hal@not.here.com wrote in
news:io6me3hl89qdkqbhin9bmo6ilu4rgtcp5o@4ax.com:

> On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 23:11:31 GMT, Tread <ra32423sd@p.mail> wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:17:18 -0500, hal@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.
>>
>>School of hard knocks?
>>
> You wanna see the bumps on my head?
>
>>hint... (whispers) SuperAntiSpyware
>
> Hint: Screw 'em all - except Spybot. I'm just going to have to run it
> much more frequently - like every few days or so. If I had done that
> in the beginning, it would have found that junk on my machine almost
> immediately.
>
> Ain't gonna trust that anti spy stuff until they get their acts
> together. I figure they must be where the first AV programs were back
> when they were relatively new.

I would like to think my little antispy program wouldn't cause you too
much trouble. I know it certainly won't try to stop programs from
loading. LoL.

Sorry about your misfortune with Spy Sweeper, I routinely disable it when
I find it on customers machines so that I can clean them up.


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