The clean system had a few cookies detected, but beyond that came back with a clean bill of health. Once you've identified a spyware threat, Spysweeper gives you a small information dialog box that should help you work out whether it's something that should be removed, or simply left alone. Detected items are thrown into a quarantine zone, allowing you to check whether any applications that required them have suddenly stopped working.
From the quarantine zone it's simple enough to eradicate threats entirely. Spysweeper is quite thorough, but it's also quite slow, and on both tested machines we noticed a solid performance hit while sweeping for Spyware. It's acceptable if all you need to do is a little light e-mail checking, or simple Web surfing, but if you've got more taxing tasks in mind, you'll need to set aside separate times to periodically check for Spyware.
Ultimately, Spysweeper is a good choice if you're concerned about spyware on your PC, especially if you run a lot of ad-supported software, or programs you're not too sure about. If you've got solid confidence in what's running on your PC, you could get by with free utilities such as SpyBot, however.
Doogee S80 hands-on: A waterproof, rugged walkie-talkie phone. Development very specifically works to overcome any compatibiltiy issues with other antimalware platforms. That's something that no other antivirus program can say. If you look at it from an industry viewpoint, they really don't want to. If another product on the same machine catches it, they "look bad" to the average person.
So if they are all running, whoever catches it first "wins" and nobody realizes that next week the other will catch something the previous "winner" didn't. SecureAnywhere knows what other antivirus programs are.
It is aware of what they do, and it tracks what they do. It does not block with on-access scanning, nor does it try to break the lockouts. It has one specific feature that they don't have: It knows who the good guys are.
The other AV programs need to lock down and rip out and prevent all other interference because they only have a list of what is bad. Everything else is unknown.
So even if it's potentially good, they need to block it in case it might be bad and trying to kill them or prevent them from cleaning your system. SecureAnywhere tracks Good, Bad, and Unknown.
If it sees a threat on the system, it will try to lock it. If the SEP process then tries to break the lock because it also sees the threat and wants to handle it, SecureAnywhere is informed enough to recognize the SEP process as a Good process and allows it to do so, while also covering its back if it knows more about the threat than Symantec does. If the process drops random registry entries, random polymorphic files, and other such things before it's removed by SEP, SEP has no way of catching its droppings.
SecureAnywhere can. So while is allows SEPto handle the main problem which it would handle effectively on its own if SEP were not present , it cleans up everything else that SEP is unaware of.
AntiSpyware can be alongside AntiVirus because it is submissive. Traditional Antivirus cannot be submissive because it only knows "Bad" or "Unknown", so when handling a threat, it has to treat all unknowns that try to interfere as potentially bad and take action against them. Therefore, AntiSpyware cannot play an AntiVirus role in the traditional sense. SecureAnywhere is as submissive as AntiSpyware in the sense of not locking, and not conflicting.
However it is as aggressive as AntiVirus when it needs to be because it has the information it needs to decide that another Antivirus is a good process.
So we literally put a full-capabiltiy Antivirus system into a package that reacts with other Antivirus like it was Antispyware just because it is aware of the other Antivirus.
Finally, if all else fails, look at it from a this standpoint: If you ask Symantec directly about SecureAnywhere, they will say "No, you cannot run that! Us only, no matter what! If you don't like this, don't useus, because if you have them, we won't support you. We think you will like us better and will decide you don't need them, but we will not take your freedom of choice away from you.
If you encounter a problem with the combination, we will help work around it and develop around it so that you may continue to use both, and we will support you fully with both. When it gets to the point where I personally can say that I have gone onto our back-end system, do a search, and find 5, systems infected with unique copies of a polymorphic threat that released into the wild twenty minutes ago and -NOBODY- detects, not even SecureAnywhere Well, that's why I work for this company now.
The technology is amazing, the system is amazing, and I can put 17 years of security industry experience behind that statement. When they got an infection that was brand new again, nothing at all detected it , I was able to remove it remotely via the SecureAnywere web console rather than having to use ComboFix or any other big group of stuff, which is both a pain in the tail and also historically has a good chance of nuking the system ever wondered why they insist you install the recovery console?
So really, when we are saying "Try it, you can use it with other things", we really do mean it. We mean that we are offering the same compatibility that SpySweeper had, plus much more capability and flexibility, and full support just as if you were using SpySweeper with McAffee instead of SecureAnywhere with McAfee. Plus a heck of a lot more, honestly. So if SpySweeper was given the definition information for detecting more stuff that SEP detects, would it suddenly stop working because it can find more?
Not at all, since the ability to coexist is in the way it's built for the most part. But the main AntiSpyware thing, to avoid system slowdown, is the simplicity of the scanning engine and lower number of definitions I can really only give a general semi-tech overview because I cannot read minds and know all of your potential questions or concerns. You're also concerned about efficacy.
I'll be honest, given the new detection and remediation scheme, in official tests, we missed "remnants". That is, "SecureAnywhere didn't remove log files created by this threat that are text and not a threat, but we count that against them. Oh, and they didn't detect these broken downloads that the virus got that are not able to actually RUN or do anything, but the virus tried to download them so must be bad.
Especially since waiting for MEP support can be a bit of time. My response to that is simple: Without even going to the machine, a minimally-knowledgable person can see exactly what is on it,. If SecureAnywhere misses something, you look at the handful of unknown items on the machine, from the central console, say "huh, that's not one of ours.
Taken care of to the point where everything it did and everything that caused it is corrected as well. Not sure about it? SecureAnywhere also provides advanced cleanup tools for manual correction that allows for a more surgical approach than the broad-spectrum-antibiotics-but-hope-it-doesn't-kill-the-patient approach ComboFix takes Sometime take a look at what's inside ComboFix.
If you have specific questions that I have not addressed, please feel free to ask. Feel free to get the free SME trial. Test it with SEP. See what happens or doesn't happen. Check our enterprise support team out. Don't take anybody's word for it. Get your own knowledge and be free of any FUD at all.
David "The bigger question is then, will other antivirus programs work properly when SecureAnywhere is installed? If you look at it from a business standpoint, it's in their interest to choke when we're installed. Then it's just a matter of convincing the user it's our fault and use them alone.
After all, many people don't understand layered security and have the mistaken thought that if we catch something RandomAV doesn't, then they will blame RandomAV for it and get rid of them. Bad idea, since it also work the other way around, and they can ctach stuff we won't. It's the security versus usability tradeoff of course. Similar efficacy, different sets missed, but size and cost differences that are dramatic. MajorGeeks Windows Tweaks. System Tools. Smart Defrag. K-Lite Mega Codec Pack.
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