CounterSpy 3.1

Good, strong scanner, excellent realtime protection

18-Aug-2008 09:55:10 PM
Reviewer: dellyfry

Pros: Counterspy employs one of the strongest and most indepth antispyware databases. While it will not catch everything, it is certainly a worthy addition to anyone's system looking for a backup/concurrent scanner to their current antivirus.

* Anti-rootkit detection.

* On-Execute and On-Access realtime protection.

* Behavior/HIPS like protection.

* Program Execution protection

* Daily updates

* Fairly light on the system resources

* Has additional tools to clean out temp files, browse startup items, BHOs, etc.

Cons: * Executable scanning causes general system lag.

* This version is a little unstable.

* Can conflict with existing antivirus/antimalware programs that duplicate Counterspy's HIPS/behavior based protection.

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These other reviewers must be joking...

18-Aug-2008 03:16:44 PM
Reviewer: hbsteve88

Pros: Counterspy is one of the few software companies that has time and time again been top of the list of antispyware... thus why microsoft bought their technology back with windows defender(but its very bad). Other reviews, they are prob the competitors

Cons: that it does cost... but even the trial is good enough to try out.. run it, then uninstall it if need be

It works, and works well... this is one of the few programs i recommend that actually ever finds anything.. spysweeper, spybot, and ad-aware are all good as well It updates all the time... again whats up with the reviewer, a 3 day old def file? OMG waaaa waaaa you be lucky with other products to get quarterly updates... counterspy always checks for updates and releases them often, and have moved from v1-3 rather quickly as well. but as everyone knows don't just use one... use this and spybot or adaware perhaps.. everyone has their own stuff it catches, not one is perfect.. use this and avast for anti virus.. keep your system clean.

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