Surfing on the Internet should be a worry free, safe and smooth experience. But as we know, we do not live in a perfect world. With new security threats being unleashed daily, can we experience the information superhighway safely?
Yes! With Sunbelt Software’s CounterSpy. CounterSpy is highly customizable, and comes with the required security features.
CounterSpy, not being resource hungry, runs in the background, and like many other anti-spywares does not clamp down your computers speed, and is Vista compatible.
Features:
CounterSpy, executing as a background process, can detect adware and spyware threats, averting them before they work thier way onto your computer. CounterSpy being an authoritative anti-spyware offers not just online protection, but since spyware and adware normally pose a threat, mostly by accessing and electronically transferring the user’s personal information like names, banking details, recently searched for phrases and/or words; to the party’s creating these spywares, CounterSpy also offers privacy protection options, which includes erasing your browser’s cache and history.
Other regular features include an auto update, which logs in, and connects to Sunbelt Software’s server and automatically updates new spyware and adware signatures; and the scan scheduler, which makes life easier by scanning your computer at scheduled times.
Effectiveness:
CounterSpy is rather effective as, compared to some other anti-spywares being used. It scans for almost all malwares, we tested it with some spywares like Hotbar, vertumode variant and spycrush, which are relatively new, they were detected during the first scan itself. The auto-update feature makes CounterSpy indispensable.
Like other anti-spywares, CounterSpy does offer a resident shield which runs as a process in the background and as mentioned earlier is not resource hungry, even on a laptop equipped only with 256MB of RAM.
The effectiveness, and the security settings can be fine tuned by an advance user, which is again a step forward as compared to most other anti-spywares. Users can decide if they require the resident shield to be running, or can select what to scan and where to scan among other customization options.
Ease of Use:
CounterSpy is extremely user-friendly and the installation is a breeze. It has an easy to use interface well suited for both, advance and novice users. The installation process does not take much time. The software is up and running within a few minutes, requiring only a few clicks.
Customer Support:
Help is at your finger tips, if required. CounterSpy Support can be reached using a toll-free number, technical support number or using email. On testing their help – line, it was very clear that the personnel are extremely customer friendly and the most responsive customer support unit there is, at the least in the anti-spywares domain.
CounterSpy also includes an extensive built-in help application. It is extremely advisable to go through the help application provided within the software before calling technical or customer support, but if you do get a little lost, feel free to call support, they are more than willing to help.
Summary:
Sunbelt Softwares, overall has done an extremely professional, and efficient job while creating CounterSpy. Sunbelt has seen to it that the software caters to both professionals, and home users, by not just making CounterSpy user friendly and customizable, but also, by pricing it reasonably. In the end, CounterSpy does what it is supposed to, efficiently and with ease. It is highly recommended by us, especially if you are frequently online, and want to safe guard your privacy as well as your computer, while surfing the internet.
Minimum system Requirements:
• Internet Explorer 5.5 +
• 400MHZ+ PC
• 128MB+ RAM
• Windows 2000 Pro SP3 +
• Windows XP (32bit only)
• Windows Vista (32bit only)
• 150MB of hard drive space
Download:
The download is approximately 36MB. You can download a 15 day full evaluation from http://www.sunbelt-software.com/Home-Home-Office/CounterSpy/Download/
