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But, there is another free version, a "Starter Edition". The bottom of the product's home page says: "The Starter Edition offers full scan and removal of threats, and basic real-time protection, is available for free as part of the Google Pack.

You can see the difference between the free Starter Edition and the full version. In short, the Starter Edition will find and remove spyware and adware on a par with the paid version. What it's lacking, is most of the protection features that prevent infection in the first place.

Interestingly, this is almost the mirror image of the free trial which offers all the protection, but none of the removal. The Starter Edition even offers tech support by email, the paid version adds phone support. The Google Pack download page , shown above, let's you pick and chose applications.

You can download just Spyware Doctor by itself, which I did. The Google download and install process is straightforward. However, even though it said Spyware Doctor was up-to-date, that was not the case. The just-installed software was old in two respects. According to PC Tools, the latest version is 5. The Spyware Doctor self-update facility called "smart update" found a bunch of missing updates and easily installed them.

But, even after bringing it up to date and re-booting, the version number remained 5. You may forgive things like this since Google Pack is in beta, but Google has re-defined the term beta, their software retains that label for years on end. Google Pack, in particular, was first released two years ago. Old software though, was the least of my problems.

Spyware Doctor seemed to be conducting a denial of service attack on me. It program swdsvc. Mind you, I hadn't asked it to do anything other than update itself. If software thinks it knows best, fine.

But it should ask the user before doing something resource intensive, or, at least, say what's going on and let the user cancel it. Spyware Doctor didn't indicate that it was doing anything, so I shut it down to prevent the machine from overheating. You may prefer your anti-malware software to run quietly in the background and not ask you or tell you anything about what it's doing. But that shouldn't be the default behavior. And there is no excuse for not indicating somewhere in the user interface what's going on.

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