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Spyware Doctor

by Avanquest Software
Windows NT / 98 / 2000 / Me / XP / 95
3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)

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System Requirements

  • Platform:   Windows NT / 98 / 2000 / Me / XP / 95
  • Media: CD-ROM
  • Item Quantity: 1
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Product Features

  • Full access to all OnGuard features including the most sophisticated real-time protection tools available today.
  • Tools include:
  • Keylogger Guard to prevent malicious programs from recording your keystrokes, such as passwords and banking details.
  • Cookie Guard to prevent malicious cookies from tracking your browsing habits and reporting this back to an unauthorized third party.
  • Site Guard to warn against phishing attacks and prevent you from accessing suspected malicious sites.
  • Popup Blocker to stop annoying advertisements.
  • Full scan and remove functionality to rid your computer of unwanted spyware, adware, malware, trojans, keyloggers, spybots, adbots, trackware and other threats.
  • Regular signature updates (usually daily) as new threats are identified, to give you the most current and up-to-date protection.
  • 12 mths unlimited product upgrades to give you the most advanced, industry-leading tools as they are developed for the most thorough protection.
  • Friendly and fast customer service to help you with any questions, comments or concerns.

Product details

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  • ASIN: B000BOJ02Y
  • Release Date: 14 Oct 2005
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,667 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

Computer Active

Spyware Doctor comes with 12 months of free updates and support and is well worth the asking price. Overall **** [Computer Act!ve, Issue 206]

Manufacturer's Description

Anti-virus and firewall software does not protect against spyware and privacy threats. Spyware is commonly bundled with software downloads, attached to e-mails, or transmitted through networks so it can appear to be legitimate software. Once installed, spyware can be nearly impossible to detect and remove without the help of a dedicated spyware removal utility like Spyware Doctor. Spyware Doctor gives you the most advanced protection against spyware through:

Deep Scanning and Thorough Removal Spyware Doctor has multiple intelligent and advanced scanners designed to burrow deep into your computer to hunt out and remove spyware and other threats.

Comprehensive Real-time Protection OnGuard (Spyware Doctor's real-time protection function) has many sophisticated tools to prevent spyware and other malicious threats from installing on your computer. Prevention, after all, is better than cure.

Immunization ActiveX threats are installed via your browser while using the Internet. The Immunizer function specifically protects your computer against malicious ActiveX-based threats by preventing them from running.

Key Features:
Full access to all OnGuard features including the most sophisticated real-time protection tools available today.

Some of these tools include:

  • Keylogger Guard to prevent malicious programs from recording your keystrokes, such as passwords and banking details.
  • Cookie Guard to prevent malicious cookies from tracking your browsing habits and reporting this back to an unauthorized third party.
  • Site Guard to warn against phishing attacks and prevent you from accessing suspected malicious sites.
  • Popup Blocker to stop annoying advertisements.
  • Full scan and remove functionality to rid your computer of unwanted spyware, adware, malware, trojans, keyloggers, spybots, adbots, trackware and other threats.
  • Regular signature updates (usually daily) as new threats are identified, to give you the most current and up-to-date protection.
  • 12 mths unlimited product upgrades to give you the most advanced, industry-leading tools as they are developed for the most thorough protection.
  • Friendly and fast customer service to help you with any questions, comments or concerns.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews
59 of 60 people found the following review helpful
By P. Potter VINE™ VOICE
This is a slick product. It scans very rapidly and is easy to use compared with other spyware products. The only reason I haven't given it 5 stars is that it consumes a bit too much in the way of resources if you leave it running as a background task, even on a Pentium 4 with 512MB of RAM. But if you just want a spyware program to scan when you tell it to, then this is the one to get.

I had a problem with a nasty trojan on my machine, which was initially detected and blocked by a firewall. My virus scanner agreed there was a problem, but was unable to remove it, as the trojan kept re-creating the quarantined file. I tried several well known spyware catchers, virus scanners and security suites, but the only one that successfully detected and removed the trojan was the Spyware Doctor.

If you have a spyware problem, you can try the demo of this product first, which will detect but not remove the problem. Definitely a product worth looking at.

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65 of 67 people found the following review helpful
I use ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 6 and a free copy of Ad-Aware Se with all the latest updated spyware profiles.

I take security of my PC and home network extremely seriously, I haven't been bitten with a virus since 2001 when my hard drive got wiped (once bitten...) I run deep scans and virus checks on every pc at least once per week. Everything seemed OK.

Until I ran this application, it ran a deep sweep that took about an hour and located in total 58 variations of spyware (2 keyloggers, 2 backdoor exploits, the list went on and on) I used Spyware doctor to remove the offending files and have noticed a slight improvement in my system process time.

What can I say, I had never heard of this application until it came up in a PC Pro Review stating that if they could, they would rate it 6/5 stars.

They rate the application that highly that its' performance is used to compare against the performance of the anti spyware software that is bundled with all the current Internet Security packages. (none of them can beat it)

Conclusion: With this software and ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 6 I don't think I will be having any reason to worry for another long year.

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Seems good to me 30 Oct 2006
Spyware Doctor is huge step up from AdAware which I used to run in conjunction with ZoneAlarm but it seemed to miss things. I tried SpySweeper but it made my system unstable (XP SP2)so I abandoned it in favour of Spydoctor plus Zone Alarm plus SpyBlaster (passive protection) and the combination seems to keep most nasties off my machine.

All the heavy duty active anti-Spware software is very invasive of the operating system (it has to be to provide real time protection - Norton is the worst) and will slow things down on load and, sometimes, while the machine is in use. My solution to the startup problem with Spydoctor is to tell it not to load on Windows startup but to start it manually once statup is complete - it still takes time to load the various real-time protections but it does not interfe with the startup process. All in all, a really good product so far
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
SPYWARE DOCTOR VERSION 6.0
I have tried several different spyware programmes over the years but this is definately the best one by far. Updates are supplied a few times a week. Read more
Published on 4 Feb 2009 by Mr. M. C. Jones
Waste of Time
The trouble is with this is that is has never detected any spyware! I always ran Spybot or AdAware (both are free) before running this software and it has failed to do... Read more
Published on 19 Jan 2008 by Christof
Started out good..but what happened?!
I know Spyware doctor has saved me in the past and been a good doctor, but what happened with this version? It used to slow my system down, with my never pc it runs good. Read more
Published on 16 Aug 2007 by T. O
Better than Mcafee
I recently had a virus sent to my computer by email, and nothing would get rid of it. I was considering rebooting the system completely and starting all over again. Read more
Published on 16 Aug 2007 by Ms. K. Dearlove
Nothing special
It works but so do others. I found it slowed my system startup time considerably, my system is reasonable by current standards. Read more
Published on 17 Jun 2007 by D. J. Law
Waste of time and money
I bought this software: installed it and downloaded the updates.

Then the next day I got an alert message saying that the licence was going to expire in 24 hours. Read more
Published on 8 Jun 2007 by Smudga
Damn good piece of kit!
I am not a computer nerd just a person who uses the internet and I got a malicious hit which the free software did not remove. Read more
Published on 6 Jun 2007 by technophile
Failed to remove Keylogger
I bought this program to deal with keyloggers which were repeatedly downloaded to my computer. The program detected the keylogger but failed to prevent it being downloaded again... Read more
Published on 10 Feb 2007 by bill bog
good and easy
I had a problem with a bug which had infected my home page and kept changing it to their own encouraging me to buy their spyware product as my machine had an infection - of course... Read more
Published on 28 Oct 2006 by Mrs. J. A. Crilley
Good but not perfect
I've used Spyware Doctor for over 6 months. Seems slow to start up but once running is fine. Good detection and removal. Read more
Published on 18 Oct 2006 by Mr. A. R. Richardson
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