Webroot Spy Sweeper

I have heard this software slows down your computer - has anyone else had
this? I am thinking of getting it, but don't want to slow things down. Any
advice is appreciated. I have Windows XP

 

I am using SpySweeper 4.0.4.430 (build 430) as one of several anti-spyware
apps and found no slowdown after I installed it. I am running a Dell
Dimension 8300 2.8GHz, 1GB RAM, two 120GB HDDs and XP Home SP2. Runs fine
for me.

 

As long as your machine is at least a 1 GHz machine with 512 MB of RAM,
you'll be just fine. Like any other program running in the background,
SpySweeper will consume resources. However, in my opinion, it is definitely
not a "hog", by any means. Norton AV will put a bigger strain on your
machine than SpySweeper.


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They are not the same type of product! Norton AV is an Anti-Virus
product, spy-sweeper is not an AV product.

 

It seems to be a real memory hogger with Win 2000.
I don't run it in startup but use it for scanning on occasion, and it
rarely finds anything.

 

Yeah, I actually bought spysweeper last week. I'm pretty impressed with
"Most" of its features but I could do without a couple. For instance,
everytime my PC boots Sweeper re-detects my hostfile and says it was edited.
Well, I added entries into my host file and told sweeper to "Keep" entries
and not ask me about them. Well, everytime it reboots sweeper seems to think
it was edited again which it was not! This is a big annoyance since sweeper
can't seem to remember what I told it not to mess with and leave ALONE!

Other than that I'm pretty impressed with this software since it has
protection against ADS which is a nice addition to anyone's
anti-hack/spied/f-ed with arsenal.. I run a pretty clean system and was
running adaware SE and MS anit-spyware beta and spysweeper seems to detect
about the same stuff.

Hey, I thought they made computers to make our lives more productive?? Hmmm,
*scratches head*