SpyBlast is a program that claims to detect intrusion attempts. (It may even do this; I was unable to check as it would not work for me.)

Distribution

Installed by ActiveX drive-by download, thought to be in pop-up adverts. The official site also encourages one to download it using the hoary old Internet Explorer trick of including a frame pointing at your C: drive.

Advertising

Yes. Opens pop-up ads periodically.

Privacy violation

None known.

Security issues

Unknown.

Stability problems

No.

Removal

Open the Downloaded Program Files folder in the Windows folder, right-click the entry 'SBFullInst Control' and choose 'Remove'. Next, open the registry (click 'Start', choose 'Run' and enter 'regedit') and find the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run. Delete the 'SpyBlast' entry.

Restart the computer and you should be able to delete the 'SpyBlast' folder inside Program Files.