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Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Webroot Software Inc
Color: 1-user
EAN: 0667208643011
Format: CD-ROM
Label: Webroot Software
Manufacturer: Webroot Software
Model: 64301
Number Of Items: 1
Platform: Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 95, Mac, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows XP, Linux, Unix
Publisher: Webroot Software
Release Date: January 13, 2004
Studio: Webroot Software
Features:- Webroot continues to improve Spy Sweeper, and provides subscribers with regular enhancements to the application
- Detects, quarantines, and deletes harmful spyware
- Simple one-click spyware search
- Time-saving custom configuration options
- Protects against identity theft, browser hijackers, hackers, and more
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Powerful detection, quarantine and deletion. Spy Sweeper protects you with a sophisticated database of spyware definitions, the power to disable spyware, and the knowledge you need to analyze your risks
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
This program could not get rid of a few the adware I had and was slowing down my system. I uninstalled it but it removed some windows components. Some of my other appliaction wouldn't run no matter what until I reinstalled back the spy sweeper. Meanwhile, the tech support was completely unsupportive and wouldn't return emails.
Rating:  -
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
Rating: -
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.
Rating: -
I purchased SpySleeper to fix a recent infection in my computer. Although it detected and cleaned 2 trojans: trojan-fisher-bzub and trojan-downloader-zlob, SSleeper missed the trojan-spyware.webhancer. I had to use PC Doctor to detect and clean it.
Now I am having to work with Webroot online tech support to clean a final infection that it missed, and it has taken 7 days of trivial pursuit and poorly written quick fixes to get them to look at a scan and (hopefully) come up with a fix.
Phone tech support hold times are about 20 minutes as they are having to deal with significant Windows Vista compatibility problems with their product.
Although this product has had a good reputation, it is now asleep at the wheel in many ways. If you are trying to fix an infection you would be better off doing a Windows reinstall than spending time and money on SSleeper. Read the PC World recent review on antispyware to confirm what I have posted (poor infection removal, last place in overall ranking.)
2/25/08 update: It took 3 weeks to remove all spyware with ssleeper thru tech support. I have removed ssleeper from my active startup programs and use it only to run occasional scans after updating it. I do not plan to do anything with my computer during ssleeper scans because it slows to nearly lockup speed when a scan is running. Also, after definition updates, ssleeper automatically opens a new browser window that advertises the webroot antivirus product (kind of like what adware does!)
Pitty the poor people who do not read the more current reviews of this product before buying (amazon, your default should be to display most current reviews first.)
Rating:  -
SpySweeper has kept my 5 home networked PCs free of Spyware for the last four years. Nonetheless, every year, I have tried a competitor when my subscription to Spysweeper has expired. Why do I try to replace perfectly effective spyware? Because it is PAINFULLY slow in pulling up websites, more than offsetting the small fortune I pay for fast DSL access. Why do I return to Spysweeper? Because the competitors are not yet effective in keeping the Spyware out to the same degree that Spysweeper does. As soon as I find a competitor that is as effective as Spysweeper and less piggish, I am gone. Until then, Spysweeper remains (alas) best in breed (although Trend for Vista is ALMOST giving it a good run).
Context: my machines are blazing, all with dual core, 4 GB of RAM, and hard wired with T2 access.
Hint: sometimes when I am really frustrated, I will disable Spysweeper for a few hours to cruise the internet and then reactivate Spysweeper to clean up the mess I have collected.
It is with great disappointment that I therefore recommend Spysweeper.
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