Like Spy Remover, Aluria's Spyware Eliminator has a faux Mac OS X look to it. The interface is well designed and simple to use, but we don't appreciate Spyware Eliminator's online-only help files.

Like many other programs, Spyware Eliminator can roll back changes made, including removed spyware, and update itself online. It also removes tracks representing browser histories and similar evidence of where you've been on the Web. A free version that performs detection but not removal is also available.

Spyware Eliminator detected and attempted to remove Cydoor and iGetNet, but despite several removals and reboots, they continued to show up on scans. Analyzing the files and Registry entries left behind revealed large chunks of b3d Projector, DownloadWare, PromulGate, and SaveNow.

The program did appear to remove Gator completely, and though we found pieces of the two key loggers we tested with (NetObserve and WinWhatWhere), they didn't appear to be running anymore. Spyware Eliminator didn't detect or remove the Trojan horse NetBus, but it doesn't claim to eliminate Trojan horses, only adware, spyware, and key loggers.