My wife managed to download this jewel by clicking a link to watch a video on Facebook. The damn thing blew right past McAfee and Windows Defender. Regrettably, Spy Sweeper is now such a memory hog that it slows our computer to the point of hair pulling misery. Given this, it was disabled at the time.
The descriptions above are all cutesey and imply that this beast is simply an annoyance. On the contrary, it really corrupted stretches of the hard drive and deleted (or worse, stole) every file in our personal folder including spreadsheets, word docs, and thousands of family photos. True, it is easy enough to remove in safe mode but even the required system restore could not recover any of our personal files. Even now, our system isn’t right.
I’d like very much to choke the living shit out of the losers that wrote this program. It’s a shame these people don’t direct their energy toward world peace. War and crime would be history.