Spyware Doctor 5.0 due to launch on Monday, Jan 29-2007.

I am excited about this product. In speaking with them at the PC Tools forum, memory usage is down, the slow start up time has been fixed, and the scanning engine (which was already very good) has been improved, and the product is totally redesigned under the hood (though the gui will look much the same). They added some new guards. The updating function now does incremental updates.

Sounds like they have improved upon an already very good product.

 

sounds good.
seems another compamy have learned that people dont want a bloated product so they fixed it.
can you post some screenshots of the resourse usage and gui when you install it?
any idea when they update there website with infomation about the new guards?

lets hope webroot follow suit and make spysweeper use less resourse to compete against spyware doctor.
they have been rivals for quite a while and i hope spysweeper can have less crashs than it has now lol
lodore

 

Does it still have the detect and not remove thing going on.

 

Are you referring to the free trial?

 

if he is then spsyweeper does it as well so it probaly does lol.
lodore

 

good to hear that...i have already forgotten spy-sweeper due to all the probs experienced by people here...
spyware doctor has always been better and good to learn that it has improved further...

 

we; spysweeper 3.0/3.5 was good but after that down hill.

i hope that the spyware doctor doesnt do the fp's in trial to fool people in to buying it thing then after you brought it it find nothing because it doesnt have the fp's lol.
i dont think the reviews pick up on it because they use the paid version and not the trial version that dont remove
lodore

 

just paid a visit to pcmag.com and read the review of zass-7 and the reviewer was in complete awe of its anti-spyware....
wonder if it really is?

 

zass-7? What anti-spyware is that... Because I thought this was on SD 5.

 

I'm guessing Zone Alarm Security Suite version 7.

 

yup,if you check the review on their website(pcmag.com),it says zonealarm's antispyware has out done all anti-spyware apps in market...

 

its monday the 29th of january and i still see the infomation about 4.0 on there site and nothing about 5.0 features and no download link for the 5.0 version.
any links would be useful.
screenshots as well lol.
lodore

 

its tuesday now...maybe something has gone wrong somewhere..

 

http://www.pctools.com/forum/showthread.php?t=44912

From the SD forum. They are working on getting their firewall included in a full suite also! I'm excited.... And I must include... Their forum support is amazing... 1st reply 4 minutes... 2nd reply 2 minutes... lol.

This beta is basically.. PC Tools Anti-Malware if you include the AV protection... And it's like ST... Where you can include the AV in scans... Or in scans and the realtime shield... Awesome... I can't wait to see this in AV comparatives lol.

 

after doing some thorough research here's what i have got for ya,

Beta Homepage:http://www.pctools.com/spyware-doctor/beta/

And a screenshot!

 

thanks legend killer!
how is the amount of processes?
and ram and cpu usage?
any bugs so far?
lodore

 

So which AV engine is added to Spyware Doctor? I am curious!!!

 

Superantispyware has that same spider logo! WHY?

 

For myself Spyware Doctor has 2 processes...
SWDSVC.exe taking 8.1k
SDtrayapp.exe takes .4k - 1k

So yeah.. Not bad. Need to report it's false positives now lol. Haven't hit any bugs yet though.

 

and both of them failed to install on my pc...so couldn't use the beta..

 

Just installed 5.0 Beta but SD still refuses to play with ZASS 7.0.320.000. Causes system reboot during install plus other problems. After uninstalling ZASS 7, SD 5 Beta installs and runs without a hitch. Problem flagged up in <PC Tools SD 5 Beta forum>.

Regards

 

Yeah, well it seems that PC Tools spent as much, maybe more... on marketing as they did on R&D.

From the threads I've read, there are install / run issues w/ NOD32. Guard slows the box down to a crawl. It posts / broadcasts an ad for itself on Skype.
I was told that mem usage will be 50MB during a scan and then settle in to 10MB. All in all, from what I've read, I'm going to wait and not jump into the frying pan. I just hope my SD 4.0 license doesn't run out before they get the app in usable shape.

IMHO, it has the potential to be a killer app, it just needs some serious work. I had to cut loose SD 4.0 due to high memory usage and intolerable CPU drain. Let's hope they get it right this time around.

...screamer

 

also,in my case,IMON failed to start with it....