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Product: StopZilla Price: $29.99 Company Info: StopZilla! Editor Rating: 1 star | ![]() Click for more info |
Pros
+ Compact user interface
Cons
- Very poor protection against Spyware
StopZilla! Product Review
While StopZilla is a well-marketed product with a compelling website (and was even mentioned on Jeopardy!), the product itself protects against very few spyware programs.
Usability
StopZilla! installed without a hitch directly from their website, even on our heavily infested test PC. After a re-boot, StopZilla! was ready to scan for the first time.
When you first start the program, you'll see a small "toast" window that contains the scan results. StopZilla has only two functions - scan and remove.

Spyware Removal
Scanning was very fast, although upon inspection of the results it was apparent why. The program failed to detect most of the spyware in our Spyware Effectiveness test. While it did detect a few common programs, it missed almost everything on our PC and scored a meager 7% overall.
Rollback
StopZilla! has no rollback features - if you accidentally delete a necessary system file, there's no way to recover it.
Customer Support
StopZilla appears to offer very thorough customer support. However, we did not test it because of the poor results we saw in our testing.
Other Options
As mentioned above, StopZilla! is very light on features. It does not include a scheduler and so you'll need to regularly run a scan while you're working on your PC.
Summary
StopZilla's great marketing can't make up for this dog of a product. We recommend you take a pass.
Purchase Price: $29.99
Free Trial: Yes
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