On Sep 14, 5:17 pm, h...@not.here.com wrote:
> Well, I just bought the program the other day. Right from the start, I
> did have problems with loading Kaspersky AV after installing Spy
> Sweeper. After a few reboots, everything seemed to be working okay,
> even though I found Spy Sweeper to be a real memory hog. However, in
> the last 24 hours, I found it to be a real pain in arse to the point
> where I finally uninstalled it.
>
> It began by conflicting with my Kaspersky AV. Then I noticed Tea Timer
> having problems with Spy Sweeper. Thinking that many people in the past
> have had problems running Spybot's Tea Timer, even though I haven't had
> any problems with it for years, I decided to sacrifice Tea Timer and
> turned it off.
>
> Then Spy Sweeper began anew with keeping Kaspersky from loading at
> times. Then it destroyed my firewall by locking up the comp after I had
> updated Spy Sweeper and did a sweep with it. No key would work. The
> comp would freeze completely, stranding my Best Crypt drives in the wide
> open position, forcing me to boot the machine in order to regain
> control. My firewall paid the price after a few times of this nonsense.
>
> The dang program even locked out certain other programs from working,
> such as Directory Snoop. It also forced me to double click a number of
> times on CleanCache, which simply wouldn't respond for about 30 seconds
> or so after my clicking on it. Even then, it would go right to the
> system tray instead of opening.
>
> So I decided I would turn off Spy Sweeper, keeping it from booting, and
> using it only in an On Demand fashion for sweeps. Well, I'll tell you
> that little bas***d didn't appreciate that at all. The s.o.b. thing went
> on an interminable sweep when called up, telling me that different
> pieces of my perfectly good software were a threat. The damn thing
> wouldn't turn off - not even after a cold boot. It came back on with a
> vengeance after I turned the comp back on after the cold boot. Finally,
> I don't know how or why, the dang thing turned itself off, allowing me
> to click on the system tray icon and close the damn thing. THAT'S when I
> had it and uninstalled the bleeping thing before it could re-energize
> itself and come back to life.
>
> KEE-RIST!! I haven't seen crap software like this thing since the days
> of Workshop for Windows 3.1 trying to run Norton crap.
>
> So much for trusting products produced by 'well known' companies.
>
> Enuf are enuf. Goodbye Spy Sweeper. Rot on my drive, nevermore to be
> installed. Matter of fact, now that I think of it, as soon as I
> complete this email, I'm gonna wipe the damn thing from the drive,
> precluding my ever forgetting this lesson and trying to reinstall it
> someday. As they say, good riddance to bad garbage.
>
> Kiss $25 goodbye.
>
> Lordy! What a mess it had made of a perfectly operating comp.
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It is too late now perhaps - unless you are able to reinstall - but
you should consider two things. Number one, getting past your anger,
consider that Webroot Spysweeper is the actual industry leader in
sales for years and years now which implies that you are one of a
very, very, very few persons that has had a bad experience with ---
meaning obviously if it were crap they would not be so popular
and rich. Number two, you should consider first going to the product
website to look for any Fixes that may have been issued that would
have solved all things with a couple clicks (install update). There
are not many antispyware programs with real time protection that will
run together, as one views the other as a threat and also in scans.
But you say you did that - uninstalled Spybot S&D. Months ago I tried
popular SuperAntispyware for the heck of it and this caused corruption
in Spysweeper. It had to be reinstalled.
Webroot Spysweeper went through some changes. In their middle times a
couple of Upgrades ago sounds like what you are describing. There was
a clean up utility they issued that had to be run between the Upgrades
to enable normal operation of the newer version. I was as angry as you
sound like at the time. But it was temporary. They then issued the
Upgrade that added the new feature of adjusting CPU/memory usage.
Unless you are familiar with threats it is virtually impossible for
someone to tell you how to run things as Advanced. It is necessary for
the average consumer to be aware of the computer system. All of these
companies do their best in creating the simplest design for the
average user that kind of heard about threats and knows less - but do
know that Spysweeper is one of the top three rated by the entire
community of professional testers. See TopTenReviewsCom for one. The
problem my friend is going to keep pointing back to you and what you
did.
Apparently you did not hear that you cannot run two firewalls, two
antivirus programs, or two antispyware programs. This is most likely
the problem of the install. Spybot S&D may have even made a Windows
Registry entry and possible file corruption of your Webroot install.
Contact them.
I keep seeing many persons swearing by Spybot Search and Destroy
thinking they are protected. It is at the bottom of the list in all
professional testings that are published. Basically it is rated at not
much above 50 or 60 percent effective whereas Webroot Spysweeper,
CounterSpy, and Trend Micro Antispyware (the top three for years) are
all rated as close as is available to 100 percent effective in
blocking and removing threats. I wished that all who use Spybot S&D
where aware of that.
If you think you are Advanced or aware of the threats and so forth
then the top advanced product is Trend Micro Antispyware. It is
definately NOT recommended for a newbie - however is recommended for
Advanced use. It is just that tad bit above both the others in
protection - but you will have to be aware and familiar with all parts
of your machine. In other words knowing all your executables by name
in Task Mananger.... your start up programs. Familiar with files of
all your software installed. Aware of corresponding Registry entries
and on and on --- or you are sitting there with a possible threat and
can not click block until you find out exactly what it is blocking
which usually takes looking up the process real fast to see what has
been presented to you. And that's okay if you are at least that aware
that if you just click block everything you may be blocking valid
software from working.
Another point is that Webroot Spysweeper and Trend Micro Antispyware
are known as producing virtually NO false positives. It is not
believable that your Webroot Spysweeper installation produced so many
false positives on valid softwares. A first run of the product is like
a firewall that is presenting items to you for your permissions. There
may be up to 40 (even more) processes running in the background just
for your start up items and Windows when you start your computer.
Practically all of Windows processes are recognized but mostly
whatever software programs you have installed may be presented to you
to either okay always or may actually be a threat you need to
quarantine or delete. Most likely what you saw was Start Up items
being presented to you. These were anything with " .exe" in your start
up items found in Task Manager or a threat - which is what the Start
Up Shield protects against. In other words some spyware dot execute
(example, spyware-name.exe) that was going to execute (launch) at
start up was caught and not allowed to as either a known threat or
suspected one. Again my friend, Webroot is ABSOLUTELY known for years
as producing virtually NO false positives.
And again, if you are at least an Intermediate User or better - then
Trend Micro Antispyware is your ticket. Trend Micro has the "Trickle"
feature and honestly you do not even know it is running in a quick or
full scan. It is the only product I know of that has the MSN Explorer
history cleaner in it's included features and I was born on msn.com in
2001. MSN.com internet includes the sleekest MSN
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