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License:
Free
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Downloads:
43,576
- Operating Systems:
Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows 3.x, Windows 2000, Windows XP
- Additional Requirements:
No additional requirements
- Limitations:
No limitations
- Date Added:
March 05, 2009
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Publisher's description of Advanced System Protector Personal Edition
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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Editor's review of Advanced System Protector Personal Edition
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- "Pretty protection"
- Reviewed on: November 21, 2008
- Version reviewed: Advanced System Protector Personal Edition 2.0.323.1836
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.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 3.3 stars out of 77 votes
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Version: Advanced System Protector Personal Edition 2.0.323.1836
"This program won't install correctly"
Pros: Yes these people are pros at taking your money and running.
Cons: Customer support is a joke. In another country. NOT USA!
Summary: Be trying for 2 weeks to get what I paid for. All they do is tell you to uninstall the program and reinstall it and it still doesn't work. Good luck trying to understand their english. You know the drill. When opening the advance system protector th... read more >>
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Version: Advanced System Protector Personal Edition 2.0.323.1836
"GIGS OF GARBAGE HARD TO GET RID OF"
Pros: Showed me once again that programs here are NOT being tested.
Cons: Left no less than 20,400 items (3.5 GB!) including the program itself after a normal uninstallation with Revo.
Summary: Use Revo uninstaller. First, do an "advanced" uninstall. That will remove some of the components and registry entries of ASP, but the program will still be there (in the "systweak" folder of "program files". In Revo, click on "Hunter Mode". A li... read more >>
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Version: Advanced System Protector Personal Edition 2.0.323.1836
Pros: -Detects most of the bad stuff that most Anti-spyware programs can't find.
-Scans sort of fast.Cons: -Personal Edition updates slower than the pro version.
-No shields for the personal editionSummary: It found many trojans. password hi-jackers, malware , and backdoors that I didn't even know was on my PC until I used this program. Not even Malwarebytes, Spybot, or Avira could find the viruses. But the Pro version is much better that the personal ... read more >>
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Version: Advanced System Protector Personal Edition 2.0.323.1836
"User beware! Excessive false positives!"
Pros: None. Biggest piece of rubbish I have ever downloaded. Free or pay.
Cons: Ran a scan and out of 107 infections? three were legit.
My network is a backdoor Trojan.
Autorun.inf is a Trojan downloader.
A few FP?s ? no big deal. But this is dangerous and this is gone.Summary: My entire ?saved? folder For Diablo II is rated as an elevated risk! And calls it?.?Adware.Great-Mahjong?!
And diabloii.exe is a ?Trojan.vakiik.ass?. Don?t ban me CNet, that?s what it said
odbcinst.dll (Microsoft ODBC Admi... read more >> -
Version: Advanced System Protector Personal Edition 2.0.323.1836
Pros: it scans pc very well. before i have this product i doubted of installing this coz i trusted my antivirus so much (nod32). but when i decided to give this a try, i was shocked that it detected trojans and virus nod32 wasnt able to detect.
Cons: none so far
Summary: give it a try. its free to download today anyway. giveawayoftheday.com :)
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