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Customer Review: Over Rated Anti-SpyWare
I bought SpySweeper when suddenly I was plagued with popup fake msgs telling me I had a virus and needed to buy the popups product.
SpySweeper could not remove the malware. The Help Menus and Manual were quite weak with only brief explainations and little real info. The SpySweeper online Knowledge Base is equally poor.
SpySweeper's phone line tech help can handle simple installation problems for their product but you must submit their online request form if you need 'real' SpySweeper help removing malware as I did. However, for and additional $99 you can get "immediate professional assistance." The online (free)process was competent and after 5 days of emails and special software scans the malware was removed. I now know that this is not uncommon when getting rid of malware using any of the Anti spware/Virus programs.
It turns out that these Anti-spyware programs often won't actually STOP intallation of malware. Rather, they will find it later during routine scans and TRY with mixed results to remove it.
You may want to consider a well known free program: SpyBot. It detected my malware just as well as SpySweeper but could not remove the malware either. SpyBot also detected and did remove several other items not reported by SpySweeper. SpyBot's online tech support was equally competent to the spySweeper people. In the end I chose to struggle through the problem using the Spysweeper folks because I had paid $26 for it and I figured they deserved to work through it with me.
Thanks for reading and good luck (honestly) if you have malware to remove
Customer Review: scumware that makes bogus identifications to sell itself
It hijacked my browswer and took me to a promotional website when I tried to uninstall it -- if it behaves like scumware, it is scumware in my book.
As near as I can tell, it does nothing but make users believe that it is busy catching "problems" that other applications don't. THAT is why it is getting positive reviews -- people are being snookered into believing that it is "better spyware" when it appears to do nothing but create false reports on a clean system.
I had turned off my firewall and forgot to turn it back on -- and ended up with one of those search engine hijackers that keeps morphing to make removal difficult. I found advice on some spyware forums where people will guide you step-by-step through manual removal procedures. Being lazy, I was looking for a quicker fix and followed the advice of those who had no technical advice beyond "go here to download SpySweeper."
This annoying application continued to make bogus identifications after I had successfully fixed the problem manually -- it kept identifying non-specific "generic" maybe-potentially-couldbe intrusions. (It also didn't correctly identify the cause of the problem in the first place.) That alone is annoying, but even more annoying is that after making these "generic" identifications, it said that I would need to make a purchase to remove them. When I finally got disgusted enough to uninstall it, it opened my browser and took me to its website to prompt me to purchase it! It behaves exactly like the search engine hijacker that I had removed about two weeks ago!
Others say it sucks -- I have less polite things to say about it.
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