Why I buy this one ?
- Protection against unwanted spyware and other privacy threats
- Multiple and specialized scanners identify wide range of threats
- Intelli-signatures catch known and new, yet-to-be defined threat variants
- Proprietary update feature ensures the most up-to-date protection
- Quickly installs and runs without interrupting computer activity

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What our customer's say!

"Resource Hog With Big Problems", This is the worst security program I have ever had the misfortune to install on my computer. It is inconceivable to me that this program was rated highly by PC World. Each time I boot up my computer, it takes forever to load, and it prevents me from doing anything until it has finally finished whatever it is doing. After the program eventually loads, it causes a terrific slowdown in my computer, and the scans frequently result in lockups. I've turned off the anti virus protection in the program and otherwise adjusted the settings, but nothing seems to help. I recently downloaded the newer version of the program, hoping that the 2007 version would run more smoothly, but it was no better. Today, I finally gave up and uninstalled the program, and everything is back to normal. If you are thinking about this program, forget it.



"Stay away.", First of all I downloaded and purchased this product about a year ago while trying to diagnose and fix an infected PC belonging to someone in my family. I am sure you know the deal. Giant crisis, everything needs to get fixed ASAP or the world will come to an end shortly. This product (incidentally) DID NOT MANAGE TO FIX the problems with that PC but that is not the reason I am here writing a One-Star review (ZERO-Star reviews are not a permitted choice, more's the pity).

After all Adaware, the Microsoft Spyware removal tool as well as Spybot Search and destroy were all unable to fix that particular PC's problems. I will not blame Spyware Doctor for being similarly stumped. Eventually I was able to rescue document files from that PC and then I needed to reinstall Windows from scratch beginning with a hard disk format (the joys of providing tech support to your extended family).

The company PCTools, says they are selling you the program and a one year subscription to the latest pattern files. WHAT THEY CAREFULLY MANAGE TO HIDE IS THAT YOU WILL BE AUTOMATICALLY ENROLLED AND YOUR CREDIT CARD WILL BE CHARGED EVERY YEAR unless you specifically go in and cancel the subscription. Remember that subscription the you never knew you signed up for? Yeah, that's the one you need to go in and cancel.

This tasty morsel of information is hidden FAR FAR away from view in what looks like the end user license agreement. How many of us read those any more?

One cancelled credit card later I am about to dispute the charge with the Credit card provider and it looks like PCTools tried to charge me before one full year had elapsed.

STAY AWAY



"Spyware Doctor Tops Them A!!!", The reason I decided to purchase Spyware Doctor 2006 was because the backup CD Registry Cleaner [...]. had cracked, may be due to age. Since I had liked this software a lot, I had tried to re-order a new one, but for one reason my online transaction failed to go through. So I came across Software Doctor at Amazon. For years I had heard rave reviews about this software. Nonetheless, I remained a fervent skeptic because of past false appraisals of various anti-virus and anti-spyware programs. However, I decided to give this product the benefit of the doubt, by purchasing Spyware Doctor 2006, rather than Spyware Doctor 2007 (because I wanted to test how the older version was working).

After two weeks of usage, I am convinced that Spyware Doctor is a great product. It runs smoothly. even its slow scan is much faster than many fast scans of other anti-spyware products that I have used. In addition it is user-friendly with Symantec NAV 2005 (which I still use) as well as another anti-virus/spyware program SpyBouncer. This is in contrast with Webroot Spysweeper, which greedily tried to greedily monopolize the whole anti-virus/anti-spam scenario, resulting in the hogging of many bytes on my computer. I think Webroot Spysweeper is one of the worst anti-spyware/anti-virus spyware products ever made.

At the moment, Spyware Doctor 2006 is working in great harmony with Symantec and SpyBouncer. In light of Spy Doctor 2006's spectacular performance, I may later upgrade to Spy Doctor 2007.

"Average anti-spyware program", I've had this program for a year and found it to be kind of annoying. It started with the blocking of what seemed like every website I visited from CNN to the NY Times. Eventually I just turned that feature off. I also found the software to be a serious resource hog. I found it to be just as good at trying to find spyware as Ad-Aware and Spybot but those programs are free. Plus Spybot and Windows Defender offer real time protection and don't use as much resources as Spyware Doctor. Eventually I just let the subscription lapse. By the way, don't even think about installing this program on more than one machine. I installed it on my computer and when I installed it on my laptop it bounced the subscription from my computer. With the quality and free anti-spyware software that is available, I can't really recommend this software especially if you have two machines at home.

"Spyware Doctor", Dose what it says it will. Works great and finds all the add ware and things you don't want on your computer.

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"2 stars is being kind", i bought this 2 years ago and it was o.k. it worked, i upgraded and it slowed my computer down so much (new high end lattop 1 gig memory ) it stops, i check task manager and its taking up 100% of my cpu ,memory ect. its finds the spyware fine, sometimes 30 or more a day but why let it on my computer in the first place ???????
there is better and much cheaper products out there that wont hog your computer to a crawl and wont let spyware on your system so why not buy them ???? my last upgrade of spyware doctor folks

"Not for power users- or begginers for that matter", This program ran the first time, afterwards it failed on the splash screen (97% CPU usage makes for a loud spinning fan).

It was difficult to get the program to uninstall (the uninstaller in Add or Remove Programs did not work). When the uninstaller finished, it opened my web browser without my consent and navigated to their home page. This is what initiated me to write this review. After the program uninstalls, the entries it leaves behind cannot be easily removed. Even Unlocker couldn't delete the "Spyware Doctor" directory from {%SystemRoot%/Program Files/Spyware Doctor}. After uninstalling, something like "Spyware Doctor has been completely removed from your computer." came up. Since I already knew this was not true, I wound up manually removing components by extracting the setup file (from sdsetup.exe) and reading the Inno setup script (install_script.iss). That I would have to do such a thing is unacceptable to me!

Also, if you have customized settings on your computer, this program will set them to default. It took a lot of time for me to redo my computer, and I ended up having to install Windows XP again (erasing everything).

When it did work, I had similar, as well as additional, problems to other reviewers.

All files that this program scans for can be detected and removed using free resources from places like Softpedia. Try navigating to the Security section and sorting by Freeware & Rating (descending order).

"Extremely dissatisfied with buggy 4.0 version", I've had to reinstall Spyware Doctor 4.0 several times because it is horrendously buggy and does not catch the latest spyware. It pops up thousands of popup message boxes unless you turn off that setting, and totally locks itself up. Also, I don't know why, but Spyware Doctor consumes 50% of the CPU when it is not even actively scanning. Horrible product! Another thing I find extremely irritating is that it takes 3 minutes for the program to load, which delays the entire system when you tell it to load at Windows startup. Very crappy code, poorly managed software, tons of bugs, and I'm getting a refund.

"Back to the ole drawing board....", After hearing a co-worker raving about this product, I decided to give it a shot. I already have Adaware and Spyware Remover on my computer, which do a pretty good job of catching and removing annoying cookies but didn't seem to find much spyware. So I downloaded Spyware Doctor on my new Dell which runs Windows XP, installed it (no problem) and ran it to see how it worked. Wowie-kazowie! It identifed over 200 pieces of spyware my old spyware program never caught. Now to get rid of them... seems that if I want to get rid of these pesky critters, I have to purchase the product. But any product that finds spyware that efficiently and thoroughly seemed like a good deal, so I bought Spyware Doctor with my credit card, received an order number and a license number by return e-mail within five minutes, typed the license number into the registration form, and I was off and running. Spyware Doctor cleaned my computer like a runaway vacuum cleaner and left it positively pristine. I'm set for the life of my 'puter, I thought.

Yeah, right.

Next time I booted up my computer, and the next dozen or so times after that, Spyware Doctor simply would not load. When I tried to open it I got an error message, "Access denied". Say, WHAT? I thought, I PAID for this thing! I e-mailed the error message to PCtools.com, which, by the way, never sent me a response, and figured if at first you don't succeed, try, try again. After what seemed like a bajillion infuriating attempts, the program finally loaded and did another competent job of cleaning spyware off my computer. But if I had to go through all that aggravation every time I wanted to use it, I started wondering if it was worth it.

On top of that, everything on my computer started running slower. Spyware doctor made the computer take longer to boot up, it tried to disable my firewall, and it did a very competent job of locking up my screen saver, so that whenever my screen saver kicked in I had to reboot the computer. And it still loaded when it damn well pleased, which was only about one third of the time.

After a week of this I was ready to drop-kick the computer through the window but figured it would be simpler and more sensible simply to uninstall Spyware Doctor and get my money back. I logged onto PCTools web site and got connected to live tech support, which promised to refund my money within two weeks, and sent me not one, but two e-mails confirming the refund. Well, at least something at PCTools works.

Actually, when Spyware Doctor does work, it does one hell of a job cleaning your computer. The problem is, it works when it wants to, and after the initial installation, it wants to less and less. I've never seen a program so frustrating to deal with. I like a squeaky-clean drive as much as anyone, but not at the price of my sanity.

So now I'm back to Adaware plus Microsoft Anti-spyware, and if I've got some spyware lurking around in there, it will damn will stay there until I find a program that does a competent job of finding and removing it without creating havoc elsewhere on my computer. PCTools has a great idea, but they have some major glitches to deal with before their product realizes its promise.

Judy Lind

"Very good program", I build computers and I troubleshoot computers every day and this is the choice of spy ware remover I tell them to get.


If you got an older computer don't try the active protection but any one with a computer that came with Xp pro should be fine. You have to have at least 256+ MB of ram the minimum I recommend is 512mb. But I have this works perfectly fine. No gliching no slow down. Other people that reviewed are not computer savvy to a point. Like the know how to use it but not properly. You never click on popup adds ads on pages and anything that says free in it will give you spy ware. If you already got a lot a virus's which the 2 negative reviews probably had the active scanner will of coarse slow down the computer. Ether there computer is to slow has to many programs starting up at once or already been infested with Viruses,spyware...ect This spy ware remover is one of the best but there are new spy ware that comes out every day that you may get that this cant remove. but its the same thing with every program. Just update the program weekly, do a scan weekly and you should be ok.