Review by the bear

I have used the plain vanilla version of spysweeper for several years on my two XP machines. I have run several spyware programs including Adware (free version), windows defender (MS)(free software) and Spybot also free software.

I run spysweeper on two different XP machines, one several years old. The only annoyance I have found was that spysweeper will run during bootup on my slower machine really slowing down the boot up time. I disabled spysweeper to run only on demand on my slower machine.

I have never found spyware with any of my spyware programs as I regularly update their definitions and run all of them at least once a week. I keep XP updated with the latest security updates with the exception of SP3 as I have heard people have had problems with SP3.

I found customer support good and overall recommend the product. Definitions are updated regularly and there can be several free program updates through the year. There have been no issues (program hangs, etc)running the software.

Remember to disable the email shield checking if you have other software that checks email like norton. i found with my slower system that everytime i would send an email from outlook express spysweeper would run slowing down the system. I have zone alarm as my firewall and disabled email checking there also to keep my system from bogging down.

I run Spysweeper, Ad-aware, Norton AV 2007, Zone Alarm, and windows defender with no compatibility issues. The spyware programs are run separately on demand.