CounterSpy is produced by Sunbelt Software. This company provides good security programs and high level antispyware software. CounterSpy 7.0 version is an updated version of this antispyware. The 2009 version it has few new features and improvements and good detection effectiveness. We tested CounterSpy on our systems and we found this antispyware easy to use and powerful. You can download free trial copy of CounterSpy 7 from our site or from Sunbelt Software website. This trial version can be installed and used for 15 days. After this period you must purchase a license from Sunbelt website. Installation process is simple and with just few mouse clicks you have installed a strong antispyware suite. CounterSpy asks if you want to change some default settings, like update definition time, level of risk and real time protection. You can customize this software to run quick scan of entirely hard disk or you can adjust the level of protection if you think your computer may be a risk. You may change the hour of scheduled scanning or you can remove it entirely this setting.
The user menu is very simple, easy to use and intuitive. It is designed for beginners and can be used by a not very skilled computer user without any problems. The removal process is simple too, and can be performed in just few steps.
Another feature of CounterSpy is the type of scanning. You can run Quick Scans if you are confident that your computer has no big problems or you can run Deep Scan of your hard disk if you think that your computer is infected.
CounterSpy 7 version if has high capability to detect: spyware, malware threats, hijackers, unwanted and dangerous start up programs, active-x controls and other few web threats.
CounterSpy is not a high resources consuming and it can be installed and used on a non-powerful computer. Usually, this antispyware runs well with just about 35MB of RAM consuming and it needs about 700MHz of processor to run properly. These values can be updated if the computer performs a full scan and the antispyware it found a threat.
The detection rate of CounterSpy 2009 is very good and you can count on this software if you want to be protected against unwanted threats. The removal effectiveness of CounterSpy is very good and just few points make the difference from our first ranking antispyware software.
For this review we tested Counter Spy on different computers and configurations but we find this version to be very easy to use, light on system resources and with a high level of detection and removal effectiveness.
