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  • 1.0 stars

    "Messes up your system"

    May 6, 2006  |   By palomo

    Pros

    None

    Cons

    A lot. All the diabolic tales that you have read here are true.

    All hell broke loose when I t ran the first time and programs that load to memory at startup started misbehaving.

    Completely valid Keystroke tracking programs were inactivated, missing "DLL's" , etc... important files eliminated and what not.

    Lots, around 8-12, error messages at startup was like a bad dream come true!!! Panick time!

    What was it doing to my PC?

    -- After a thorough investigation, I knew I had to re-install a few softwares every time SD scanned my PC-- and I did it, for a while.

    When it started to impact other programs, I complained to PCTools. Their answer? Call your software vendors and they should be able to correct their "problem".. What????

    I could not believe what I was reading. They had no interest in knowing why Spyware Doctor was confusing the nice fellows with the bad guys and THEY COULD NOT VCARE LESS.

    There is also a "known" bug they have acknowledged. After a month, it started telling me that my subscription was about to expire!!! I sent an email and thE response was that it indeed was.

    Well, it wasn't. I had bought it a month ago!!! I have asked for a reimbusement and I have heard frOm them what you, READER, have. NADA. NOTHING.

    My recommendation? Uninstall. Uninstall. Uninstall. Uninstall. Uninstall. Uninstall. Uninstall. Uninstall.

    Don't bother to buy!!!

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  • Reply by EBathory on June 16, 2006

    I truly wish I had read this review before purchasing this software.

    My PC has never acted up so badly or run so slowly. It reboots itself, doesn't load a lot of stuff and sometimes runs at 100% CPU! I have checked out my PC using many other anti-spyware & malware programs and it is clean. All my problems started with the installation of this program.

    Listen to the above poster. Uninstall!

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