hi!
a quick search on google showed some people complaining about false positives and I have seen posts where the company stated they were removing the false posities and they are continuing to make the scanner more reliable.
spybot and ad-aware do not detect many things and you need to try bazooka and giant spyware scanners as well
giant has put up an online scanner as well and I highly recommend giant software.
http://www.giantcompany.com/(a5v0knydpkblmy45cwhfn155)/default.aspx
according to a website on google, giant software scanner found things pestscanner found and removed them.
I am doing a pestscan on my computer but it has found nothing so far and is still sccanning.
bazooka spyware scanner is free but only reports what you have,
http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/index.html
spybot and ad-aware missed some that this program found and I believe it was due to the fact that those programs could not remove the threats safely and that is why they were not reported.
you also need to know that special monitoring software are not detected as viruses, spyware and trojans and these programs work off exploits found in the operating system
spector
and
e-blaster
and
win-spy are great examples of software norton and most major virus and spyware/ad-ware scanners will not alert you to.
also new trojans that are rising such as
beast that include dll injection fail to show up on all major scanners once the trojan is operating and the installers are deleted
you will need the latest program called trojanhunter 4 to find a running beast trojan
www.trojanhunter.com
system spy appears to be a commercial program for win95/98,
http://www.pestpatrol.com/PestInfo/s/system_spy.asp
additional info,
System Spy v1.00
runs in the background and records the actions of another user by capturing active window titles. Captured information includes the active window title, the times in which the window was opened and closed, and the total time the window was active. The program is invisible while running, and does not appear on the task list (Ctrl-Alt-Delete).
The captured data is stored in encrypted, dated files, and can be deleted through the System Spy interface, which can only be displayed when a specified text file is opened.
In addition, you can load the program at Startup.
if this was on your computer it would seem that someone with physical access between your chair and keyboard installed it
hope this helps
egghead