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Technical Help & Discussion => Broadband, Networking, PC Security, Internet & ISPs => Topic started by: daveeb on May 09, 2006, 19:18

Title: Anyone heard of this
Post by: daveeb on May 09, 2006, 19:18

Has anyone heard of or tried out this....spycatcher express . I've never heard of it myself, it looks impressive (for free  :D ) but you never know.

LINK (http://www.tenebril.com/consumer/spyware/spycatcher-express.php)

Title: Anyone heard of this
Post by: Simon on May 09, 2006, 19:46

Nope, never heard of it, but there's an average review here (http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1877162,00.asp).

Title: Anyone heard of this
Post by: Clive on May 09, 2006, 21:39

Downloaded.  Thanks Dave.   :laugh:

Title: Anyone heard of this
Post by: Clive on May 09, 2006, 23:05

I'm not happy with it Dave.  I didn't like having to re-boot after installation.  No other antispyware has demanded that before.  It's found 9 trojans on my computer but I'm not sure whether to believe it.  I have a bad feeling.....

On Mrs Clive's machine it wiped her desktop clean - and I mean clean!!  All I had was wallpaper.  I did a system restore to get rid of it and mine is going tomorrow too.

Title: Anyone heard of this
Post by: Simon on May 10, 2006, 00:00

Now you know why it's free!   :laugh:  The reboot would probably have been so that it could launch the real time scanning facility (if it has one) on start up.  Spyware Doctor does this too, and I think most of them which have real time scanners will do the same.

Title: Anyone heard of this
Post by: Clive on May 10, 2006, 08:02

I've zapped it now.   :laugh:

Title: Anyone heard of this
Post by: daveeb on May 10, 2006, 18:39

er...sorry it's no good , it wasn't meant to be any sort of reccommendation on my part  :shock:  I just stumbled upon it.  Now i know why i hadnt heard of it before.  Its going into the cyber bin along with clives copy  :D