PC Tools faults many of the stated troubles with conflicts with antivirus and low level drivers for their hardware. Michael Green, VP of product strategy at PC Tools, suggested that the firm’s frankness in running a forum, unlike several of its competitors, had a undesirable rebounding effect. The forum had overstated the obvious figure of security bug reports. Nonetheless he agreed that users were more "vocal" with reference to troubles with Spyware Doctor version 5 than Spyware Doctor version 4, even though he disagreed with our evaluation that diversity and number of criticisms with Spyware Doctor 5 was out of the usual.

"We are taking these problems critically and using limited updates, which can be downloaded in the background, to deal with bugs. Our software is compartmentalized so that we don’t have to create and publish a key security update.

"The forum is previously showing signs that users - evidently those without software conflicts - favor version 5 to version 4," Green added. Directing us towards a thread on the PC Tools Forum.

Now for a little better news for PC Tool. Google is to begin delivery of a lighter, free version of Spyware Doctor 5.0. A Free Google Pack edition of Spyware Doctor supplies spyware detection and removal as well as on-access real-time security.

Google Pack includes an assortment of Google software applications: Google Earth, Google Desktop, Picasa, Google Toolbar, Google Photos Screensaver, the Google Talk VoIP client and Google Video Player. It also includes the partner software Mozilla Firefox, Adobe Reader, Norton Security Scan, RealPlayer, GalleryPlayer HD Images, Skype. Spyware Doctor has been added the the software package of free software applications designed to make life easier for home computer users to prepare the software for their new computers.

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