Webroot Spy Sweeper - Windows Reviews

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Webroot Spy Sweeper - Windows Overview:

• Keep Your PC Safe from Spyware
• Browse Where You Want, When You Want - real-time protection by blocking known and emerging spyware threats as you browse - before they ever reach your computer and personal information
• If your PC is already infected, Webroot Spy Sweeper's advanced discovery methods locate and completely destroy malicious spyware that hides within your PC - even spyware that hides using rootkit technology
• Download Your Favorite Music, Pictures and Videos Without Spyware Intruders - identify slight changes in new spyware threats or variants to prevent spyware threats from ever installing on your PC
• Stay Ahead of New Spyware Threats with FREE Defense Updates - To ensure you have the most advanced spyware detection available, we constantly expand Webroot Spy Sweeper's definition database. As a Spy Sweeper subscriber, we pass this powerful spyware detection arsenal on to you through regular automatic updates.

Webroot Spy Sweeper - Windows Reviews

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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful Potential diminished by cookie reporting deficiencies, installation of 3rd party toolbar w/o approval, ill-advised sales nags., December 1, 2008 By  Reader - See all my reviews This review is from: Webroot Spy Sweeper - Windows (CD-ROM) This version of Spysweeper is somewhat improved over version 5.X. In particular, the availability of a "no extra charge" firewall, i.e., the Webroot Desktop Firewall, is a nice advance. It means that the chances of incompatibility between your anti-malware, anti-virus, and software firewall are now significantly reduced. As noted in my earlier review of version 5.x, Spysweeper was one of the first quality anti-malware programs available. Although there are now a number of free products with similar or, arguably, enhanced capabilities. So an important question is how does this version stack up. The software has not changed greatly. The interface is essentially identical. Full sweeps are still quite long, even on a quad core system with four gigabytes of RAM. Although one reviewer for an earlier version mentioned sweeps completed in 5-6 minutes, I've never had sweep times even approach those results for the earlier version or this later one. With this version... Read more Help other customers find the most helpful reviews  Was this review helpful to you?  Report abuse | Permalink   Comments (3) 8 of 9 people found the following review helpful Avoid this product, decent customer service available only for a fee, June 25, 2009 By  J. Olsen (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews    This review is from: Webroot Spy Sweeper - Windows (CD-ROM) I have been using Spy Sweeper for a number of years. I guess that it worked, because it said so. However, a few weeks ago I had a problem in that it wouldn't update. The first email response to my email request for a fix was in the form of a massive amount of FAQs. Free telephone support is available, but apparently there are so many problems with Webroot's products, that their telephone support is overwhelmed. I have called countless times, and the announced hold time has never been less than thirty minutes. In one instance, after the announced hold time was thirty minutes, I waited for forty minutes, and still nobody had picked up. Webroot's response to my second request for assistance merely instructed me to uninstall and reinstall the program. I followed the instructions, which included restarting my computer after the uninstall. However, I could not reinstall the program, and I kept getting an error message stating that the program was still installed... Read more Help other customers find the most helpful reviews  Was this review helpful to you?  Report abuse | Permalink   Comment 4 of 4 people found the following review helpful Improved, April 12, 2009 By  testing infinity - See all my reviews This review is from: Webroot Spy Sweeper - Windows (CD-ROM) I've run Spysweeper for years on a computer running Windows XP. But, for me, Spysweeper went wrong after version 5.5. I had to stick with older versions until version 5.8 came out and even then not every version of 5.8 was usable, and installing new versions often entailed a good bit of work. Through out this time Webroot tech support was less than helpful, constantly blaming me for problems of their creation. Webroot really likes to tell users of Spysweeper after a user has installed a newer version of Spysweeper that the user must uninstall Spysweeper, then run a special piece of software called Spysweeper Cleanup, and only then reinstall a version of Spysweeper, which still may or may not function properly. Now that version 6.1 is out (March 2009), most of the really big problems have disappeared for me. I run Spysweeper 6.1 on an old Dell laptop with with only a 600 megahertz processor and 512 megabytes of RAM, with XP Home as the operating system. That... Read more Help other customers find the most helpful reviews  Was this review helpful to you?  Report abuse | Permalink   Comments (3)

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