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Symantec Corporation. User rating:. In the table left, click on the link that will work for your version of Windows. Save the file to your Desktop. When the file has finished downloading, go to your Desktop and double-click the file.

When it comes to accuracy with specific regard to the anti-spyware component, Norton had a slightly disappointing detection rate of 61 per cent compared to the group test average of 68 per cent and ZoneAlarm with 78 per cent. Removal rates were excellent, though, rating 78 per cent 68 per cent group, 82 per cent ZoneAlarm , and Norton blocked reinstallation to the same standard as most of the competition with 48 per cent 43 per cent group, 51 per cent ZoneAlarm.

All of which resulted in an overall accuracy score of 62 per cent, which would have placed it at a less-than-spectacular fifth in our group test for accuracy alone. Finally, we saved a snapshot of the system in its unpleasantly infested state. Still, we got it running and immediately began receiving warnings from the firewall and real-time scanning modules, even before the product's post-restart full configuration.

For each real-time warning of a spyware risk, it recommended that we use the Scan Now option; our other choices were to exclude the item from scanning or ignore it for 30 minutes. We found that the Scan Now option launched a quick scan, checking only the most likely locations for spyware. To give the product maximum opportunity for success, we started over and ran a full system scan.

It's common for a badly infested system to require multiple rounds of cleanup; we restarted and ran the full scan again. Twice the system experienced a blue-screen crash during the scan; the third time it ran to completion.

This time it removed all but six of the remaining threats, but those remained present through repeated restart and rescan cycles. Analysis of the log files revealed that 10 of these were nonexecutable remnants—Registry entries and data files. While such items take up space, they're not actively harmful. As it turned out, even Spy Sweeper was unable to remove two of these iSearch and Istbar. According to Webroot, Spy Sweeper 4.