Product Description

With PC Tools' Spyware Doctor 2007, you've got real-time threat blocking, advanced system scanning and immunity from browser infections. Using Spyware Doctor, you'll protect your PCS against those threats to your privacy, and avoid being the victim of spyware, adware, trojans, keyloggers, spybots and other online dangers. It's the most effective way to handle spyware blocking.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3167 in Software
• Brand: Encore
• Model: 10990
• Released on: 2006-09-12
• Platforms: Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows XP
• Format: CD-ROM
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

Features

• Quickly installs and runs without interrupting computer activity
• Trusted protection against unwanted spyware and other privacy threats
• Continually improves spyware-fighting capabilities on a daily basis
• Automatically configured for optimal protection right out of the box
• Advanced OnGuard technology only alerts users on a true spyware detection

Customer Reviews

spyware doctor is a quack
It used to work before version 5, but now kills my PC. My only option was to restore to an earlier date. A ".dll" file was then missing and it would not automatically run - thank goodness. Version five point whatever is worse than junk. I was able to 'fix' my PC by 'restore', and when I downloaded SD again, the same thing happened. I don't need to download it a third time to prove to myself that is the problem. It killed the PC speed to almost nothing each time it was re-installed.

Spyware Doctor Ver. 5.5 a Disaster
I had used previous versions of Spyware Doctor for years without any major problems. I recently tried to install the 5.5 Upgrade and it resulted in a frozen screen, and hours of recovery efforts. You better know how to start your system in Safe Mode, and use Recovery Points when you try to install this mess. PC Tools does not respond to your service requests, and my Service Ticket has gone unanswered for a week. It's like there is nobody at PC Tools to help. My advice is to stay away from this giant fiasco caused by Spyware Doctor 5.5 unless you want to practice your system recovery skills.

Version 5 unusable
As of March 25 I'm having the same experience as others here: SD does catch problems other scanners miss, and can successfully remove some infestations other products do not. However while Ver 4 worked properly, with the real-time protection enabled Ver 5 slowed all three of my fully patched XP SP2 systems to the point where they are unusable, then eventually freezes the system. My advice is that if you MUST use this product to removed a specific infection you enable it for that specific purpose than immediately disable it afterwards.