Aluria Software Aluria Security Center/Spyware Eliminator Review

Overall Rating

ALURIA SPYWARE ELIMINATOR - In my opinion - a hazardous product! Beware! Very good marketing and they take your money without any trouble.... but that's all I got out of it.... apart from a ton of trouble!

It caused my computer to completely cease up.... twice!!!!

I purchased Aluria Spayware Eliminator having been impressed with reviews and the fact that it was from what I thought to be a reputable company. Having downloaded and installed it I experienced a complete slow down of my computer during the necessary reboot. The XP logon screen just froze except for the cursor and the hard disk ticked over at what appeared to be an infinitely slow speed. The hard disk light just flashed now and again and there appeared to be some small progress but not enough to even allow me to log on after ten minutes or so! I feared that I had been hit by a pest or a virus and rebooted several times in a atempt to get back in and try and find it, but the machine almost came to a standstill each time. Although once it actually got to a bare desktop after about 15 minutes. I tried all ways to reboot - safe mode, MSDOS mode, normal mode, windows XP start disk (which isn't easy to create for XP NTFS systems) but all failed. I decided to repair Windows but it also failed - it wouldn't accept the administrator's password. Everything appeared to come to a halt once XP was invoked. In desperation I reinstalled Windows over itself, which lost all the installed programmes, although with some judicious playing with ownership and security permissions I did manage to salvage all the users' files. It was now 3.10am and I'd just got to where I was when I started... and installed the Aluria software again!!!! (Still not suspecting it was the cause). As soon as I rebooted the logon screen froze again! I now realised that it was the Spyware Eliminator software that was the cause. This time the safe mode worked (thankfully) and I've uninstalled it. The computer imediately rebooted to its normal state confirming that the Aluria software was to blame.

I've looked for info on the web about conflicts with other software. Nothing other than the previous review where it is apparently incompatible with McAfee. I use Eset NOD32. Is there a conflict with that virus software too?

I've yet to get a view from the suppliers.. it's all happened on a Saturday and Sunday morning.... Lost nearly a whole day!!!! Bad experience all round.