Spyware Doctor Review

Software Description: Spyware Doctor has been downloaded over 125 million times with millions more downloads every week. People worldwide use and trust Spyware Doctor to protect their PCs from spyware, adware and other online threats.

The good: PC Tools has recently updated their program Spyware Doctor and makes some amazing improvements. At the newly released Spyware Doctor 5.5, we find less annoying software glitches we experienced with its former version while picking up more malicious malware and potential ones that its competitors may miss.

Spyware Doctor offers a great amount of blocking from large content. No one program will detect everything, but this program detects more than the competition. In addition, Spyware Doctor offers lots of scan details for users’ reference, even more than you could expect. You can create “restore point” before any removal as well as receiving the OnGuard Protection that always does a very good job in protecting your system.

The settings are very clear for you to customize things such as, whether or not you want it to start when beginning your computer. The scheduled tasks of this program are also easy to figure out as there is a helpful step-by-step wizard walks you through all this process.

The bad: This program includes most aspects we are looking for in an anti-spyware program. In out trial scans, we found that Spyware Doctor flagged several harmless cookies as potential threats, something that are legitimate but may be undesirable to certain people. The frequency of it is much higher than any other anti-spyware products.

The bottom line: Spyware Doctor has a very appealing interface (it makes the operation easier for both novice and advanced users), and now performs even stronger protection since it has been updated. The update shows PC Tool’s thoughtful care to users even though many software companies just worry about making it great but not keeping it great. Clicking the browser default on the interface, you can learn more about the detected threat on PC Tool’s web.

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Detail Reviews Just come and enjoy the Internet worry-free with Spyware Doctor. Developed by one of the most famous Internet Security Company—PC Tools, Spyware Doctor including the most basic security features we are looking for, is a popular spyware killing tool among the market. The malware Spyware Doctor mainly detects and removes Spyware, Adware, Trojans, Keyloggers, Identity Theft, Hijackers, Tracking Threats, Rogue Antispyware, Unwanted Software, Phishing, Pop-ups and Bad Websites and many other malicious software. What’s more, Spyware Doctor can even detect out those potential threats hidden on your system.

Feature Set When comparing with any other similar products, you will easily find that the features in Spyware Doctor are not as many as products like Ad-Aware2008, (which also included on out Top Brand Reviews). However, the features Spyware Doctor provided are the ones you need mostly when killing malwares.

For example, the feature of OnGuard protection will leave your computer protected against spyware, virus and other malicious attacks real-time while the Computer Immunization feature protects your computer from being attacked again.

Ease of Setup/Use Spyware Doctor is extremely easy to use. The program is divided into four main categories, which help lead you intuitively through the program. When setting up, Spyware Doctor pops up a tab enquiring whether to install Google Toolbar or not. If you’d like to install it, just select the item and press next button to continue installing. The installation of Google Toolbar is optional.

Detection Effectiveness The great detection effectiveness is another reason why Spyware Doctor ranks so high. This program detects all the spyware and adware and removes them successfully as we tested. Besides, it offers all details of those items detected for your reference, by every time clicking each threat to open our default browser to a generic threat page of the PC Tools’ site.

System Performance During testing, we found no noticeable system slowdowns.

Scan Performance The whole scan of Spyware Doctor took around 10 minutes. Before any removal, you can create “restore point” to better protect your system. There is no partial scanning available.

Support/Documentation Spyware Doctor offers wonderful Smart Update and Help support on the interface. Almost all the functions of Spyware Doctor can be updated through the Smart Update process, and the frequent advanced updates also ensure that you are always protected.

Summary Spyware Doctor is a spyware remover and offers real-time protection against hundreds of malicious software. It can protect your PC easily and work well with Vista.