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The thread’s main topic is what Spycar is—a benign, spyware-mimicking test suite intended to evaluate how well behavior-based anti-spyware tools detect suspicious activity on Windows. A key question is whether Microsoft Security Essentials would flag and block Spycar’s 17 non-malicious tests; the poster reports that it passed and stopped all 17 attempts. Overall sentiment is straightforward and reassuring, with users sharing results about their AV’s effectiveness.

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What is Spycar?
Spycar is a suite of tools designed to mimic spyware-like behavior, but in a benign form. Intelguardians created Spycar so anyone could test the behavior-based defenses of an anti-spyware tool. Spycar runs only on Windows, the same platform most targeted by spyware developers.
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This tool will attempt to run 17 benign tests to see how well your PC is protected.
My AV is Microsoft Security Essentials and passed/stopped all 17 attempts