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Holistic Guidance - PC Tools Spyware Doctor 2008
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List Price: $29.99
Our Price: $22.89
Your Save: $ 7.10 ( 24% )
Availability: N/A
Manufacturer: Encore Software
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Batteries Included: 0
Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Encore
EAN: 0705381141709
Feature: Anti-spyware software protects identity and PC security
Format: CD-ROM
Label: Encore Software
Manufacturer: Encore Software
Model: 14170
Platform: Windows XP
Publisher: Encore Software
Release Date: 2007-09-04
Studio: Encore Software
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Features
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Anti-spyware software protects identity and PC security
Catches known and new, yet-to-be-defined threat variants
Fast, seamless updates ensure up-to-date protection
Installs and runs without interrupting computer activity
Straightforward interface; protects 1 PC.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Don't trust your spyware protection to just anyone. Spyware Doctor has consistently been awarded Editors' Choice, by leading PC magazines and testing laboratories around the world, including United States, United Kingdom, Sweden, Germany and Australia. Did you know that many programs tested against Spyware Doctor detected only a small fraction of Spyware and only completely removed an even smaller amount? Also most of them were unable to effectively block Spyware in real time from being installed on users PC in the first place. Spyware Doctor's advanced OnGuard technology only alerts you on a true Spyware detection. You should not be interrupted by cryptic questions every time you install software, add a site to your favorites or change your PC settings. Such messages can be confusing and may result in undesirable outcomes such as program errors, lost favorites or even spyware being allowed to install on the system.
Works silently in the background with low CPU usage Network Guard - New threats have evolved to attack additional network registry settings. Network Guard has been upgraded to include additional protection against these new threats and prevent them from interfering with your Internet connection by guarding extra network registry settings. Email Guard - protection against, and instantly removes, spyware and viruses being sent or received via e-mails. Supports all popular e-mail applications (like Outlook Express, Eudora and Netscape Mail and Thunderbird) that use POP3, IMAP or SMTP Designed for Windows Vista 32-bit, XP and 2000 Protects up to 3 PCs
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Rip off city.
Comment: I have never bought any product from PC tools BUT a 360 dollar charge showed up on my debit card with no warning at all. Now I have to spend a week getting a new card and take a hit to my credit as it caused my account to overdraft. I hate these people and will never buy a product from them.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Good once, bad five times
Comment: Spyware Doctor has had glowing reviews, so I tried it. On my computer it runs flawlessly. No slowdown at all. On my suggestion, five other people bought it and all--that is every one of them--had their computers slow down so much that they almost seemed locked.
Click an icon and a minute or so later, it responds. I could hardly believe it. I checked all five, and all had the same problem. Enable "Intelligard" and you are walking in frozen molasses. Turn off Intelligard, and you're running again. I searched their forum and found numerous complaints but no solutions.
It looks to me like there are five to one odds that this program will hurt more than it helps. I have to say thumbs down!
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Summary: STAY AWAY FROM THIS NIGHTMARE!!!
Comment: I will add to the barrage of horrible reviews. I installed Spyware Doctor also because of high praise by prominent PC magazines and Internet reviews, seemed to work well at first, catching several spyware items, but little did I know, it was sloooowly destroying my PC.
After not too long, programs wouldn't load, Windows wouldn't shut down, I couldn't figure out what the problem was, then I decided to do some trial and error, I uninstalled programs that I thought might be the culprit, nothing helped, until I uninstalled Spyware Doctor, finally my PC was running normal again :) Until I fixed my problem, I was ready to buy a new PC, I was so frustrated.
Bottom line, DO NOT install this, YOU'LL BE VERY SORRY!
Customer Rating:
Summary: A Total System Hog!
Comment: Spyware Doctor is Junk! It uses 100% of system resources when running and slows computers to a crawl. PC Tools uses negative renewal billing. Run, don't walk, away from this product!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Spyware doctor is not creating the slowdown problem
Comment: This is my story and i'm sticking to it.
Got a really bad virus/trojan/spyware called the (xp antivirus 2008), google it. I had Mcafee running and up to date the whole time. It went right past it. Totally took over the browser. I have had these in the past, again that got past Mcafee and it was pretty easy to download a free spyware program like spybot etc and remove it. Not so with the one above. It got to the point where I could not get on the web to download any other programs to try to find and remove, please note, I tried 6 programs and none of them even found the culprit. Spybot, spyware sweeper, spyware terminator etc etc.
I went to Best Buy and bought the Spyware Doctor based on the PC mags recommendation, on sale for $15 installed it and ran the scan. It found the problem in the short scan, after removing the bad items it found the computer immediately sped up and I knew it solved the issue, I then ran the full scan and it found it in a few more places. Spyware Doctor saved the day ! and a $200 bill for repairs.
I have the same slow down experiences described in the other reviews and have not yet resolved them. However, from what I have found the problem is Mcafee not Spyware Doctor. Mcafee and others like them have compatiblity problems that don't like other competeting spyware programs. Mcafee now wants to run a bleeping virus scan everytime I start the computer. Funny how it's doing that now but not when I was being attacked by XP Antivirus 2008. I am going to remove Mcafee and install a less intrusive virus scan. Please note from what I have read that this is a common problem with Norton, Mcafee and others. They don't want the competition and you can easily find a list of other spyware programs that they don't have compatibility with.
Ultimately you will need a program like Spyware doctor because the Mcafee's of the world don't always find the bad guys. Likewise you need them to do certain things the spyware programs don't. This layered effect to fight viruses, trojans, spyware etc is the way to go but they need to be compatible. So we have 15 reviews that want to blame Spyware Doctor but the real culprit is the compatibility with the main anti-virus program being used. Something that they themselves are creating because they don't want the competition. Good luck with XP Antivirus 2008 without Spyware Doctor.
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