As far as I remember, it was originally POHM, Prisoners of Her Majesty. :-D

check out this picture: http://www.scripting.com/images/flippinTheWtc.jpg the link was sent by one of my American colleagues, I think it sums up just what he thinks of those f***ers

I use Boundschecker all the time, not only is it good for the stuff that's been mentioned, i.e. bounds checking, uninitialised memory etc., but it's really useful if you're doing a lot of COM stuff, as it tells you about objects that haven't been freed. One good thing about its integration with the IDE is that you can turn it on and off easily, and you can instruct it to ignore warnings and errors that you're aware of (it does do one or two dodgy things). Also, here in Europe, we get very good support, and CompuWare offer training on their products to. I tried the Mutek stuff, but simply couldn't install the demo version. In short, I think that the relatively small cost of Boundschecker is far outweighed by its usefulness.