Not all reviews have been positive and early versions of Spyware Doctor 5. We were also unable to learn more about each threat or why Spyware Doctor flagged each. Computer Security Wiki Explore. Wiki Content. Best Spyware Protection. Used by Millions World Wide. Detects, removes and blocks all types of Spyware. Easiest to Use Spyware Doctor is advanced technology designed especially for people, not just experts. What's New: Improved detection capabilities Spyware Doctor has been enhanced to improve detection effectiveness.
In particular, each individual signature created in the threat database is optimized so that it is capable of detecting multiple variations of malware threats threat variants while maintaining minimal system resource usage memory footprint. Swift clean-up for heavily infected computers Spyware Doctor is able to detect and remove threats on heavily infected computers faster and easier than ever before. In these cases, malware consumes computer resources so resulting in lengthy scanning and removal times.
Spyware Doctor is now armed with the technology to scan in safe mode faster and more effectively by forcing your computer to take a higher priority over the scan than the malware and other software attempting to run on your system. Improved Hacker Defense Further improvements have been included to enhance our own defense against malware threats attempting to interfere with the effectiveness of Spyware Doctor.
The new hacker defense utilizes a particular feature available in Windows Vista known as ASLR to make it difficult for hackers to exploit or gain control over Spyware Doctor. Software similar to Spyware Doctor 4. Malwarebytes 4. A product whose installation is quick and easy makes a very good first impression. When it comes to actual antispyware performance, however, it's still not as accurate as the best products—but it's getting better.
For the lifetime of the product, you'll get all program and definition updates—that's a good deal! Here's another good deal. The free for personal use edition gives you all the scan-and-clean power found in the Pro version, just without advanced features, like real-time protection and scheduled updates. You could use it for a "second opinion" to backstop your existing protection. I installed SAS4 on test systems infested with a variety of malware including adware, spyware, worms, Trojan horses, rootkits, and rogue antispyware utilities.
The initial signature update was quick, too, especially compared with WAV, which sometimes took 5 minutes or more. One of my malware samples tries to protect itself by preventing installation of many security programs, but it didn't manage to interfere with SAS4.
Some malware samples get their hooks so deep into the system that removing them halfway is dangerous. If a product's real-time protection or preinstall scanner damages but doesn't fully remove this type of threat, the system can become seriously unstable on reboot. And if a reboot is necessary before the first full scan, that's a big problem.
Since SAS4's installation doesn't require a reboot it completely sidesteps this problem—smart! On most of the test systems, the scan went smoothly and quickly, taking about 15 minutes. SAS4's attempt to remove rootkits caused a blue-screen crash on two of the systems. This kind of occurrence is common, and I solved it easily by rebooting into Safe Mode to scan.
SAS founder Nick Skrepetos reports that version 4. Spyware Doctor's scored 8. Spyware Doctor joins Webroot, Norton, and several others with a perfect 10 for blocking scareware samples in particular.
It detected percent of the rootkit samples and scored 9. That's very good, but Webroot and Norton scored 10 points in this test. In some cases Spyware Doctor's Behavior Guard offered to quarantine processes that, while not recognized as specific malware, were performing suspicious actions. To check this feature's accuracy I installed 20 PCMag utilities that hook deeply into the system, figuring an overenthusiastic behavior-based solution might erroneously flag some of them.
Above-Average Phishing Protection The BrowserDefender toolbar that's installed along with Spyware Doctor serves to protect users from phishing sites, too. I tested it over a period of several days using the very newest reported phishing URLs, running the exact same collection of URLs past Norton the consistent antiphishing champion and Internet Explorer 8's SmartScreen Filter. Actually, that's not so bad.
The average of recently-tested phishing solutions is 44 percent behind Norton. Poor Lab Scores It's not uncommon that a product will fare poorly in my hands-on real-world tests yet garner high scores from the independent testing labs.
Spyware Doctor swings the other way. In the latest on-demand malware detection test by AV-Comparatives. Products can earn up to 6 points for malware removal, malware blocking, and usability, with a total of 11 points needed to pass. Spyware Doctor squeaked by with One point worth noting is that these tests used the previous edition of Spyware Doctor. PC Tools touts significant enhancements to malware detection and cleanup in this edition, which is perhaps what made the difference.
Report Card Spyware Doctor logs all malware detection events and keeps disabled malware in quarantine. That fine a level of detail is great for reviewers like myself, but most users don't need to know the exact name of a threat that was removed or the list of related file and Registry traces.
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