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Product Description

Award-winning antispyware to secure your PC against privacy and tracking threats.

Spyware Doctor delivers powerful antispyware protection with minimal impact to your PC.

It defends your computer against malware attacks with multiple techniques using proactive, reactive, and automatic protection to stop threats at every entry point. Now includes memory scanning, behavior profiling, and protection report cards to provide up-to-date protection and status monitoring for your PC.

Powerful spyware removal software used by millions worldwide

PC Tools Spyware Doctor spyware removal software has been downloaded over 160 million times with millions more each week. People worldwide use and trust Spyware Doctor to protect their PCs from spyware, adware, Trojans, keyloggers, phishing attacks and other malicious online threats. Spyware Doctor defends your PC against malware attacks using multiple techniques, including proactive, reactive and automated protection to stop threats at every entry point.

Spyware Doctor has consistently been awarded Editors' Choice awards by leading PC magazines and testing laboratories around the world, including the United States, United Kingdom, Sweden, Germany and Australia. In addition, after leading the market with our free spyware removal scan in 2005, Spyware Doctor was awarded the prestigious Best of the Year award at the end of 2005 and again in 2006. Spyware Doctor continues to be awarded the highest honors by many of the world's leading PC publications such as PC World, PC Magazine, PC Pro, PC Plus, PC Authority, PC Utilities, PC Advisor, PC Choice, Microdatorn, Computer Bild and PC Answers Magazine.

Note: If you are choosing antispyware software, make sure you choose one that is proven and has genuine awards from one or more of the world's leading research labs, such a PC Magazine, PC World, CNET, PC Pro Magazine, PC Authority, PC Answers and other trusted labs. More importantly, do not use ratings from unknown spyware removal software review websites, as these are often designed to mislead you into purchasing an affiliated, inferior or rogue product.

Spyware removal, detection and blocking

Did you know that numerous free spyware removal software programs tested against Spyware Doctor detected only a small fraction of spyware and completely removed an even smaller amount? Also, most compared products were unable to effectively block spyware in real time from being installed on a user’s PC in the first place.

Spyware Doctor antispyware software makes sure you can safely connect to your online world. ThreatFire™ Behavioral Intelligence blocks threats faster than traditional signature methods. IntelliGuard™ protection monitors for malicious activity involving spyware, tracking cookies, suspicious ActiveX® objects, browser hijackers, keyloggers, Trojans and more.

Spyware Doctor has the most advanced update feature that continually improves its antispyware capabilities on a daily basis. As spyware gets more complex to avoid detection by antispyware programs, Spyware Doctor responds with new technology to stay one step ahead. With multilayered browsing protection, Spyware Doctor protects against web-based attacks including phishing attempts, scare tactics and silent automatic malicious downloads so you can stay online safely.

Easy-to-use antispyware software

Spyware Doctor has advanced spyware removal technology that provides essential coverage without slowing you down with confusing features. Intuitive State Awareness Modes detect how you are using your PC, adjusting to minimize performance impact. Designed especially for people, not just experts, Spyware Doctor antispyware software can be installed and used right from the start. This top-rated spyware removal software is automatically set for optimal protection.

Spyware Doctor's advanced IntelliGuard technology only alerts users of a true spyware detection. This means you won’t be interrupted by cryptic questions every time you install software, add a site to your favorites or change your PC settings. Messages like these can be confusing and lead to undesirable outcomes such as inoperable programs, lost favorites or even spyware being allowed to install on the system. We've done the research so you don't have to!

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Editor's Review

PC Tools Spyware Doctor is a comprehensive anti-spyware utility that effectively scans and cleans PCs. This software has won many awards for its ability to find and defeat any kind of spyware. In fact, no other anti-spyware utility has a spyware library larger than that of PC Tools spyware doctor. This version of PC Tools Spyware Doctor includes spyware protection for up to three PCs; enough to cover the average household.

The software does more than just protect against spyware, it also seeks out and destroys trojans, adware, spybots, tracking threats and even the infamous keyloggers. These are all very serious threats that can result insubstantial financial or data loss. Aside from monetary or personal loss, these viruses also compromise system resources, thus slowing down the users computer. PC Tools Spyware Doctor seeks out and destroys all of these threats, thus restoring the system performance to a like-new state.

The main improvements made in this edition of PC Tools Spyware Doctor are internal adjustments within the program, therefore the main functions of the software have remained the same, thus minimizing the learning curve for regular users of PC Tools Spyware Doctor. Since the software is specifically designed to deal with spyware threats, it is far more successful at doing so than the standard antivirus program. Every wise computer owner will have a competent spyware suite installed on their machine, especially if they run an online business or commit banking activity online.

The internal reworking of the virus base has made the software unsurmountable in the anti-spyware industry, as it now has the ability to recognize viruses that have not yet been cataloged, based on code similarities and variations that are commonly seen in spyware. PC Tools Spyware Doctor not only finds and destroys spyware after it has infected the computer, but it also does an excellent job of preventing it as well.

Since the utility uses minimum system resources, it can be run constantly in the background of the users operating system with little to effect on computer performance. In fact, it is recommended to leave it running at all times to prevent spyware attacks. By leaving the program running, users can prevent malicious executable files from installing on their system. Since this package includes 3 licenses, it is capable of protecting most households.

Perhaps one of the most convenient improvements is the speed of spyware scanning, which is noticeably faster in this edition. Spyware Doctor's long list of protective features, combined with its overall functionality and capabilities, have won it multiple awards since its release. In fact, many experts recommend this software over any other spyware prevention software.

PC Tools Spyware Doctor: What We Liked

Scan times are much faster, and the program consumes minimal system resources.

The preventative features of Spyware Doctor prevented every virus thrown at it.

The support for the software is excellent.

Is superb at suppressing threats, particularly the infamous keyloggers.

This edition is by far the most efficient version of PC Tools Spyware Doctor.

PC Tools Spyware Doctor: What We Didn't Like

Although the installation is simple, it can be a lengthy process on some computers.

PC Tools Support

Support for all PC Tools software can be found at the PC Tools online support center. There users can find a variety of helpful resources that pertain to every PC Tools software. Each software has a different selection of help sections, however all of them contain a FAQ sheet, a sales and general inquiries section, an educational knowledge base full of tutorials, and access to direct technical support. Users can also search for a specific topic using the search bar underneath the aforementioned sections.

About PC Tools

PC Tools specializes in the development, production, and distribution of security utility software for Windows and MAC OS X. The company has become an industry leader of security software, providing more than 15 different security software titles. Originally founded as part of the WinGuides network, the division was later rebranded as PC Tools. PC Tools is headquartered in Ireland with offices is the UK, US, Australia, China and the Ukraine.

Reviewed by Software.com

Protect your PC with Spyware Doctor.

Advantages

Fast scan times. Great support if you have questions. More efficient than past versions of Spyware Doctor.

Disavantages

Simple installation can quickly become time consuming, depending on your PC.

4 stars
By Anonymous
On 16 Sep 2010

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