SUPERAntiSpyware (10.0.1208) – Free Edition

The Rating Scale Breakdown:

• 0  – 0.5 – Abysmal
• 1.0 – 1.5 – Terrible
• 2.0 – 2.5 – Poor
• 3.0 – 3.5 – Average
• 4.0 – 4.5 – Great
• 5.0 – Excellent

• Undetermined – Too soon to tell or lacking evidence to provide a solid answer
• Not Tested – Has yet to be requested or there is some limitations to prevent accurate test results
• N/A – Not Available and or Not Applicable to this program

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V. 8.0 C – “SAS” Freeware Review Template

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Price: Free

A. Installation SUPERAntiSpyware – 5.0 “Excellent” – Fast, Safe and Simple

B. Un-installing SUPERAntiSpyware – 3.5 “Average“ – No start menu un-install feature. But you can un-install using your Windows control panel.

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C. Stability Of Program – 5.0 “Excellent” – Absolutely no stability Issues

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D. Residential Shield Test – N/A – Not available In Free version

DD. Browser Hi-Jack And Registry Protection – N/A – Not available In Free version

DDD. System Repair Option – N/A – Not available In Free version

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E. Detection Rate Test:

E1. Windows XP – 5.0 “Excellent“

E2. Windows Vista – 5.0 “Excellent“

E3. Windows 7 – 5.0 “Excellent“

E4. Windows 8 – 5.0 “Excellent“

E4. Windows 10 – 5.0 “Excellent“

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F. Speed of Scan – 5.0 “Excellent“ – It might just be me. But it seems scan times have gone down in this latest version of SUPERAntiSpyware.

FF. Scan Boost – 5.0 “Excellent” – This option seems to have vastly improved (yet again). So much so even my dual core computers have show at least a 10 to 20 mins differences between using regular or “Low Boost” as oppose to “High Boost” scanning options.

FFF. Types Of Different Scans Available – 5.0 “Excellent” – With 5 different types of scans to suite your fancy. SuperAntiSpyware has all the different types of scans you’ll need. For any job you want to tackle.

G.Update Manager – 4.5 “Great“ – Needs to be updated manually. But works like a charm with no lag at all.

H. Scan Logs – 3.5 “Average” – The logs could be quite a bit easier to read. But they are in the same league as most programs in this category.

I. SUPERAntiSpyware Support – 3.5 “Average“ – You have their “Customer Support Request Form” or “User Forum” options.

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My Overall Score: 60/65

92.3 % = A +

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My Overall Outlook: SUPERAntiSpyware still remains an extremely effective anti-spyware / malware program. (Even in it’s freeware version package.) You are not choked to death with excessive over the top software limitations, like so many other freeware programs out there. You are still required to update SUPERAntiSpyware manually and you can still use SUPERAntiSpywares 5 different scanning options (minus of course the scan scheduler option).

The only 2 very minor downsides that I can see, are that you have to manually scan and manually update SuperAntiSpyware yourself. (But for most people that is not even a very big deal. Because we already do it anyways with so many other free programs such as Spybot, Malwarebytes and AVG)

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Here is the download link to SUPERAntiSpyware Free Edition:

1. http://www.superantispyware.com/download.html (SUPERAntiSpyware Main Site)

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Aimersoft’s DVD Creator for Windows (2.6.4) – Full Review

The Rating Scale Breakdown:

• 0  – 0.5 – Abysmal
• 1.0 – 1.5 – Terrible
• 2.0 – 2.5 – Poor
• 3.0 – 3.5 – Average
• 4.0 – 4.5 – Great
• 5.0 – Excellent

• Undetermined – Too soon to tell or lacking evidence to provide a solid answer
• Not Tested – Has yet to be requested or there is some limitations to prevent accurate test results
• N/A – Not Available and or Not Applicable to this program

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V. 3.0 F – Aimersoft’s DVD Creator for Windows (2.6.4) Review Template

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Price: $39.95 USD/CAD

A. Installation Aimersoft’s DVD Creator for Windows – 4.5 “Great” – Pretty, fast, never conflicted with other programs during installation, and never crashed or timed out on me.

B. Un-installing Aimersoft’s DVD Creator for Windows – 4.5 “Great” – Safe, simple, seemed a little slower than the installation and removed the program 100% from my system.

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C. Stability Of Program – 4.5 “Average” – Completely stable, never crashed, timed out on me, works like a dream, but a dream that is real (LOL) and allowed me to perform multiple tasks at once.

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D. Detection Rate Test:

D1. Windows XP – Not Tested
D2. Windows Vista – Not Tested
D3. Windows 7 (x64) – 4.5 “Great“

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E. Speed of Project Creation – 4.0 “Great“ – To create a whole project with menus, background images, music, scene selects, and video selection is very easy, very quick, but I’ve found it tough to delete certain templates on those menus that seem to be embedded.

EE. Types Of Projects Templates – 4.0 “Great” – There are a selection of different template layouts that can work depending on the project you are creating.

F. Update Process – 3.5 “Average” – Very simple, effective, and easy to find, and will provide you with update notices when necessary.

G. Menu Creation – 4.0 “Great” – It’s very basic, quick, requires very little work, menus can be stagnate or dynamic, with test, buttons, sizes, layouts, and storyboards all optionable edits.

H. Video Editing – 4.5 “Great” – Video lengths can be trimmed down (in essence removing portions of the video). Video can also be cropped, flipped, have the aspect ratios changed between 16:9 and 4:3, you can change the Tv output from NTSC to PAL and back again, you can add multiple subtitles (from different languages), and enhance the video by adjusting settings such as the brightness, contrast, saturation and volume of the video. You can also add watermarks to your videos and edit how the watermark is viewed by adjusting the Transparency, Vertical/Horizontal Space, and size of the image.

I. Preview Project – 4.5 “Great” – You can get a live preview of the project you’ve created, and visible go through all of the menus, see all of the dynamic buttons, hear the background music and actually play any videos linked to any of the buttons and menus.

J. Burn DVD Options – 4.5 “Average” – Works very well, You can choose the folder Path (Location where your whole project is backed up once burn commences until the disc is finalized), as well as Burn the Project to Disc or Save the Project as an ISO on the PC. You get to choose what DVD Drive you’d like to use to burn the project to DVD. You can name your DVD by changing the text of the Disc Label.

K. Burn DVD – 4.5 “Great” – Projects created can burnt on to either DVD5 (Single Layer = 4.35GB) or DVD9 (Dual Layer = 8.60GB), and the time needed to burn projects on DVD will vary depending on whether you choose DVD5 or DVD9, and how big your project is (depending on how long your videos used for the DVD are).

L. Aimersoft’s Support – 4.0 “Great“ – With the paid version of the program, you get their “Online Help”, “Support Center” or “Contact Customer Service“.

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My Overall Score: 55.5/65

85.3 % = A

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My Final Verdict: Aimersoft’s DVD Creator for Windows is an effective. easy, professional program, a lot of it is much better than other DVD creation software programs I use. It allows you to create multiple menus per DVD project, and even allows you to use a different template per menu, with different button layouts, text options and background music on each template.

You can even make the template menus dynamic or stagnant, meaning that if dynamic, the buttons will display a live preview of the video attached to it, and you can even make the background image for that menu dynamic as well, meaning that the background can also display a live preview of the video along with dynamic button preview.

Plus the ability to edit the video before burning it to the disc is a welcome addition, especially with the ability to trim, crop or flip the videos. It’s also really nice to see a program that will allow you to change the aspect ratio of the video before burning it to a disc in the same program, as well as changing the TV output between NTSC and PAL, enhancing the video with options like saturation, contrast, brightness, volume and subtitle support are all welcome additions. Then if you’re making a professional video, the ability to add a watermark to the video, and how it is displayed on the video are also welcome additions.

Then you get the ability to display your project (menus/videos and all) in a live preview before burning it to a DVD, so you can accurately see what everything looks like and make minor adjustments before burning commences.

When it came to burning the DVD itself, you get the ability to choose where you want a backup to be saved on your system until the DVD burn is completed, you can also save the entire project in DVD format (as an ISO file), as well as the choice to change the output of the DVD between DVD5 (Single Layer) and DVD9 (Dual Layer), but the only thing you can’t really change is the speed of the DVD burn, which depends on how much video content (equals space used on the disc) you want to be burned, and that is unavoidable. Highly recommended!

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Here is a link to download Aimersoft’s DVD Creator for Windows:

1. http://www.aimersoft.com/download/dvd-creator.html (Aimersoft’s DVD Creator for Windows Download Page)

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Memorex Optifix Pro Cd/Dvd Automatic Repair Kit – Product Review –

Hello Everyone,

Today, I have the very painful and shameful job of reviewing the worst possible tech related device. I have ever purchased.

So here is the review if you have not got the point of how terrible this supposed device is. Well then you will very soon.

Well, well well, I bought this device on a whim at Walmart. I bought the Memorex Optifix Pro Cd/Dvd Automatic Repair Kit. Just to test Memorex’s so called DVD/CD repair claims.

I bought the device for $19.99 CDN. Yeah, that fact only compound the shame I feel about this impulse purchase. Now that I also bought a refill kit for another $9.99 CDN. Is more of a final nail in my shame coffin.

Then I took it home and took out 3 different DVDs with 3 different levels of damage to them. I then ran The Opti Fix Pro as the instruction indicated. And almost right away, I found at first it glance it appeared that it worked. But when I looked at it in a well lite area and took out a magnifying glass. It had actually damaged the 3 DVD worse then it started out in the first place. With visible swirl marks. That got worse ever time the device was repeated again.

Then I said to myself well my DVDs could not possibly get damaged any more. So I tried the cleaning cycle and again it look better. But yet, again Optifix left major smudge marks and it was wet to boot…WTF

CON’S

1. Cause more damages the more you use it

2. Does not work (Both the Repair cycle and Cleaning cycles)

3. Comes with chemicals one which cases major skin irritation and the other one is super corrosive

4. Cost from $9.99 to $39.99 MSRP

5. The instructions are worthless. If Optifix Pro did work it sure as hell would not work with such a small amount of paste. + there is no way that the pads would wear out after 20 uses. I’m calling  Memorex out there. Can we say out right “CASH GRAB”.

PRO’S

1. Makes a great expensive paper weight. Sadly, Optifix Pro can’t even pull that off.

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Before I render my final score. I just wanted to say I can’t believe that this pieces of junk is still sold. All be it for a more discounted prices else where.

My final overall score for the Memorex Optifix Pro Cd/Dvd Automatic Repair Kit is a 0 out of 5

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Kirbe