Thread: Spyware Doctor with AntiVirus 6

FOR SUCH A BIG RELEASE, SPYWARE DOC¬tor with AntiVirus 6 is surprisingly free of wild new features. Instead, PC Tools has concentrated on enhancements that are hidden from view, mak¬ing the app better at detecting threat variants and cleaning up heavily infested systems while using minimal system resources. Most significant is the fact that it now integrates the company's Threat Fire technology in the form of an add-on called Behavior Guard.

SDAV6 installation takes quite a while, mainly because the signature database isn't included in the installer. To speed the install process even on malware-infested systems, the company raises the installer process's priority. But even with that pri¬ority boost, the entire process can take as much as 10 or 15 minutes, especially if the signature download is interrupted and has to restart. However, SDAV6 jumps into action even before it finishes these program updates.



Scanning on my resource-poor, malware-infested virtual machine test systems took a long, long time: nearly 2 hours in some cases. But this was in part because I turned on an option entitled "Scan for rootkit hidden files," which can double the scan time. A full scan of my standard, clean test system was much quicker: just a bit over half an hour.

The results were worth the wait. Spyware Doctor detected every single one of the malware samples and successfully removed all but one of them. In most cases it removed almost every trace of the