Horrible program - this may 'sweep' away your whole system!

Pros: Looks shiny - but nothing good under the cover.

Cons: I've been a PC Engineer since 1984 - and have rarely run into a program that has caused more problems than Spysweeper has!

First - I tried their 'free' version - which isn't free at all - it doesn't work unless you pay for the 'full' version.

OK - I paid - it never worked correctly. Then recently - I ran a 'sweep' and it found supposedly 28 bad files. I responded to 'clean' them, only to have Spysweeper delete core Windows components AND many sub-folders under my 'Program Files' folder, including itself, my anti-virus program, MS Office and most of my other applications!!

Thier support was a joke - so needless to say, I had to rebuild my entire system from scratch.

BE VERY CAREFUL with this program. Stay away - just use Ad-Aware, Spybot and Microsoft's free anti-spyware programs and you'll probably be just fine.

Posted: 05-Jan-2006 11:56:24 AM