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- Price: Free to try (14-day trial); $29.95 to buy (Buy it now)
- Operating system: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP
- Date added: March 16, 2005
- Total Downloads: 11,380,293
- Downloads last week: 3,511
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- Average user rating: stars out of 1354 votes
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Publisher's description
From Webroot Software :With a 5-Star rating, this software continues to be the leading antispyware product available. Spy Sweeper eliminates the nastiest spyware and adware out there, like CoolWebSearch, Look2Me, SpecterPro, & 2ndThought. Programs that usually defeat all other antispyware products are no match for the advanced detection and removal technology of Spy Sweeper. Webroot led the charge in developing blocking technology to keep spyware from ever installing on your PC, and that leadership continues with the new ADS shield Spy Sweeper uses to protect against the oft-used Windows exploit, bringing its total number of Smart Shields to 12. Spy Sweeper also sports a supped-up scan engine that runs more than 4 times faster than before. And with even more and better options in this latest version, Spy Sweeper has never been easier to run. So to protect yourself from adware, keyloggers, Trojans, and other undesired spyware programs, we recommend this simple and effective software. FREE DOWNLOAD.
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User reviews of Webroot Spy Sweeper 4.0
- Average user rating: 3.4 stars out of 1354 votes
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66 out of 93 people found this review helpful
Version: Webroot Spy Sweeper 4.0
Pros: I personally feel that Weebroots Spysweeper is the very best spyware remover on the internet.I have downloaded and tried 38 spyware removers and Spysweeper is my favorite. It can get rid of any kind of spyware and adware that infects your pc. It also has a good startup manager feature, and guards your IE favorites menu. It also updates often and has a great help and support center. I highly recommend Webroots Spysweeper to clean infections and speed up your pc. 5 Stars and TWO thumbs UP!
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6 out of 9 people found this review helpful
Version: Webroot Spy Sweeper 4.0
"Intuitive, easy to use interface and thorough scanning"
Pros: 1. it has a clean interface
2. scans deeply and finds more spyware than any other spyware program i have used
3. shields are pretty useful
Cons: 1. takes up some RAM. It uses less RAM to scan than many other spyware programs i've used but it still slightly slows down the computer sometimes.
2. It takes a relatively long time to scan
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5 out of 15 people found this review helpful
Version: Webroot Spy Sweeper 4.0
"Not the best, but one of the greatest!"
Pros: It's very effective! It has a spyware-watcher running on background everytime you start Windows unless its disabled. It scans for a long time, but it seems pretty thorough. It has an easy-to-understand interface. When it cleans malware it never leaves a single trace of them, or at least on the malware that I had. But I never considered it the best, no. I like Ad-Aware SE Professional better. That's what I bought, and CA eTrust PestPatrol. I actually like them better. I bought them both. And I also have Spybot - S&D in my PC. I recommend them better, though this is a great; worthy alternative.
Cons: It takes up a lot of memory. But it's still nice.
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3 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Version: Webroot Spy Sweeper 4.0
Pros: A few years ago, when I had a nasty and vexing piece of spyware on my system, a lot of anti-spyware tools were able to find it. SpySweeper was the only one that was able to *remove* it. I purchased the product immediately. Since then, I simply haven't had spyware on my system.
Cons: It takes up a pretty big chunk of memory and it slows down my system start-up time considerably. A small price to pay for the peace of mind the product provides, but I would like to see the SpySweeper developers work on making the program lean and mean.
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8 out of 12 people found this review helpful
Version: Webroot Spy Sweeper 4.0
Cons: Spy Speeper worked ok at first but after the 15th day the nightmare began. I had Spy Sweeper running in the systems tray and with Spy Sweeper running I could not open any programs,I couldnt open Outlook Express,Internet Explorer not one program would open. I would get a error message saying file path not found or temporary directory not accessible. That happened on windows XP and Windows 2000 the same error messages. On windows 2000 on about the 20th day I got the error messages and could not open or use any programs.
So I closed Spy Sweeper and all programs worked how they were suppose to. I hadnt had problems with older versions of Spy Sweeper just this version. Another thing I didnt like about Spy Sweeper is how slow it starts up and how slow it scans. I would not pay for such a buggy program like this one and for the same probablem on two different computers that struck me as odd. Hopefully you find this review helpful.
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