Review by Chawks

In my work I run into all sorts of computer problems. Many are caused by Spyware and Viruses. This product will not remove viruses but it will remove spyware.

For those of you who have not had the misfortune to run into spyware consider yourself very fortunate. Spyware comes in many forms but the most dangerous in my opinion is keyloggers.

A keylogger is a program that records keystrokes when it detects certain activities such as online banking and credit card transactions. Once the keystrokes have been recorded they are quietly transferred to the thief and used. I have a client who nearly lost $5,000 from his bank account due to spyware.

Spyware Doctor in my experience is the best product at finding and removing keyloggers and other spyware on the system. Most antispyware products disable the spyware but they do not always remove all of the programming code associated with the spyware. Spyware Doctor on the other hand appears to remove all of the spyware code. In fact, spyware doctor often finds two or three times more files associated with spyware than do competing products.

Con:nnSpyware Doctor at times really slows down the system. Particularly after coming out of hibernation on a laptop. PC Tools is currently beta testing an update that is supposed to improve memory usage and performance. If the free update improves memory usage and startup performance Spyware Doctor will be tough to beat.