Spyware Terminator
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New free antispyware software is here and it claims to be the terminator! It looks similar to Ad-aware and its scan results are very much similar to it, but Spyware Terminator has functions like Real time protection which Ad-aware doesn’t offer in free version. We tested it in three system already loaded with nod32 antivirus and WindowsXp SP2 with all the latest updates.During the install it offered a web security guard
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| which is actually like a toolbar working real time preventing you from entering a potentially dangerous website, which is quite a good as mostly these spywares get installed at once as you enter such malicious websites. If you feel like you have got a hell good software, all your expectations break when you see the next screen, it ask to install Crawler Toolbar, a search engine (found safe) and also ask your permission to make it the default search engine and your home page! | ||||
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This looks malicious but since you can reject these during install, I moved to next screen. You will be surprised (and can laugh) to see it now giving an antivirus package too!
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Here we rejected it too as the main purpose was to test the antispyware, not antivirus. At last the installation is finished and I got a really nice looking software on my screen, updated it and it was a breeze. Before I began to do scan I found that the toolbar is actually installed since I selected the web security guard, I hate these toolbars as it’s a useless waste of productive space on computer. You can turn it off though but the question is when I don’t want it why it gets installed? It can be justified because the company offering software for free wants some favor in return like donation etc and in this case they want to popularize their search engine. First quick scan didn’t detect anything harmful, so was the full scan result. Unlike other antispyware this one is made more like an antivirus programs, for e.g., you can scan any particular file from right click menu which is useful in case one find a file looking suspicious, he can scan it immediately. A good thing that I found that being a graphic rich eye candy looking software with lots of features; it consumes very less memory as is not heavy on system at all. Verdict: |
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