I Thought Webroot SpySweeper Would be Out of Business by Now

I remem­ber when Web­root SpySweeper came on the scene. It was great. It detected AND removed viruses for FREE. It was so good it became a viable com­mer­cial prod­uct, that could be pur­chased at retail stores.

Web­root seemed to had lost it’s iden­tity while tran­si­tion­ing from a free prod­uct to a com­mer­cial one.

They offered a free spy­ware scan­ner tool that could con­vert to a removal tool if you paid. This was a good way to make a profit and fund their spy­ware killing research. How­ever, the free scan­ner nags you about buy­ing the prod­uct, every time you startup the com­puter. It con­stantly dis­plays spy­ware alerts, but will not do any­thing about it.

Plus more and more of my cus­tomers who had SpySweeper were get­ting infected by spy­ware after the pur­chase, even though SpySweeper is sup­posed to be a real time active scanner.

Finally I had enough. I tried all types of removal tools, but could hardly find a reli­able spy­ware removal tool to rec­om­mend to clients. I even­tu­ally stum­bled upon Mal­ware­bytes, and this is very close to the only tool I need in my bat­tles against spy­ware. It scans and removes with ease. The real time scan­ner works like a charm, and I didn’t pay an arm and a leg for it.

I believe pair­ing Mal­ware­bytes with AVG Anti-Virus is prob­a­bly all of the defense you will ever need, and together they wouldn’t use half of the resources as Nor­ton, McAfee, or Web­root alone.

When­ever I get a spy­ware call, I remove Web­root to free up com­puter resources, stop the nags, and make room for a bet­ter solu­tion. I then install Mal­ware­bytes and get busy remov­ing spy­ware, Tro­jans, and root kits.

It is super easy to use, because all you do is click “Scan,” then you click “Remove,” and finally you click “Fin­ish.” It is very thor­ough, so it can detect nearly all cur­rent spy­ware, and it updates religiously.