Shutting Down Spy Sweeper

When you are viewing the Spy Sweeper window, as shown in Understanding the Spy Sweeper Window, you can click Close when you are finished setting up Spy Sweeper. Clicking Close closes the window, but keeps the Spy Sweeper program open in the system tray (lower-right corner of your screen) to protect your computer.

If you have set up any scheduled sweeps or have set Spy Sweeper shields (continuous monitoring), you should keep it open. You know it is open if you see the icon in the system tray in the lower-right corner of your screen.

If you want to completely stop Spy Sweeper, you can shut down the program. You need to shut down Spy Sweeper before you install a new version of Spy Sweeper.

To shut down Spy Sweeper:

Right-click the Spy Sweeper icon in your system tray and select Shut Down from the pop-up menu.
The system tray is in the lower-right corner of your screen.
Spy Sweeper warns you that your computer will not be protected if you shut down Spy Sweeper.
Click Shut Down to shut down Spy Sweeper.
To start Spy Sweeper, so that your shields and scheduled sweeps will run, see Starting Spy Sweeper.