Customer Reviews
Spy Sweeper v5.5... problems!- My solution"s"...! 
2007-11-16
I am a software tech-
1. I Disable the "!Memory Shield!", Favourites, & "!Ad Sites!" shields-
they are BAD Resource Hogs (really slow surfing!)!
a. Do daily COMPLETE "Custom (& enable Rootkit...!)" scans (about 6min.+- , & defrag, if slow!).
2. I had nothing but BAD problems with SSP's new v5.5... (MANY others do too!)! My solution!-
I requested a download link from SSP support, for their previous "Rock Solid...!" v5.3.2.2361 (do not EVER download pgm updates, JUST auto-definitions...!)!
a. Supposedly similar detection rates...?- Just not Vista ready.
ENJOY!
didnt clear my trojan problem 
2007-11-12
My computer finally had to be wiped to restore operation and when I tried it in my laptop afterwards it became a virus that locked up my laptop until removed!!! thirty bucks down the toilet!!!
Beware of WEBROOT software 2007-09-25
To any interested parties - a downloaded copy of WEBROOT SPY SWEEPER has caused constant problems with my machine.
I am kept running with outside business interests and don't have time to stay up to date on the latest computer issues. On Jul 22 07 I downloaded Spy Sweeper and within a few weeks began experiencing occasional lock-ups when starting my computer. These gradually increased in frequency and severity until it was necessary to restart my machine 3 or 4 times before it would run. After trying everything I could think of, I uninstalled Webroot Spy Sweeper on Sunday 9/23/07 and BINGO, no further problems.
Today I called Webroot customer service to cancel my subscription and ask for a refund and was told very curtly that no refund would be given.
(running WindowsXP; 1G ram)
Webroot Spy Sweeper 2006-11-02
I was shocked when someone had cracked my password for my counter strike and online bank account login. I had always been reluctant to buy any anti spy software because I thought it was a waste of my money. Boy, was I wrong, all that downloading had given me a keylogger where someone was able to access my account from GOD knows where. After this tragedy, I decided it was time to do some anti spyware research. After spending numerous hours I found webroot spyware 5.2 to be the answer. It doesn't slow my computer down like a lot of people have said, honestly, if you have an old piece of ****, its time to get a new computer and you can buy a new one for like $400 bucks these days. And if you call them, and tell them to give you a $10 dollar off because you had an coupon code that didn't work at there website, THEY GIVE IT TO YOU..wholly molly, I bought my for $19.95 =) I just download the software and enter my license file and BANG! Today as I was browsing website, I can tell you that it WORKS, i purposely went into Porno website and it blocked off all the damn popups.
My short review 
2006-06-06
Overall, I was pretty impressed with what Webroot offered in their SpySweeper program. It had some nice features to go along with keeping spyware and ad's undercontrol (ad-blocker). The older build of the software program operated the same when you upgrade to the newest build. The program would always alert you when there was a potential risk of spyware and would constantly monitor your internet traffic for risks. One thing I didn't like about the program was the fact that is was a bit of a resource hog. I've got a decent amount of RAM in my system, but it bogged things down in a sense...My mistake though in the end, cause I also used Norton alongside it, so that was probably why, but I had to reformat one time and put SpySweeper on my system first and it still took up quite a bit of resources. To conclude, SpySweeper is a reliable program that will protect against threats of spyware and I'm sure the program will get better over the years.
Best software of the year and technical excellence! 2006-04-24
Spy Sweeper defends your PC and your personal information from the fast-growing threats to privacy you'll encounter online!
Version 4.5.9 (build 709) Works better than others 2006-04-21
I suddenly started having odd windows popup. I ran and reran Adware the paid version not the freebie. It found a few things. This went on for a couple of weeks and after the daily updates nothing changed. I kept getting popups.. So I downloaded spybot as well and ran it. It found a couple of more things but still the popups came... I downloaded the free scan from spy sweeper and ran it.. It found 2 memory resident ezula and clkoptimizer right off the bat..... It also successfully cleaned these as well.. It also found many more items.. This after scanning with 2 other products.......
Another Major benefit is the adblocker :) It will block known ad vendors ads if you turn that on.. Hehe now i get alot of those page cannot be displayed where ads are supposed to be ;)
well worth the little $ for 2 years
Nice product that really worked! 2005-12-21
I purchased this software from the advice of a computer geek at one of the larger electronic chains (BB). I was having horrible trouble with ads which totally locked up my computer. Then, I installed this product and never had a problem since (unless the computer software industry and MS come out with sometype of other computer attacking scheme- hmmm). Of course, I have not tried any other products to zap adware, just this one, but I was very surprised that it worked so well. Also, each time one of those ads does get through (it's a large marketing tactic), I just email webroot and they seem to come out with an update to help! Great customer service too (I guess it takes an overseas company to do things right...sorry for the extra tidbits)
Spysweeper offers great protection 2005-05-15
I am satisfied with spysweeper
today it's not enuff to have anti virus software and a firewall
need to also have Spy sweeper, easy to set up and use
webroot continues to makes quality products
I highly recommend this one for Windows users
Had A Problemo 
2005-03-28
A Webroot spyware cleaner/blocker came with my earthlink 2005 upgrade. Shortly after install I noticed my computer (XP/sp2)was hesitating every few seconds. Looked at the performance tab in the windows task manager (Ctrl Alt Del) and saw the CPU usage was surging to 100% several times a minute causing the hesitation. This seemed to be an interaction with McAfee virus auto protect as activity of McAfee in processes would jump with the CPU wave. Killed the webroot blocker and all was back to normal. This product may be good for cleaning, but avoid using the full time blocking feature as the system resources will suffer.
