Spysweeper Quotes - What the experts are saying

PC Magazine September 16, 2003

"...Spyware removal tools are as important as firewall and anti-virus packages these days."
Konstantinos Karagiannis
"Sweeping for Spies, Improved"
CBSNEWS.com

"Without a marvelous program from Webroot, called Spy Sweeper, this privacy invasion could have gone on indefinitely."
Dan Dubno
July 2004

"Leaving your PC unprotected online is like leaving your house keys dangling out the front door. Eventually someone with malicious intent will let themselves in and take whatever they fancy.

There are other tools that do the same job as Spy Sweeper and Window Washer even ones you can download for free. But when you seek protection against web-borne diseases, boxed software, regular updates and a cash receipt lend a certain solid reassurance."
PC Advisor (UK)
June 2004

"Spy Sweeper is an easy-to-use utility that does a good job of removing snooping programs from your PC.

Webroot's Spy Sweeper scans and detects spyware programs on your computer, then helps you delete the little blighters. There are already free programs available that do the same thing - so what extras does Spy Sweeper offer? To find out, we ran a scan of our system using Spy Sweeper and its competitor AdAware, the best-known free spyware removal program.

AdAware finished its test in just under a minute, while Spy Sweeper kept us waiting for nearly six. Despite this, Spy Sweeper found exactly the same number of spy programs as AdAware. We ran the same test again on a number of systems and came up with comparable results. However, when we ran Spy Sweeper on a system that had already been cleaned by AdAware, the program found 36 programs that AdAware claimed already to have done away with. We didn't have the same problem when we reversed the scenario and ran AdAware on a system that had already been cleaned by Spy Sweeper. Also, Spy Sweeper doesn't just wait until you run a scan to clear your PC of spyware. It includes a real-time monitor that looks for newly installed spyware and catches it the moment it launches. We tested this by installing a program called Hotbar that we knew came with some spyware, and Spy Sweeper detected it as soon as it started up. AdAware can't do this."
Ben Har-Even
Computer Buyer