Why my spyware guard application says Synctoy may contain spyware?
This is because Synctoy checks for software updates time-to-time. No personal information is send over the Internet. See end user license agreement for details. What type of data can be synchronized? See How do I synchronize 2 computers using USB drive? See How does the application handle deleted files and folders? Synctoy recognizes that you deleted a file or a folder from one location and deletes it from the other. See more details in the algorithm description. Why sometimes it’s not sure which version of a changed file is the right one? This behavior is by design. The reason is because we value your data and we use algorithm that guarantee you don’t lose your files even if system clock on your computer is not accurate (leading incorrect file modification times). To do that we need to collect information from all you computers, so you need to run Synctoy ones on every computer and after that it can be sure where the last version of a file is. But on first run in given folder Synctoy
