For less intrusion, the respective System Guards feature includes a built-in whitelist of trustworthy Windows executables, while the others can be disregarded further on if the user wishes so.
There’s room for user discretion here as the suite asks whether an app should be allowed to launch. The scan report is extremely informative, listing the detected items with detailed descriptions and the entire hierarchy of the malware components.Īs part of its functional routine, SpyHunter alerts the user on potentially suspicious processes whenever an unknown application attempts to execute. In our case this initial scan took a little more than 20 minutes, which might appear somewhat time-consuming but its scrupulousness and returned results definitely make up for the wait.
The update is immediately followed by a Quick Scan getting launched automatically. The setup phase being completed, Enigma Updater downloads the latest malware definitions, which is a matter of literally a minute.
Once clicked on, the Wise Installation Wizard downloads the software proper to the system, the only manual technicalities being EULA acceptance, selection of the preferred language out of 14 available, and the opt-out suggestion of allowing the suite to protect Internet Explorer homepage settings. The stub installer which is only 712 KB large is tailored to provide smooth, intuitive and non-intrusive setup. Getting SpyHunter up and running is neither complex nor lengthy.
Overall, the well-balanced mix of System Scan, unique Spyware HelpDesk, the behavioral analysis by System Guards functionality, and the Compact OS features make this suite highly effective for real-time detection and cleanup of known and new malware regardless of its severity. In this context, it makes sense pointing out the thoroughness of the scanning process – SpyHunter managed to detect the threats that competing software missed on the test machine used for our software evaluations. The Scan Scheduler feature allows configuring the suite to automatically run scans at a certain time on a daily, weekly or monthly basis. By default, the program runs a quick scan immediately after completion of the setup process in order to diagnose the computer’s current security state from the start, which is a great idea in terms of appropriate defense provision. One of the key benefits of using SpyHunter is the fact that it features a number of free scanning options: quick, full system and custom scan.