Spyware Doctor is an advanced adware and spyware removal utility that detects and cleans thousands of potential spyware, ad ware, trojans, keyloggers, spy ware cookies, trackware, spybots and other malware from your PC. This tool allows you to remove, ignore or quarantine identified Spyware. It also has an OnGuard system to immunize and protect your system against hundreds of privacy threats as you work. By performing a fast detection at Windows start-up you will be alerted with a list of the potential threats identified.
Spyware DoctorT V5.0 - What’s New?
New platform for innovation:
Spyware DoctorT V5.0 is a major release for PC ToolsT. The product has undergone a total “under the hood” overhaul & tune-up; providing users with a new smaller, faster and supercharged Spyware DoctorT.
Since its conception, Spyware Doctor has evolved significantly in order to keep up-to-date with ever-changing and growing malware threats, As a result; PC ToolsT turbo-charges its latest version of Spyware Doctor V5.0 into a future-proof platform - ready to take on new technologies and innovation.
* Optimized application performance:
Spyware DoctorT V5.0 is smaller & faster than its predecessors thanks to the bulk of its functionality running in the background and independently of the main GUI. This new architecture means that Spyware Doctor can start the GUI in a matter of seconds. The key parts of Spyware Doctor start early in the boot process to provide superior protection and diminish system resource usage.
* Complete Modular design:
Spyware Doctor V5.0 expands on its innovative modular design and embraces this technology throughout the entire application. Further, with the development of emerging complex malware, this new modular design gives Spyware Doctor V5.0 the equipment to handle new threat techniques (such as load points1) the moment they are discovered!
* Total Spider technology:
Spider ScanningT uses a combination of existing known signatures and heuristics (behavioral techniques) to identify spyware threats quickly and effectively, which minimizes scan times and enhances detection of morphed spyware. Spyware DoctorT V5.0 leverages this technology more effectively than ever before by deploying layered Spider ScanningT throughout all of the Spyware DoctorT scanners and most importantly in the OnGuardT real-time monitors.
Intelli-ScanT:
Spyware DoctorT V5.0 introduces its new Intelli-ScanT technology that is specifically designed to swiftly hunt and kill active running spyware threats. Intelli-scanT can kill and remove all active running spyware threats in as little as 3 minutes2 - accredited to Spyware Doctor’s intuitive and patent pending Spider scanning technology.
Automatic and incremental updates:
Smart UpdateT is now fully automated and runs in the background without user intervention, ensuring users the most current tools, scanners and signatures to maximize protection. Furthermore, database updates will be incremental (during weekdays), meaning only new and modified definitions will be
downloaded (and the complete definition file only once a week), thus allowing for faster and more frequent updates. Spyware DoctorT V5.0 will also continue to deliver its industry leading daily updates.
New Rootkit detection innovations:
Leading the race in rootkit detection innovation, Spyware DoctorT V5.0 brings further enhancements to improve rootkit detection which is entirely based on heuristics. Rootkits and other items that attempt to hide themselves are easily detected and blocked immediately with its new technique.
New Site Guard technology:
The new Site Guard functionality of Spyware DoctorT provides advanced protection to users attempting to access malicious websites. Using the network layer; this new improved approach means greater protection for all types of applications such as all internet browsers, IM programs, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Outlook.
Note: IM guard has been removed from Spyware DoctorT as it has been superseded by the new Site Guard technology.
Anti-Spyware Hacker Defense:
Spyware DoctorT has further extended its own defenses to protect itself from malicious software which attempts to terminate and manipulate well known anti-spyware applications. These new defenses within Spyware DoctorT prevent such threats from compromising its anti-spyware effectiveness and therefore maintaining the security-level of the PC.
AntiVirus protection:
Following the successful uptake of PC Tools AntiVirusT in 2006, this popular product is a welcome addition for Spyware DoctorT users to provide comprehensive protection against viruses. The integration of the AV component into Spyware Doctor is unique, using a streamlined approach that does not duplicate functionality amongst the scanners and ensures users a faster (virus and spyware) scan along with an uninterrupted computer experience.
The AntiVirus plug-in component is available for download on the PC Tools website via the Spyware Doctor main GUI.
New OnGuard Tool - File Guard:
File Guard is capable of blocking malicious files on-access which are downloaded, saved, copied or executed - ensuring that threats are blocked before damage is done anywhere on the computer. File Guard uses a combination of behavioral techniques and Intelli-SignaturesT makes this new technology top of its class.
New OnGuard Tool - E-mail Guard:
A new OnGuardT tool provides protection and instantly removes spyware along with viruses detected via incoming and outgoing e-mails. All popular e-mail applications (such as Outlook ExpressT, Eudora
