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94 out of 117 people found this review helpful
2 stars
Version: Spyware Doctor 5
"It's Not The Best Antispyware"
Pros: Good interface and user frendly.Updates daily.Good detection of spyware.
Cons: Trial version dosen't remove spyware.False positive scanning, it told me I have 5 high threat spyware on my pc when it dosen't have one.Realtime protection dosen't block spyware at all in the first place.Uses high amount of memory and my pc crashed couple of times.Too much ads saying it's the best antispyware when it's not.Get Spysweeper it's all most the best Antispyware solution.
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54 out of 64 people found this review helpful
1 stars
Version: Spyware Doctor 5
"stay away from this/dose not work on vista"
Pros: well i have been a pctools fan for 2 years stop using there stuff along time ago now this new version sucks all your programs freeze up and it give me a blue screen from hell.
Cons: still slows down your pc dose not work on vista or xp and second it installs spyware on your computer.. get spy sweeper its better no problems everything works good on vista that is
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69 out of 83 people found this review helpful
1 stars
Version: Spyware Doctor 5
"Like having a key logger on your credit card"
Pros: The uninstall worked
Cons: Stay away unless you enjoy reading the fine fine print of the EULA. Once you know it is in there you can did and find it but otherwise, along with the initial download and "one year subscription" to "protection", they give themselves the right to AUTOMATICALLY CHARGE YOUR CARD NEXT YEAR without asking first.
Go check BBB.ORG - I wish I had done that first.
Even if you buy into the idea that some companies are engaging in the automatic renewal practice nowdays, the effort that seems to have been made by PCTOOLS to OBSCURE this from the end user makes the behavior HIGHLY QUESTIONABLE in this case.
STAY AWAY.
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11 out of 13 people found this review helpful
2 stars
Version: Spyware Doctor 5
"Spyware Doctor is no good any more! Try Spyware Terminator!"
Pros: Very good detection capability!
Cons: I have a laptop Acer 3103 and Spyware Doctor takes so much time to scan my PC so I uninstalled it. I was silly to try the antivirus plug in and it only made the matter worse. I do not think a spyware scan should take that long. The same goes with Webroot Spy Sweeper; it also takes much too long. Spyware Doctor and Spy Sweeper have both very good detection capabilities but I consider them useless only because their scans, as mentioned, take much too long.
Because of the reason that I use Firefox I do not today receive any spyware. If I did I would try Spyware Terminator. Today Crawler Company seems to be a very good company which you can trust. I use their email program which is very good so try Spyware Terminator as it is also free. That is probably the best value you can get!
Bjorn Lundahl
Gothenburg, Sweden
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11 out of 24 people found this review helpful
1 stars
Version: Spyware Doctor 5
"This was the first anti-spyware application I ever bought."
Pros: But, now it's not worth it's weight in memory use. This application has a great GUI and is simple to use. It has a good scan engine, a large data base, does a thorough scan and will scan in safe mode. It has good detection and removal capabilities on spyware and trojans. It runs fine on "XP" and "Vista". But, it has to many problems to be worth an investment.
Cons: The free trial is useless. This application is heavy on resources, to heavy. Theres to many false positives with this version. And to top it off, should you decide to buy it, the first major update will install an anti-virus module. the whole thing is a waste of time.
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