spyware doctor....

hi ..i just wanted to post for general info,that spyware doctor is a great program it just removed 3 trojans off my pc and instructed me alway through rebooting in safe and scaning.i have zass 6.5 and cs also on my pc..i just wanted to give this info to you all that might be interested...spyware doctor i a grat program.....

 

It's a nice program, I use it too. Then again, it is a bit of a resource hog and I don't think I'll renew it when it expires. I think the same level of protection can be achieved through freeware antispyware layering.

 

the trojan i caught was backdoor.graybird.gen..also what do you think about counter spy?...

 

CS is quite heavy on memory resources.

for a paid antispyware, id pick superantispyware pro and for free id pick spyware terminator (realtime) and superantispyware (ondemand).

 

thanks...

 

Yes Spyware Terminator seems good and it has realtime. So does Windows Defender. SUPERantispyware is great for on-demand.

 

On my PC I installed free version of SD and it was taking much time to load on boot so I just removed it. I wonder is it a universal issue with SD?

 

Yes it is. It does slow down boot considerably. It takes about a minute by itself to load.

 

That's because Spyware Doctor has to go through it's little startup dance.

As you're booting up your PC, bring up Windows Task Manager and you'll see that Spyware Doctor HAS already loaded....it's just doing and completing a scan (Hosts, LSP, etc.) before the icon loads in the system tray. Oh, and it will be using about 60+MB of memory and quite a bit of your CPU as it's scanning as well. That's one reason it is such a memory hog, is because it doesn't seem to "release" the memory very well. But once it's finished it's scan and is loaded in the sys tray, if you open the interface from the sys tray by clicking on it and then closing it out by clicking on the X, you'll see the memory usage drop considerably......

 

Guys,

Spyware Doctor ad Spysweeper are still way better than any other AntiSpy programs. Both programs are resource heavy but you can tweak it to remove part of their programs to load and work faster.

Both programs are only programs that performs frequent updates (twice daily), but others I rarely gets updates.

I guess paid programs are better than freeones.

 

Can I turn off this feature? The scanning at startup?

 

There is no specific button for disabling scanning at startup, but the scan depends on what ON GUARD protection features are turned ON. On my system Spyware Doctor 4 never uses more than 35 MB of memory, even after adding the new hosts scanner. (IMHO) The resource hog issue should be judged against what other apps or processes are loaded during start-up or running real-time since there could be overlaps or conflict.