SpyBot Search And Destroy Review
Overview:
SpyBot S & D is a famous anti-spyware program, and is developed as free project since 2000. This program had won lots of awards: World Class 2003 Awards, the PC Magazine Editors Choice and PC User Top Buy #1. Spybot has also been recommended by ZDNet, the Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, MSNBC, CNN. Trusted and recommended by many computer expert worldwide.
Main features:
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Able to remove spyware, adware, trojan, tracking cookie, worm, dialer, keylogger, hijackers and some rootkits.
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At the moment it scans at 433527 places in the system and makes comparisons there. Further SpyBot have 80647 detections rules and scan for 3250 single products.
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Real-time protection will block known malicious applications.
- Allow/Block registry changes.
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Weekly update.
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Good support included. You’ll get the support either using forum or http://www.safer-networking.org/en/contact/index.html .
Additional Tools:
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Secure shredder - delete selected private files so that it won’t be able to be recovered.
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Guard system Startup to avoid malware starting up with your Windows.
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Uninstaller info - information about all application that is already installed in your computer. You may uninstall any unwanted apps using this tool.
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Host file - Block access to known malicious websites
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Guard your browser and ActiveX objects.
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Tea Timer - block malicious process. Allow/deny registry access.
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Support different languages and even for blind users.
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Lots of spyware definition in the database.
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Lots of tools;
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It is free
Contras:
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The interface is not neat and attractive.
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Each time, you’ll have to update from different mirror.
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Only one type of scan, most anti-spyware these days have quick scan, custom scan or full scan.
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Scan engine is not fast.
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System resources can run extremely high with this product.
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Since it is famous, lots of spyware is trying and able to avoid from being detected with this.
Bottomline:
If you experience spyware problem now, this one is worth trying, since it is free. But don’t expect too much from it. Sometimes, it missed lots of spyware. It’s better for you to find other anti-spyware program. My rating 3/5.
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