PC tools Spyware Doctor

Spyware and adware can not only report your activities without your knowledge, but they can also bring your system to a crawl. If you're among the majority of users who don't have adequate spyware protection, Spyware Doctor might be worth a look.

Spyware Doctor installs quickly and easily and immediately offers a scan. The default download scans all drives, which can be time consuming if you have external hardware drives. Registered users can customize the scanning process (via the start scan button) to search likely locations of spyware or specify particular drives.

After the scan, spyware details the threats it finds by category and danger level. If you purchase the product, spyware will let you remove the threats it finds, offering to create a system restore point first.

Spyware Doctor's OnGuard utility will block spyware and adware programs as they hit your PC using seven components you can enable or disable individually. They provide formidable protection, blocking cookies and spyware, stopping programs from executing at startup, blocking invaders from hijacking your network connection and more.

Spyware Doctor doesn't allow much customization and may be too aggressive for some users. Spyware Doctor did a decent job of discerning between beneficial and malicious tracking. However, with tracking cookies, there were several false positives, and you cannot unmark for deletion (or easily mark for exception) individual items. Users who don't want to lose cookies with stored preferences from benign sites will either need spend more time on exception management or else exclude tracking cookies from their cleaning sessions altogether.
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