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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows 3.x, Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: March 05, 2009
- Total Downloads: 55,996
- Downloads last week: 722
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 90 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: Seth Rosenblatt on November 21, 2008
This spyware remover looks good, offering security fundamentals but its efficacy is hard to judge on a clean or already-secure system. Advanced System Protector aims to rid your machine of spyware and malware, and it's generally a pretty thing to watch. The interface has a classy bar of tabs across the top, although the central pane feels a bit cluttered by deviating from the design scheme with a big, green Start Scan Now button.
Below that there are three choices for the type of scan: Quick, Deep, and Custom. The Quick scan took about 23 minutes, while the Custom scan lets you opt out of Cookies, Memory, Registry, and Files and Folders, or select specific folders and files to toss in the pot. Advanced System Protector is sensitive enough to pick up tracking cookies, although there didn't seem to be a method for fine-tuning that. The scheduler was surprisingly impressive, allowing for scans daily, once, and variations in-between. You can configure the program to run at startup, to update definition files automatically, and create a whitelist of files to never scan.
However, Advanced System Protector lacks an integrated antivirus component, which more and more solo malware battlers are now building in from the get-go. The real-time shields components are also kept behind a deadbolt unless you upgrade to the paid version. Overall, program runs well for what it can do and shouldn't be hard to use.
Publisher's description
From Systweak :Advanced System Protector is a solution to detect and remove the malicious programs intruding your computer. It offers protection against deceptive applications that affect start-up programs, cookies, Registry entries, and files and folders to hide themselves in your system. Check for infections in all vulnerable areas and safeguard your hard work and personal data. With the vast database of spyware detections you can efficiently control low-risk annoying pop-up adverts to high-risk infections that can steal confidential data to severe-risk malware that can even format your system in stealth mode. Advanced System Protector scans for spyware, adware, malware, riskware, key loggers, trojans, sniffers, BHOs, exploits, worms, and monitoring programs. It tracks all the infections present on your system, shows severity of every infection found, removes all the malicious entries and protects your data from prying eyes. It further provides complete protection by blocking the programs you suspect.
Version 2.0.323.1836 features improved update installation speed and database loading speed with better detections.
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Version 2.0.323.1836 features improved update installation speed and database loading speed with better detections.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 3.2 stars out of 90 votes
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Version: Advanced System Protector Personal Edition 2.0.323.1836
"As far as I am concerned it's a kind of malware itself"
Pros: Very attractive looking, with strong claims of effectiveness.
Cons: Cannot be stopped from launching with Windows.
Summary: Before installing this I researched it quite a bit. Intended use: manually perform a full scan once a week (otherwise protect my Vista laptop with other, always-on, antimalware programs). I saw one online writer use it exactly that way, so have been... read more >>
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Version: Advanced System Protector Personal Edition 2.0.323.1836
Pros: There are no pro's!
Cons: It finds no malware while other programs I use do!
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Version: Advanced System Protector Personal Edition 2.0.323.1836
"Looks & works good. System goes down, it looses it all!"
Pros: The way it looks, runs, gets updates & doesn't bog the system down either during a scan or update.
Cons: If the system goes down, it loses all the updates, settings and data!!! It can also get knocked out!!!
Summary: I like it and yet I don't like it because of it's "instability" at times. WHY does it lose it's updated data (signatures) and the like? It always goes back to the date it was installed, and doesn't "remember" anything after that! Strange.
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Version: Advanced System Protector Personal Edition 2.0.323.1836
Pros: Even on "Quick Scan", it was not fast, but did not take 6 hours. It did find over 100 threats, but they were not "Severe" threats. Will do a complete scan later and see if it finds any "severe" threats. But it could mean that I am well protected.
Cons: So far there are not cons. There could be down the road, but for now as I said, unless you have an infection, you may never know how well something works.
Summary: Works pretty good
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Version: Advanced System Protector Personal Edition 2.0.323.1836
"One of the better Spyware Removers"
Pros: It catches malicious items that other program(s) do not detect (ex. Windows Defender & Spyware Terminator). Updates are frequent, which is good.
Cons: Unlike Windows Defender and Spyware Terminator, you have to pay to Enable the Shields (to prevent tracking cookies and etc.) from getting on your PC.
Summary: This program can easily replace any other spyware removing program that you have on your PC because it detects items that other programs do not.
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