I should have read this first. I has the same experience. I installed the "free trial" on my new computer and it found a serious threat, that it would not fix until I paid. I politely (er, maybe not so politely) wrote to the purveyer, saying that telling someone there was a threat against them, but for money you will make it go away, is extortion.
Pissed, I uninstalled Spywarebot. It doesn't like to be uninstalled. The uninstall program automaticaly opens the "buy this trash" web page, so you have to persist and go back and run uninstall. Then I downloaded and ran Spybot, which found and destroyed the "spywarebot" spyware still on my computer. Don't know what it does since it wasn't on my machine very long.
Anybody know a good reason why a virus protection program would need to plant spyware on you?
