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Webroot SpySweeper AntiSpyware - 3 User | 
| From: Webroot Software
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Rating:  50 reviews
Sales Rank: 3858
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows 2000, Windows Vista, Windows Xp
Color: 3-user
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Windows ME
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 7.9 x 1.7
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
MPN: 65210
UPC: 667208652105
EAN: 0667208652105
ASIN: B0009I5SGY
Release Date: April 14, 2005
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| Features:
| • | Use Desktop Firewall to monitor inbound and outbound traffic, be alerted to suspicious traffic and browse the Internet online in Stealth Mode | | • | Automatic Security Alerts contact your PC or generates outbound communication from your PC if activity is detected | | • | With Spy Sweeper you'll defends your PC and your Personal information with multiple spyware analysis & quarantine tools | | • | Quick Sweep offers a fast convenient analysis of your privacy risks, Analyze the spyware to make certain it doesn't cause damage and block downloads of more spyware | | • | Special installation license for up to 3 PCs |
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Product Description
With the Desktop Firewall/Spy Sweeper Bundle you'll block unwanted intrusions into your PC and defend it from the growing world of online threats. Webroot Desktop Firewall blocks will alert you to incoming traffic, puts you in Stealth Mode for PC safety and monitors inbound & outbound traffic. Spy Sweeper protects you from spyware and the dangers their invasiveness can lead to.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 45 more reviews...
 Good, but you need more than this September 14, 2004
Alexander E. Paulsen (Jacksonville, Fl United States)
49 out of 54 found this review helpful
Update 3/9/05
Webroot is really doing their homework. My suto update has me up to 3.5 which has nearly 69,000 definitions installed.
I stopped using IE in favor of Firefox so I had to stop using the Yahoo tool bar with Anti-spy, but trying other packages in concert with Spy Sweep so far Spy Sweeper has found more and been more thorough than any of the other anti-Spy products.
I am trying CA Pest Patrol on another system and will compare the two programs and update again. My experience with CA EZ Armor has been very positive so if Pest Patrol is along the same lines as EZ-AV and EZ-FW I expect to be impressed, but for my money Webroot has the best and most thorough product.
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I use this in combination with Ad Aware. Spy Sweeper finds items that Ad Aware misses and vice versa. The first time I installed the package I ran it and the system found several questionable items. I ran Ad Aware right afterwards and it found 3 more.
A few weeks later I did the reverse on my daughters computer. Ad Aware pronounced the syetem clean while Spy Sweeper found a keystroke logger.
I suppose no one package will do it all. Last week I ran Spy Sweeper and Ad Aware. Both said I was clean. The I installed Yahoo Anti-Spy and it found two items one was another key logger!
Webroot does have great tech support, and they keep the software automatrically updated for you. The latest has over 30,552 signatures. It does a good job, but there is no single package that will find all the spyware out there. I recommend using this in concert with Ad Aware or Yahoo Anti-Spy.
 A good product just got better July 8, 2004
20 out of 22 found this review helpful
Spysweeper by Webroot is now at version 3.0.
The good news........Webroot provided me with V3 under their
ONE YEAR of free upgrades AND updates.
Version 2 was good, but version 3 has a lot of cool new features, like all the new "shields".
So, when some Mal-ware program tries to change your browser home-page, an alert comes up and asks you if you authorized such a change.
Other shields include a HIJACK shield, IE tracking, IE favorites.
One especially neat one is the STARTUP ITEMS shield.
Before a program becomes a startup item, this shield pops up and asks you for authorization.
NOTE 1 : At this point in time, no single anti-spyware product appears to protect you from ALL potential mal-ware threats.
In fact, I have 4 different, FULL VERSION, products.
I alternate between these 4 programs almost daily.
There is a major amount of detection overlap but not a COMPLETE overlap. Each of the 4 programs finds stuff that the others didn't.
NOTE 2: I've debated folks in newsgroups about mal-ware detection s/w. Several folks comment that since there are FREE s/w packages, so why would anyone PAY for s/w?
First of all, remember, no single package detects every s/w threat out there (that I am aware of).
IMHO, the most indepth ones are NOT free s/w packages.
However, the freeware ones are good to an extent.
As for my personal PC's security, I use the following s/w packages: 1 firewall, 1 virus-scanner and 4 anti-spyware packages.
NOTE 3 : My favorites?
a. Spysweeper
b. Pestpatrol
c. Mcafee Anti-spy
NOTE 4: Watch out for wolves in sheep's clothing!
There are several "self-proclaimed" ANTI-spyware packages that actually INSTALL mal-ware onto your pc! You in fact, are shooting yourself in the foot by installing such programs.
 Beware of renewing subscription - resets expiration date January 28, 2006
M. Bishop (Colorado, USA)
20 out of 21 found this review helpful
I've been using SpySweeper for 2 years now. It generally does what it is supposed to do. However, it was nearing time for me to renew. SpySweeper becomes a huge, irritating nag when it comes time to renew. Not only does the software bug you all the time, but Webroot sends out reminder e-mails too. With 3 weeks left on my subscription, I decided to renew, mostly just to get rid of all the nagging. Well, guess what? - the renewal process reset my expiration date. Rather than giving me 3 weeks plus 1 year, the renewal starts immediately, and ends in exactly 1 year - which means, that I've been ripped off for 3 weeks of paid subscription. Maybe Webroot thinks their users are too stupid to notice this deceptive practice of moving up renewal dates. I've complained to them - and if they don't make amends, then I cannot recommend this product to anyone.
PC Magazine's Editor's Choice - with good reason February 20, 2005
The Rocketman (Los Angeles, CA)
17 out of 17 found this review helpful
Review of Spy Sweeper AntiSpyware ver 3.5:
Installation was trivial on my two-year old XP system and Spy Sweeper didn't conflict with other programs running, including Norton Anti-Virus 2003. It's possible to micromanage which features you want to turn on/off. If you insist on using Internet Explorer, this product is critical, although I prefer Firefox for my browser which does a better job with pop-up ads and such.
Even with Firefox, however, Spy Sweeper found spyware and cookies that Ad-Aware missed. On a full sweep, it takes something around 10 minutes to sweep your disk, so while it's not super-fast, it's not super-slow either and for the most part, you will be running this product when you aren't using your computer.
The license is good for a year's worth of updates and assuming Webroot continues to keep up with what's out there, this is a piece of software that will give you peace of mind for a very cheap price. Highly recommended.
Very Thorough but Unstable, Not Reliable as an Only Shield August 7, 2004
Matti Karinen (Singapore)
11 out of 14 found this review helpful
I installed SpySweeper on my Windows XP machine after I read a good review that discussed SpySweeper's thoughness. I have also used other Webroot software that works well.
Indeed I found SpySweeper is thorough, handling pests and situations not covered by eg Pest Patrol, and doing it better. The home page hijack shield is very effective. SpySweeper also found 7 pest nests where Pest Patrol only found 4 after a minor infection. Startup protection is also excellent.
But, SpySweeper is unstable, causes some erratic behaviors and technical support is not as effective nor polite as at Pest Patrol. Unstability: Spy Sweeper tends to crash a few times a day. Therefore I cannot really rely on it to be always there guarding my machine unattended. In contrast, through 18 months of use, Pest Patrol has never crashed. Erratic behaviors: A live SpySweeper on the machine causes some perfectly solid, established applications to terminate abnormally. Eg an ATT internet dialer won't run if SpySweeper is running. SpySweeper technical support first gave a "canned" response to the problem and after the problem was explained to them again, they have not responded any more.
I continue to use SpySweeper and I would buy it again, as it truly is throrough and effective especially against page hijackings and also when you run a manual sweep. It is a great "addition" to Pest Patrol, a pop-up blocker, a firewall and an antivirus for anyone wants to have strong and multi-layered protection. But at the moment I would not rely on it as a stand alone anti spyware solution due to its habit of terminating itself so often.
My comments refer to Spy Sweeper version 3.0.0 (Build 103) as of August 2004. I would expect a later version to correct the above mentioned issues. That would make SpySweeper a truly strong buy.
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