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Reviewer: 1dmf
Company: Webroot Software, Inc., Visit Site
Product: Spy Sweeper ... Version: 3.2
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I have just downloaded and installed the latest version of enterprise edition.

And after 30minutes of install every user in the company was complaining that their PC was grinding to a halt.

It got so bad on my own PC (2.4ghz p4), i couldn't even log onto the server from it and had to go into the server room to remove the software.

The interface looks good, it seemed to find a few adwares that Ad-Aware & MS-AntiSpy didn't find, unfortunately the software is no good as it grinds all clients and the server to a halt.

This product is un-usable!

Added: September 5th 2005

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Spy Sweeper
Posted by hitbit on 2005-11-16 04:32:00
My Score:

I don''t know about enterprise but I use SpySweeper and find it excellent.
It does the old false positive on PeerGuardian but thats about it on bad behaviour. I am amazed that one contributor to this forum finds Enterprise a disaster when the net is littered with excellent reviews.
Perhaps this guy has simply had a bad experience which may or may not be the products fault. He might consider going back to step one and
re-install enterprise, this time observing in detail and noting any problems then checking to identify if it is the cause of the difficulty.
Lets face we''ve all been there, made a hash of something and blamed something, anything, anyone but ourselves only to DISCOVER LATER.
Perhaps its time to delete this thread.

hitbit

Spy Sweeper
Posted by buckZor on 2005-11-15 20:40:10
My Score:

Firstly, Spysweeper Enterprise doesn''t even have a version 3.2. If he installed version 3.2 he installed a 1+ year old version of the consumer spysweeper.

The enterprise edition of Spysweeper is an enterprise solution which requires testing in a lab environment where you can tweak and control the situation. I support the enterprise edition in our organization and highly recommend it. You might want to do a little testing before pushing it to your production environment though, like any enterprise deployment. Duh.

Im sick of this review being here ''yesterday'' for months. PLEASE PULL!

Spy Sweeper
Posted by anonym on 2005-11-11 06:22:52
My Score:

1dmf is not a hoxer, he''s just 1 dumb m-f''er.

Spy Sweeper
Posted by PCHRobbie on 2005-10-22 21:08:50
My Score:

Is 1dmf a hoax(er)?? SpySweeper is consistently among the top-rated programs. 1dmf''s posting is so at variance with the real-world, I can''t believe 1dmf''s for real.

Spy Sweeper
Posted by yambag on 2005-10-06 11:57:57
My Score:

Yank this review!

1dmf, you are 1dmf. If you had a problem installing Spysweeper (Enterprise I''m guessing) you must be semi- retarded.

Because of it''s ease of installation, configuration and great price, I recommend Spysweeper Enterprise to all of my customers. It has literally transformed some of my customer''s networks from spyware- ridden to spyware- free. Their tech support kicks ass, they are constantly improving their software and they don''t sell out to adware peddlers, like Microsoft and Lavasoft.

If you''re having an issue with scans during the day- run them at night

I''m surprised that this website would allow such a crappy review of a good product, none of the low marks are substantiated. The only comment is how scans slow down his/ her PCs. If you want to be taken seriously as a security website that allows it''s members to review products then ask yourselves a basic question when posting junk like this...is it fair? I''m sure that some people are actually taking this jack- ass'' advise- too bad.

Spy Sweeper
Posted by kludgette on 2005-09-26 11:34:22
My Score:

All you had to do was cancel sweeps in progress. It doesn''t handle well doing an entire sweep at once - causes too much network traffic. Schedule first sweep for the middle of the night and have all users keep PC''s on.


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