• Latest protection from unknown threats

- Spyware Doctor now has Behavior Guard, providing you with the latest pro-active behavioral-based technology against zero-day (never seen before) threats. Built on the award-winning ThreatFire technology, Behavior Guard has been seamlessly incorporated into Spyware Doctor to offer you leading protection. This new technology protects you when some anti-virus products give up! Read more about behavior-based protection.

• Improved detection capabilities:

- Spyware Doctor has been enhanced to improve detection effectiveness. In particular, each individual signature created in the threat database is optimized so that it is capable of detecting multiple variations of malware threats (threat variants) while maintaining minimal system resource usage (memory footprint).

• Swift clean-up for heavily infected computers:

- Spyware Doctor is able to detect and remove threats on heavily infected computers faster and easier than ever before. Sometimes your computer is so highly infected that you may find yourself unable to install or run security software except when in the ‘safe mode’ of Windows.
- In these cases, malware consumes computer resources so resulting in lengthy scanning and removal times. is now armed with the technology to scan in safe mode faster and more effectively by forcing your computer to take a higher priority over the scan than the malware and other software attempting to run on your system.

• Improved Hacker Defense :

- Further improvements have been included to enhance our own defense against malware threats attempting to interfere with the effectiveness of Spyware Doctor . Our hacker defense system means you can rest assured that your computer system has the most comprehensive protection while ensuring that malware threats don’t impede on the functionality or effectiveness of Spyware Doctor.
- The new hacker defense utilizes a particular feature available in Windows Vista (known as ASLR) to make it difficult for hackers to exploit or gain control over Spyware Doctor .

• Other enhancements:

o Support for Windows Security Centre in Windows Vista Service Pack 1
o The real-time protection module is now referred to as Intelli Guard®
o Enhanced error reporting to assist with diagnosis of program crashes (hackers!).