Webroot Spy Sweeper 3.2

Webroot Spy Sweeper is award-winning anti-spyware software that effectively detects and safely removes spyware and adware from your PC. Spy Sweeper protects you from spyware's negative consequences, which include a slower Internet connection, pop-up advertisement problems, reduced computer performance, or in the worst case, the loss of private information and identity theft.

What is spyware and how did it get on your PC?

• Adware and spyware programs, also called malware or trackware, quietly and secretly monitor everything you do online, and can communicate your activities to a third party such as an online advertiser.
• It is commonly installed on your PC as a hidden addition to a legitimate program, by visiting websites, or through spam email.
• Unlike the instant impact of a virus, well-written spyware and adware programs never reveal their presence on your PC.
• Pop-up ad problems, a different homepage that you can't change, and a slower PC or online experience are indications of a spyware problem.
• No one is immune from spyware infection. A recent study by Earthlink and Webroot found an average of 26.5 spyware and adware traces per SpyAudit scan.

Why do you need protection from spyware?

• Spyware is everywhere: It infects 9 out of 10 Internet-connected computers.
• It can seriously disrupt your computer operations and compromise your privacy: Spyware makes your computer's performance and Internet access slow to a crawl. Serious infections can lead to a corrupt hard drive, and exposure of private information, usernames and passwords, or, at its worst, identity theft.
• Anti-virus and firewall fail to protect: Anti-virus software and firewalls are not capable of stopping spyware. Firewalls can't detect spyware that is embedded in legitimate programs, or protect a user from already existing internal threats. Anti-virus software is not programmed to recognize or remove spyware programs, which possess different signature files and behaviors.

How does Spy Sweeper protect you from spyware?

• Powerful spyware detection: Spy Sweeper scans your entire system using a constantly updated database of thousands of known spyware threats. You can schedule regular scans or perform one manually to find and remove spyware and adware from your PC.
• Enhanced! Proactive protection: New real-time browser and system shields actively monitor for spyware invasions, and stop these programs before they can infect your PC. Browser shields protect against redirected web searches, unauthorized favorites list additions, and homepage hijackers. The system shields prevent spies from installing on your system, protect your startup list, and block pop ups of phony Windows Messenger Service windows.
• Frequent updates to threat definitions: Spy Sweeper subscribers are regularly prompted to download updated definitions to ensure up-to-date protection from new adware and spyware threats, which emerge daily.
• Safe spyware quarantine: If any files or traces of spyware match the threat definitions database, Spy Sweeper immediately quarantines them. Quarantining disables spyware functionality for immediate protection, while giving you the option to review and permanently delete suspect files or safely restore them if they are essential to the operation of desirable applications.

Additional Features and Benefits

Simple and Easy-to-use
A single click starts an in-depth sweep for covert spyware on your system, providing powerful protection to novice and power users alike.

Spyware Management Tools
Spy Sweeper eliminates the need to research a spy more than once. Any time a piece of spyware or adware is found on your system, you can add it to the 'Always Keep' or 'Always Remove' list.

Spy Sweeper Knowledge Base
Right-click on a specific spy in the Quarantined, Always Keep, or Always Remove screens for instant access to the Spy Sweeper knowledge base. This database provides information about what Spy Sweeper found on your computer and the knowledge to decide what you want to keep or delete.

The database defines the category of spyware (adware, keylogger, Trojan, homepage hijacker, etc.), spyware program capabilities, methods of infection (freeware download, drive-by download, third-party installation, etc.), risk analysis, and recommended action.

Time-saving custom configuration options
You can direct Spy Sweeper to skip files larger than a user-defined size, sweep all folders, or sweep known spyware folders in a specific drive. You may also opt out of performing a memory scan or registry scan.

Scan Progress Bars
Progress bars clearly illustrate where you are in the sweeping process and how much time remains before your sweep for spyware and adware is complete.

Smart Sweepers and Smart Definitions
Smart Sweepers and Smart Definitions allow Spy Sweeper to immediately adapt to rapidly morphing spies for more timely anti-spyware protection.

Auto removal from Run Registry entries
Spy Sweeper automatically scans all the Run registry entries looking for a reference to a spy that was found.

Flexible removal timing
Spy Sweeper adapts to the sophistication of a spy and determines the best time to remove it - offering a powerful tool against tough, recurring malware that can only be removed at certain times, for example, from the hard drive during a system reboot.

New in release 3.2

• Proactive protection shields stop spyware and adware before it finds its way onto your PC.
• Deeper scans root out and quarantine even the trickiest programs.
• Refined spyware scan options and improved user interface.

Award Winning Software




System Requirements

Windows 98, 2000, Me or XP
200 Mhz processor
16 MB hard drive space
32 MB RAM


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