In the middle of 2003, a page stealing the look and feel of our website appeared on spybot.com, illegally distributing Spybot-S&D. A copy of those old pages are still available in the Wayback Machine.
When complaining about that to the owner of the site, he applied for three trademarks for the name Spybot, two of them clearly describing anti spyware software. We even received threats that our product name was taken away from us.
Due to public pressure, Mr. Goff gave his word to abandon his trademark, using the trick to use the singular form to keep two other applications.
Last year, his trademark application was nearly registered, so we had to ask our lawyers to fight for our name. As a result of this fight, we have been signed over the remaining trademark application and the domain spybot.com, and this is why you now see our free Spybot-S&D and not some company selling competing products on spybot.com.
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