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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: March 13, 2006
- Total Downloads: 1,508,306
- Downloads last week: 8,636
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 1264 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
This spyware scanner and removal tool does the job, but enabling some functions may cause slight slowdowns and it's not ready for Vista.
Spyware Terminator's crisp, clean interface uses simple buttons and tabs to operate and set options. The latest spyware signatures are automatically downloaded, and the real-time protection keeps baby-sitting to a minimum. Real-time protection monitors key spyware types and Windows objects, though slight system slowdowns depend on your machine. Those features and the simple scheduler will make this app appealing to novices.
Advanced users will appreciate Spyware Terminator's flexibility. Setting the sensitivity of various scans is as easy as moving a slider. Experienced users will want to enable the built-in antivirus tool, which extends the power of real-time analysis by comparing program code against a database of known viruses, Trojans, and worms.
From set-it-and-forget-it users to those delving into virus code, all will find Spyware Terminator flexible, simple, and effective, key measures of a good antispyware tool.
Publisher's description
From Crawler :Effectively remove spyware, adware, Trojans, keyloggers, home page hijackers, and other malware threats. Even dangerous threats like WebRebates, Look2Me, BetterInternet, VX2, and CWS. Spyware Terminator requires minimal PC resources and has fast scanning speed. Receive powerful real-time protection shield, advanced system scanning and safe quarantine for found spyware. Scan your computer manually or schedule full system sweeps. Scan hard drives, memory, process, registry and cookies for threats. Real-Time Protection guards your computer, privacy, and personal information from hidden threats before they run, stopping most threats before they install. Internet, System, and Application Guards monitor over 50 security checkpoints to verify any unknown activity.
Version 1.3.00.599 updates Realtime Shield and features general bug fixes.
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User reviews of Spyware Terminator 1.3.00.599
- Average user rating: 4.0 stars out of 1264 votes
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31 out of 43 people found this review helpful
Version: Spyware Terminator 1.3.00.599
"Recently de-listed off of Spyware Warrior. Awesome software!"
Pros: Its still free.
They have made the system agents tab really easy to work with (changed from version 1.2). You can enable and disable individual agents and set the sensitivity of the active agent in the program.
Since it was recently de-listed off of Spyware Warrior rogue list you won't see anymore bologna posts from some Download.com members about a Spyware Warrior rogue listing.
You can turn on the safe-program alerter. You can see when a program opens, even when a DLL registered and registry entries are added to the Windows registry...its awesome.
Program offers DAILY, automatic definition updates.
You can choose to have it integrate with Windows System Restore.
Cons: The program defaults to having it do a scan everyday. I don't think I will ever get to a point where I have to scan daily, so this is a minor annoyance which I have to change in the program settings.
The window still isn't resizable. The only time this is really an issue is when you are modifying the sensitivity of the system agents, as they don't seem to fit in the defined area for them.
For all you people who prefer a localized version of the program, there is a MENU for changing the program language, however it seems unable to be changed and only has a choice of "English".
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3 out of 6 people found this review helpful
Version: Spyware Terminator 1.3.00.599
"YOU CAN NOT TRUST THIS SOFTWARE AND COMPANY!"
Cons: Logically I think you should not trust this software and company! A "anti-spyware software" that has been on Spyware Warrior rogue list is something bad. You can not really believe that this company has changed "its soul" and suddenly wants to fight spyware with its whole soul? They play serious, I think. They want a better reputation, BUT THEY DO NOT HATE SPYWARE!! Because I do not think they are schizophrenic! Best Regards, Bjorn Lundahl, Gothenburg, Sweden
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29 out of 54 people found this review helpful
Version: Spyware Terminator 1.3.00.599
Pros: Recently delisted from the Spyware Warrior rogue list.
It has some limited effectiveness against older types of spyware and tracking cookies, and I really hope it improves. It would be great to have another effective and reliable anti-spyware application available.
Cons: Here is what Spyware Warrior has written on their webpage about delisted apps.
"That an application has been de-listed should NOT BE UNDERSTOOD AS AN ENDORSEMENT OR RECOMMENDATION OF ANY KIND. We still recommend that users consult the short list of "trustworthy" anti-spyware applications."
Personally I think that short list leaves a lot to be desired. *JMO* You get the point though.
Of all of the many ASW apps out there only a very few are really effective.
Scanners with ref databases like Spyware Terminator have been outclassed by polymorphic spyware, which behave like trojans, and if you really want adequate protection you are going to have to get more 'state of the art' about it.
Spyware Terminator is by no means state of the art, and it has consistently performed very poorly against real spyware threats.
I use Ewido Anti-Malware and Privacy Software Corporation's BOclean myself, in addition to AVG Antivirus, SpywareBlaster and HijackThis.
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Spyware Terminator 1.3.00.599
Pros: This is quite good, and real time protection, I also use adaware, spyblaster, defender, bazooka, all free. It even has an excellent registry cleaner, and found traces of programs, that my other registry programs could not find: see the listings of programs, and check if you have uninstalled them, it also gives descriptions for operations. It did find something after I had ran adaware.
Cons: It even asks if you want to uninstall it, when u close the real time shield, cheeky!
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Version: Spyware Terminator 1.3.00.599
"Detected Spyware that was hidden in my computer that no other program detected"
Pros: Spyware Terminator detected a trojan and a spyware on my computer that was hidden in my WIndows File that Norton, Webroot did not detect. To be sure it wasnt apart of a program or file i checked it with a help of a few websites. When i found out what those files did, i immediately deleted it. This program provides real time protection and is absolutely free.
Cons: Once i installed it, as it was enabling its real time protection for the first time, my computer rebooted. I am STILL not sure what was the cause, either Terminator or Memory Proccess Error. So i am rating this program a 4 star.
(This is jsut my opinion and expierence)
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