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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows 2000, Windows 7, Windows XP
- Date added: March 25, 2009
- Total Downloads: 1,632,342
- Downloads last week: 5,069
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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 on November 07, 2008
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 :Spyware Terminator includes Real-Time Protection, HIPS, and antivirus. Effectively remove spyware, adware, trojans, keyloggers, home page hijackers, and malware threats even dangerous threats like Look2Me, BetterInternet, VX2, and CWS. Spyware Terminator is easy-to-use, requires minimal PC resources, and performs ultra fast scans. Protect your computer with powerful real-time protection shield, advanced system scanning and safe quarantine for found spyware. Scan your computer manually or schedule full system sweeps. Perform in-depth scans of your computer's hard drives, memory, process, registry and cookies to seek out and remove all known spyware threats. Includes optional Web Security Guard which displays website reviews and threat level to help identify potentially dangerous Web sites.
Version 2.5.6.316 improves Review List.
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What's new in this version:
Windows 7 Beta Support Review List Improvement Installation Wizard Extension Spyware Terminator Service is now even more stable and reliable Spyware Terminator 2.5.6.316 is available in English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Hungarian, Czech, Dutch, Russian, Serbian, Romanian, Catalan and Valencian.
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User reviews of Spyware Terminator 2.5.6.316
- Average user rating: 4.0 stars out of 1264 votes
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Spyware Terminator 2.5.6.316
"Spyware Terminator problems with Internet Explorer"
Pros: Upon scanning PC Windows XP Pro with IE 6.0 and removing findings from Windows: Internet Explorer in HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer was unable to open any Internet pages until using System Restore to resolve issue.
Cons: Upon scanning PC Windows XP Pro with IE 6.0 and removing findings from Windows: Internet Explorer in HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer was unable to open any Internet pages until using System Restore to resolve issue.
Summary: This problem was submited to Spyware Terminator Tech support. We have unistalled this software from all our PC's for the time being as a safety measure.
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Version: Spyware Terminator 2.5.6.316
"Not bad, if you have an assistant to answer questions."
Pros: Easy to use. Removed most if not all viruses etc. Real time protection can be turned on or off giving the user a choice as to whether to manually scan or automatic scan capability.
Cons: Way too many questions to be answered as in terms of what to allow, what apps to run and whether you want soup or salad.
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Version: Spyware Terminator 2.5.6.316
"Too intrusive & needs excessive user attention"
Pros: The program finds lots of spyware!
Cons: Great if you have nothing urgent to do.
Summary: It probaly has great potential but not for me. Horribly intrusive & demanding the users attention to make decisions about what to keep and what not to keep. I wanted a program that made the bulk of those decisions for me and let me go on doing... read more >>
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Spyware Terminator 2.5.6.316
"Good Scanner but real-time protection is too intrusive"
Pros: Its scan for Spyware and viruses, it has an Internet immunizer and many easy to use scanning options like scanning for potentially malicious cookies and IE favorites.The real-time protection and automatic start-up are easy to disable.
Cons: Real-time protection is to intrusive and may stop good applications like Spyware Doctor from starting up.The real-time protection is similar to Comodo firewall which constantly asks you to allow or block applications from running.One False positive.
Summary: It detected only one false positive in my computer inside ClamWin Portable.Avast detects one false positive from Spyware Terminator's Clam AV Real-Time Protection component.If you are going to use the Real-Time Protection I recommend you customize e... read more >>
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Spyware Terminator 2.5.6.316
Pros: None just a bunch of nightmares! I tried this in the past and will never use this again! THIS IS GOT TO BE THE WORST ANTI-SPYWARE PRODUCT I HAVE EVER TRIED!
Cons: Awful just awful. I had this and I contantly had problems with the host process windows kept reporting that it failed. Also my audio card was shut down constanly because of the host process. I never had problems before I installed this.
Summary: This seems to be loaded with false postives as it detected google desktop to be a trojan as well as svchost exe which is a highly important windows componet as a trojan.The web security toolbar is horribile as it constantly crashed internet explorer... read more >>
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