Spyware Doctor

Spyware Doctor™ provides three-way spyware protection for your PC through real-time threat blocking, advanced system scanning and immunization against known browser infections. Spyware Doctor is a multi-award winning spyware removal utility that detects, removes and protects your PC from thousands of potential spyware, adware, Trojans, keyloggers, spybots and tracking threats. Protect your privacy and computing habits from prying eyes and virtual trespassers with the help of Spyware Doctor.
Anti-virus software and firewalls do not fully protect your system against the majority of spyware and privacy threats. Because spyware is commonly bundled with software downloads, attached to e-mails, or transmitted through networks it can appear to be legitimate software, but once installed it can be nearly impossible to detect and remove without the help of a dedicated spyware removal tool like Spyware Doctor.
Spyware Doctor has consistently been awarded Editors' Choice, by leading PC magazines and testing laboratories around the world, including United States, United Kingdom, Sweden, Germany and Australia. All current versions of Spyware Doctor have won Editors' Choice awards from PC Magazine in United States. In addition, after leading the market in 2005, Spyware Doctor was awarded the prestigious Best of the Year at the end of 2005.

Spyware Doctor Tools:
- Spyware & Adware Scanner Keylogger
- Guard Popup
- Blocker Phishing
- Protector Real Time
- Protection Browser
- Guard Spyware Cookie
- Guard Malware
- Immunizer

Spyware Doctor Features:
* Detects and removes malware infections including spyware, adware, browser hijackers, Trojans, keyloggers, dialers and tracking cookies
* Frequent Smart Updates to detect and guard against new infections as well as adding enhancements to Spyware Doctor
* A wide range of sophisticated scanning tools including:
--- A Hosts Scanner, which scans the Windows Hosts file for any mappings that may have been altered as a result of malware activities.
--- A Browser Defaults, Favorites and ZoneMap Scanner, which determines if malware has altered your browser home page, favorites or has added any malicious sites to your Trusted Sites list.
--- A Startup Scanner, which removes references to malicious programs that run at startup in the registry and Windows startup files, as well as malicious files in Windows startup locations.
--- State-of-the-art scanning engines, including file scan, memory scan, registry scan, browser helper objects scan, cookie scan and much more.
* The OnGuard feature, designed for continual protection against malware infections and associated activities on your computer
--- A patent pending Keylogger Guard tool, which uses behavioral detection as opposed to signature-dependent methods to detect and block keylogger activities on your computer.
--- An effective Browser Guard, which scans and removes unwanted Browser Extensions in addition to Browser Helper Objects.
--- A powerful Immunizer tool to keep your browsing safe.
--- An easy-to-use Popup Blocker.
--- A Scheduler, to allow scheduling of a Quick Scan, Full Scan or Smart Update at specified times and intervals.
--- A Site Guard tool (Anti-Phishing).
--- A Process Guard tool, which prevents known malicious processes from running on your computer.
--- A Startup Guard tool, which checks for and removes malicious files that attempt to run automatically on your system when Windows starts up.
* Ability to quarantine and restore items that have been detected

Spyware Doctor allows you to remove malware infections from your system that have been detected in a scan, or quarantine them into a contained area. The majority of infections that have been quarantined can be restored at a later time for example. You can customize Spyware Doctor to either remove or quarantine malware items fixed in a scan.

Spyware Doctor 5.0 designed for Windows Vista™, XP and 2000

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Spyware Doctor description
Award Winning Spyware Removal & Protection
Spyware Doctor is an advanced adware and spyware removal program that will detect and clean thousands of potential spyware, ad ware, keyloggers, trojans, spy ware cookies, trackware, spybots and other malware from your computer.

Spyware Doctor is a multi-award winning spyware removal utility that detects, removes and protects your PC from thousands of potential spyware, adware, trojans, keyloggers, spybots and tracking threats.

The Spyware Doctor remover tool allows you to remove, ignore or quarantine identified Spyware for free in the trial version. It also has an OnGuard system to immunize
and protect your system against hundreds of privacy threats as you work.

By performing a fast detection at Windows start-up you will be alerted with a list of the potential threats identified.

Here are some key features of "Spyware Doctor":

· Detects and removes malware infections including spyware, adware, browser hijackers, Trojans, keyloggers, dialers and tracking cookies
· Frequent Smart Updates to detect and guard against new infections as well as adding enhancements to Spyware Doctor
· Rootkit scanning
· Spider Scanning Technology (patent pending)
· ADS detection & removal capability
· Malicious KL (Kernel Level) Process killer
· A wide range of other sophisticated scanning tools
· The OnGuard feature, designed for continual protection against malware infections and associated activities on your computer
· Ability to quarantine and restore items that have been detected


Limitations:

· Download the latest version of Spyware Doctor and scan your PC for thousands of spyware, adware, and malware threats. Please note the trial version is limited to scan only.






What's New in This Release:

· A new OnGuard real-time protection tool, IM Guard, protects users of Instant Messaging applications such as MSN Messenger from access to any potentially malicious URLs received. Such URLs can lead to phishing sites or sites which attempt to exploit your web browser.
· Some recent malware infections are installed as drivers which protect themselves from removal and along with other installed drivers, are protected from deletion by the operating system. However, Spyware Doctor has the capability of removing these malicious driver threats. Spyware Doctor is also capable of removing threats that attempt to shut down the Spyware Doctor application itself.
· The Ignore List is used to prevent Spyware Doctor from detecting specific items that you wish to keep. However, some recent threats have been found to add themselves to the Ignore List in an attempt to compromise Spyware Doctor’s detection capabilities. Therefore, the security of the Ignore List has been enhanced and integrity checks implemented to prevent such threats from attempting to compromise Spyware Doctor’s effectiveness.
· Spyware Doctor includes significant enhancements to its scanning tools. The Disk Scanner tool has the ability to detect and remove threats that attempt to avoid detection by using alternative character formatting. The Browser Activity Scanner is now also able to detect potentially malicious cookies stored by Mozilla Firefox web browser.
· Spyware Doctor provides the option of creating a Windows System Restore point prior to threat removal. This works as a supplementary feature to Spyware Doctor's own Quarantine and Restore