Product Description

Winner of multiple awards from leading tech magazines, PC Tools Spyware Doctor¿ with AntiVirus provides the best protection against unwanted spyware, viruses and other privacy threats. Millions of people worldwide trust the Spyware Doctor brand to protect their identity and PC security. Features include: ¿Protects up to 3 PC's ¿Completely scans, detects and removes spyware ¿Integraded virus detection and removal ¿Daily live updates guard against the lastest infections ¿Deep scanning options allow you to thoroughly check your PC ¿Ability to quarantine and undo items that have been removed ¿Exclusive OnGuard tool monitors your PC for browser infections and tracking cookies ¿Simple and easy-to-use interface

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6125 in Software
• Brand: Encore
• Model: 14160
• Released on: 2007-09-04
• Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows, Windows XP
• Format: CD-ROM
• Dimensions: .4 pounds

Features

• Anti-spyware software protects identity and PC security
• Completely scans, detects, and removes spyware
• Integrated virus detection and removal; exclusive OnGuard tool
• Daily live updates; deep scanning and quarantine options
• Simple and easy-to-use interface; protects up to 3 PC's

From the Manufacturer
Winner of multiple awards from leading tech magazines, PC Tools Spyware Doctor with Anti-Virus provides the best protection against unwanted spyware, viruses, and other privacy threats. Millions of people worldwide trust the Spyware Doctor brand to protect their identity and PC security.

Features:

• Protects up to three PC's
• Completely scans, detects, and removes spyware
• Integrated virus detection and removal
• Daily live updates guard against the latest infections
• Deep scanning options allow you to thoroughly check your PC
• Ability to quarantine and undo items that have been removed
• Exclusive OnGuard tool monitors your PC for browser infections and tracking cookies
• Simple and easy-to-use interface

Customer Reviews

Horrible performance hit.
This product does superb scans. Finds and deletes stuff the other major scanners do not. However, your computer will lose a good 30% of it's performance. I have a quite new, fast ThinkPad with tons of Ram. This program is not worth having on a computer unless you can stand to feel like you are suddenly using a computer that is a few years old. Even when you disable active guard features, it's still deep in your system doing things that you didn't ask it to do, taking a huge performance factor off of your machine. The current edition of PC World (Oct 07) gives it a top review, but apparently, they don't review anything related to the performance hit. Further, if you google isssues about aspects of this program (search for swdsvc.exe for example, and you'll find there are longstanding performance problems with this program that PC Tools has apparently not fixed in the past year and a half. Unacceptable.

Excellent Product
I can safely say that this was an excellent purchase. I was hit with a bad case of spyware and adware about 3-4 days before I bought this product. I knew that there was something wrong because my computer was facing all sorts of problems such as extremely slow run time, dysfunctional internet, hundreds of banner ads (many of which were inappropriate), among others. I was only using Windows Defender at the time, and even though there was an obvious problem in my system's performance, it said that my computer was running fine, so I decided to open up the free subscription of Norton Antivirus that had come with my computer. It did a good job of taking care of the viruses that my computer had been assaulted with, but there were clearly more problems and even Norton said everything was running fine when it clearly wasn't. So my next step was to search Google for a good antispyware product, which was very hard due to all of the problems as well as my own insecurity at the time (A lot of the spyware popups were for phony antispyware products). Spyware Doctor by PC Tools came up and I downloaded the trial, which successfully rooted out all of the spyware that my computer had (which was much more than what Norton had shown). It would not, however, remove the software without purchase, so I went to Amazon to look at the product reviews, which were overwhelmingly negative. I looked for a program with good reviews instead, and found it in Sunbelt Counterspy. I downloaded the trial, which was a full trial and would remove any spyware found. I was appalled at Counterspy's lack of performance. It WOULD NOT download any updates (even when it said that it was in the process of downloading them), and found 0 problems with my computer (even though the other software had found many). I opted for Spyware Doctor and Antivirus, which I bought the download to online. At first, it severely slowed down my computer and I was feeling as though I had made a terrible mistake, but after all of the updates were downloaded and I had rebooted my computer a couple of times, the Spyware Doctor removed all of the viruses, spyware, adware, etc. and my computer (which is two years old) is running better than ever in terms of internet and general functionality, and I have not run into any problems since. I even deleted all of the other computer protection software that I had downloaded. It was a grueling struggle, but I think that this is one of the most effective products that I have ever purchased. I literally have 100 percent peace of mind while i'm on the computer now, a feeling that I have never felt before for anything.

Spyware Doctor
Excellent. No problems whatsoever since using the product in December 2007. I highly recommend it without reservation. One can depend on it,
trust me.