This year's update of Spyware Doctor has outdone itself when compared to last year’s submission. This updated enhances a number of previously mediocre features to make a smoother-performing product. Anti-Virus protection is a newly added feature, powerful sypware prevention, excellent detection and elimination success, and multiple specialty features. The installation is a little bit rough, but the end-result is a clean-running system - well worth any rough spots in the road getting there.
Editor's Assessment
* Improved protection functions
* Good handling of stealth-spyware
* Fewer unnecessary alerts
* Greater file control deletion
* Better risk assessment
* Excellent rootkit removal
* Reduced memory footprint
* Automatic threat evaluation
* Standardized threat assessments
The first install can be a bit rough, but testing shows that the end-result of a smooth-running system is worth this trouble. For one thing, testing shows that upon the first system scan, spyware id, and removal, multiple re-boots were required. Re-booting after a spyware scan is normal for any software, and for some people, Spyware Doctor may seem overly concerned with it. But it is for a good purpose. To thoroughly clean your PC of all spyware, rootkits, or other malware, a system re-boot is vital for the final cleansing. Once you have overcome this install bump, the rest of Spyware Doctor with AntiVirus 5.5 is great.
Joining the anti-virus with antispyware software is a great move as far as we are concerned. This means less resource footprints on two separate software programs. Less competition for resources, and only one sweep instead of 2.
Probably the best part of Spyware Doctor with AntiVirus 5.5 is its great ability to block incoming spyware attempts to down-load. In testing, Spyware Doctor was not fooled by previous attacks that tried to sneak in under changed names. And new spyware attacks were defused easily at the kernel-level. All were defeated down with ease by Spware Doctor.
AntiSpyware Features
* Spyware protection
* Virus protection
* Rootkit protection
* Continuous real time protection
* Full detection and removal technology
* Intelli-Scan feature
* Protection against zero day attacks
* Behavioral heuristic detection
* Silent running
* Low CPU footprint
* Automatic and updates
* Several awards
With anti-spyware and anti-virus protection well taken care of, Spyware Doctor offers a several more bells and whistles to round out the software:
Browser Guard protects you against attacks through browser add ons and setting updates.
Cookie Guard blocks cookies it deems harmful.
Email Guard blocks dangerous attachments as well as prevents harmful updates to email protocol settings.
Immunizer Guard prevents ActiveX attacks.
Network Guard prevents malicious changes to your network settings.
While none of these features are perfect by themselves, together they give the right move in forward thinking for Spyware Doctor.
Conclusion
Spyware Doctor with AntiVirus 5.5 is an excellent improvement over its previous version. Not only that, Spyware Doctor with AntiVirus 5.5 packs a powerful wallop against spyware, viruses, trojans, rootkits, and any other form of malware it comes across. If you get frustrated with the install, just be sure to follow through, and your clean system will thank you for the effort.
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