What are threat definitions?

Threat Definitions is the total count of Threats that Spyware Detector searches on your PC. If your pc is infected with all the spyware that we have currently in our database, then total worm count will be lot more than this number. 

Spyware Detector Scan Engine deploys Advanced Spyware Removal Algorithms based on Pattern matching, enumeration and special code handling for difficult to remove spyware . These extra features ensure COMPLETE removal of all the traces of unwanted Spyware programs from the users PC. These functions also Heuristically find several new Spyware threats even though they are not  in our Fingerprint database. These special detections also add more worms to the count of total worms found on the users pc, on the top of the worms detected by the database.

Threats refers to all the main entries made in the File System and Registry by a particular Spyware Program.