Still not convinced this is a step forward?

Pros: Initial install is straightforward & Cnet tips on set up were useful.

Cons: Unlike SE Personal , the free version UI for 2007 carries the full set of buttons, most of which cannot be used without upgrading to one of the paid versions which makes it somewhat cluttered.

Also seems to be a bigger drain on system resources than the former.

I first tried 2007 on release & have also trialed several of the updates, but always preferred to stick with SE Personal. There is comment on the Lavasoft support forum that support for SE was discontinued as it was no longer sophisticated enough to deal with current spyware. The same source is full of comments from other users, with far more technical knowledge than me, bemoaning the demise of SE.

Finally, if 2007 is supposed to be so much better, I don't understand why, after running a full system scan which comes up clean, then immediately running a similar scan with SE Personal, it detects MRU lists & tracking cookies which were obviously missed by 2007.

Neither SE or 2007 has ever detected any greater threat than those mentioned above.

Posted: 20-Jan-2008 03:19:26 AM

Not bad, but not that good either?

Pros: Gave it a go for the trial period after much prompting at the conclusion of the scan of their Disc defrag app. Tried all of the functions except the uninstall manager (because I didn't need it). All ran smoothly.

Cons: Apart from the registry & disc defrag functions, which are available separately for free, and perform well, I didn't feel Boostspeed did enough to make it worth paying for. As mentioned in the editor's review, all the functions are available as freeware elsewhere & I'm going to try these out before making a decision which way to go. Overall this app caused absolutley no problems, but didn't give a noticeable improvement in the performance of my desktop either.

Posted: 06-Jul-2008 10:11:02 AM

Comes with spyware

Cons: Found 2 trojans as follows:Trojan horse Downloader.Agent.AFIS One in C:\Program Files\revosetup.exe & one in C:\Program Files VS Revo Group\Revo Uninstaller\uninst.exe

Enough said! It's been removed.

Posted: 15-Jun-2008 07:32:55 AM