anti-virus security suites. Integrating spyware and adware defenses into the anti-virus platform can provide a single point of management; ease research, testing and deployment; and, ideally, scan, clean and block threats efficiently and effectively. In previous tests, however, we found some well-known anti-virus companies' integrated products were not yet up to the task, lagging well behind stand-alone solutions in effectiveness—particularly at blocking new threats from infecting a "protected" system. (A review of several anti-spyware/anti-virus products is at www.eWEEK.com/labslinks.)