SUPERAntiSpyware is available as a free and professional edition. Both editions are downloadable directly from the developer website. Lets take a quick look at the differences between SUPERAntiSpyware Professional and SUPERAntiSpyware Free.
Both editions support the detection and removal of all sorts of malicious programs including malware, trojans, worms or keyloggers. Users can add files and folders to a whitelist so that they will not be processed during scans.
SUPERAntiSpyware Professional on top of this offers the following features that are not available, or limited, in the free edition:
- Ability to repair HiJacked web browsers and system settings, e.g. resetting the home page, enabling the task manager, broken network connections or desktop policies.
- A feature called First Chance Prevention which analyzes 50 critical points on system start and shut down to eliminate threats before they have a chance to infect the system.
- Threat realtime blocking by monitoring the Windows PC and processes.
- Registry protection against web browser hi-jackers and other threats.
- Auto-scanning on application startup.
- Automatic update checks and definition updates every 8 hours.
- Daily definition updates.
- System diagnostic to locate new threats on the PC.
SUPERAntiSpyware Professional Review
The security software displays a clean interface on startup. Users can press on buttons to perform manual operations. This includes scanning the system for harmful software, configuring scheduled scans, managing the quarantine, editing the program preferences and checking for updates. Update and license information are displayed there as well.
A click on Scan your computer opens the scan menu with options to scan the whole computer system or just a specific drive for malicious programs. SUPERAntiSpyware Professional users can perform a quick scan of the Windows PC, perform a complete scan or custom scan.
The quick scan scans all running programs and processes, critical Registry locations and the most common places on the connected hard drives for harmful software. The complete scan adds the selected drives to the scan list. Custom scan finally can be used to scan specific areas of the operating system (like the Registry or memory) and selected folders.
A system scan takes a while, depending on the speed of the PC and the selections that have been made. The quick scan took a few minutes to complete and results are displayed in detail on the results page. Each possible file and location found are categorized in groups and listed with their local path on the PC. It is possible to unselected items from being cleared, add items or locations to the list of trusted items, report false positives, manage the trusted items list or explain one of the detected items.
Especially the explain detected item can be helpful considering that it is not always clear why a file is being marked as being malicious. This loads a page on the SUPERAntiSpyware page with additional details about the selected item. It still may take more research to find out about a specific item. It is for instance a good idea to upload files to Virustotal for a second opinion.
All selected items will be removed by SUPERAntiSpyware Professional, and it may take a reboot of the system to clean them completely from the system. If it does a reboot is suggested by the security software to complete the process.
Scans can also be scheduled in specific intervals, for instance daily at a specific time or once a week.
All removed items are added to the program’s quarantine from where they can be restored or completely removed.
The control center offers extensive configuration options. Users should especially pay a visit to scanning control which displays scanning related settings. It is for instance possible to include non-executable files in the scan, files that are larger than 4 Megabytes or to terminate memory threats before quarantining them.
Other control center options include the previously mentioned repair options, real-time protection settings and access to scanner logs.
The program is very light on resources while running in the background. It used just a little over 1 Megabyte of system memory. Memory usage can peak at a few hundred Megabytes however during scans, but that is only temporary.
SUPERAntiSpyware Professional Installation
Users can enter the registration code during installation. Privacy conscious users need to pay attention to the installation dialog as system information may be submitted to developer servers to optimize the software. Disabling the option during installation prevents this from happening. The security program is compatible with 32-bit and 64-bit editions of all Windows operating systems from Windows 2000 on.
400Mhz or Faster Processor with at least 256MB RAM
SUPERAntiSpyware Professional Giveaway
We have ten lifetime licenses for SUPERAntiSpyware Professional. Post a comment in this review for a chance to win one of the licenses.
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I use SuperAntiSpyware free version and I must say it catches more spyware, malware, and virsus than Ad-Aware, Malwarebytes, Threatfire, Spybot Search and Destroy, Iobit 360, and Spyware blaster to name a few.By far my favorite security software. Thanks for the giveaway and I hope to win one.
Hello,
SuperAntiSpyware is one of the greatest security software out there, it is very useful and one of the best out there, it would be great to win a license, then I could add it to my security list which I think it is not very good, it would be great to win.
I’m using the free version on my desktop and will be very glad if I win a license so that I can upgrade it to pro version.k
Thanks a lot and keep up the great work here.
I already use SuperAntiSpyware Free – in cunjunction with Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware Free to scan my system. Sure I’d like to have SuperAntiSpyware Pro. Merci beaucoup Martin.
I would really like a license! :-)
I have been using the free version for too long time :-P
It’s a long time i don’t use a good spyware, i’d be glad to win that one!
I am using Malwarebytes Antimalware, but it slows down my system while scanning. I have looked up reviews of Super-antispyware and found that it is rated very highly. I would love to win a licence for this. Thanks.
hope to win a license this time :)
Martin,
Thanks for the giveaway
I use a portable version of SUPERAntiSpyware as an additional scanner. Is good at detecting and removing a lot of types of malware. I would like to try it out and used as the professional version.
Hi, thanks for this nice giveaway, SAS is one my security program, its also keep my system clean, so I really love to win one of the lifetime licenses.
Hi Martin..:)
Thanks for the giveaway opportunity and nice review. SUPERAntispyware is indeed a very good antispyware software in the market. I would appreciate if you could count me in. An antivirus is not enough for protection even though most of antivirus software has a built in antispyware.
Regards
Diaz
Super Antispyware is the best antispyware program i have ever used.
It offers the best real time protection and an excellent threat detection rate.Its rootkit scan is also very good. really need this product.Hope i win i license key.
keep up the great work.
Regards,
siddharth
i use the free version and i like it. hope i win the pro :)
i like to win a genuine license..please,count me in..SAS pro is a great anti malware software…
there has been so many anti spyware utilities, kinda hard to know which ones best?
that said, going to try this again, hope it pleases me more
I like to use the SUPERAntiSpyware Professional version because the free edition works well..
Hope I can win This Giweaway..
THX, LJBU!
I have a 90 year old neighbor that has almost not AV protection and I’m trying to install some good free s/w to keep him safe in his surfing adventures .. he needs this! Heck .. I might need this!
Thanks to ghacks for the great giveaways this month!
I use the portable version of SAS as second scanner. Has never ever failed me and it removes quite a bit of spyware that other apps have missed. Would not mid to get the lifetime pro version at all. Tnx. for the giveaway.
TEN available licenses hardly constitutes a Christmas Giveaway IMHO.
Hello Martin,
thank you for the opportunity to win this excellent software.
Best regards!
Hello Martin,
thank you for your work and this offer especially!
[x] entering the contest.
Hi,
Please count me in for SAS Pro.The real-time protection and automatic updates are worthy enough for a license.Also it is lighter on resources.The new version 5 looks very promising indeed.
Thanks Martin and SUPERAntiSpyware for the cool giveaway.
Regards
I´ve tried the free version of this software. It is a great addition to existing internet security software. Would be great to get the license and try out the professional version.
i used the normal free version a few time doing some scanning on infected. For some reason, it never once able to caught any suspicions infected files other than cookies only in any Win XP system. Even the free Malwarebyte.able to do the cleaning very well. I’m sorry and feel that this program doesn’t really help me at all in my work.
not sure if it needs to be register for full version to get the full feature works. But love to get the life time license version to test this program to proof that i am wrong.
Here is my post sorry for the one above! I forgot to add details ^^
This looks to be one of the best Anti-spy/malware products around.
I’m sure it’d catch more than Windows Defender
This software that I need to be safe while browsing on the internet, Thanks Martin and SUPERAntiSpyware for the great Giveaway
If SAS can detect trojans, worms & keyloggers as well, why does it still call itself AntiSpayware & not AntiMalware?
I use a free version of another spyware solution, but i am not afraid about it, so i will give SuperAntispyware a chance.
Thanks for giveaway..
I’m in the queue. Hope to get one licence. I use the free version of malwarebytes. very interested to compare.
Nice Christmas time