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PC Tools Internet Security (4-year Edition)

PC Tools Internet Security (4-year Edition)

PC Tools Internet Security (4-year Edition): 2.5 stars; ( 5 reviews)

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4-years of internet security protection - perfect for college students!

PC Tools Internet Security delivers powerful protection against online threats, incorporating antispyware, antivirus, antispam, and firewall components into an easy-to-use online security solution. Integrated Behavior Guard blocks new threats faster than traditional security products, while Browser Defender™ protects against web-based attacks like phishing attempts and malicious downloads.

Built on award-winning Spyware Doctor antispyware technology
ThreatFire™ Behavioral Intelligence features technology to block new threats faster than traditional signature methods
Advanced rootkit detection technology identifies and removes hidden threats from your PC
Memory Scanner helps eradicate threats lurking on your PC
Download Guard stops new threats by checking your downloads against a cloud-based network
Multi-layered browsing protection against web-based attacks
Site Guard blocks you from visiting potentially unsafe or phishing websites
Cookie Guard automatically removes potentially malicious tracking and advertising cookies
Automated Firewall defends against cybercriminals
Advanced spam filtering utilizes intuitive behavioral technology to detect spam
Includes AntiSpam toolbars for popular email clients including Microsoft® Outlook® and Mozilla® Thunderbird®

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PC Tools Internet Security (4-year Edition)

2.6

(based on 5 reviews)

40%

of respondents would recommend this to a friend.

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- Primary use:
- Personal (4)
- Computer Platform:
- PC (4)

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Reviewed by 5 customers

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1/29/2012

1.0

Version 9 (V9) significantly slows Win 7

By Jeff

from Chicago IL

About Me Midrange Shopper

Pros

Easy To Set Up

Cons

Inefficient

Best Uses

none

Comments about PC Tools Internet Security (4-year Edition):

PC Tools V9 (which PC Tools immediately recommends you update too for no charge) as V8 (included in the box) is going away, has significant performance issues.

Version 8, the previous version was very fast and worked great. Version 9, after running a Full Scan for virus,etc. slows down the computer to almost unusable. Sometimes a reboot fixes the problem, other times not. Return the computer to verion 8 and everything is fast. The problem lies that version 8 is no longer going to be supported. I have contacted PC Tools technical support and been advanced to a higher level. However, after sending the information they requested 5 days ago via email, they still have not returned any contact with me. With a Win 7 and a Quad processor and 8 GB ram, I need fast performance, not performance that takes 1 minute to open IE 9. I have opted to change to a different virus protection software.

I summary, I can not recommend PC Tools Version 9.

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1/3/2012

1.0

will never buy pc tools again

By american artist

from clayton ny

About Me Value Oriented

Pros

Cons

Slows Down System

Best Uses

Comments about PC Tools Internet Security (4-year Edition):

pc ran fine before install. now slower than molasses. its always scanning, very fustrating. no troubleshooting menu either

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12/17/2011

(2 of 2 customers found this review helpful)

5.0

Exceptional "suite" of security tools.

By Disenchanted

from New Mexico

About Me Quality Oriented

Pros

Bootable recovery disc
Easy To Install
Easy To Navigate
Powerful
Scan networked devices

Cons

Can slow system

Best Uses

Create RESCUE CD
Educational Purposes
Home Use
Malware removal
Multimedia

Comments about PC Tools Internet Security (4-year Edition):

1. I have to remove virus and malware infections as part of my IT job. While our corporate license is for Symantec's software, there are times when stubborn "infections" of malware and/or wirus' remain after all cleaning attempts by symantec.

2. I have used PC Tools Spyware doctor to root out and remove such stubborn infections.

3. One easy way is to create the PC TOOLS bootable recovery CD and then boot an infected PC from that recovery CD. PC Tools will have full access to the Windows OS and be able to remove infections that might normally be inaccessible if windows is up and running.

4. Personally, I have PC tools 3-user license running on 3 different OS's and everything loads and runs fine.
The 3 OS's are : XP Home, Vista ultimate and Win 7.

5. If there was one thing that could be improved, it is the speed of the software's scanning/cleaning.
If a scan is running on your PC, it can be hard to do other tasks.
That is why I schedule all PC scans to run at about 02:00, when everyone is sleeping.

6. It could be easy to look at a software review that states that PC Tools "slows my PC" and then not buy the product because of this issue.
But if you schedule the scan during your off-hours, that would not be an issue.

Bottom line - any security software that scans and removes virus and/or malware is going to have to run until completion.

Sure you can pick a "quick scan" from a scanning program, but you have to understand that a "quick scan" and "full scan" do NOT perform the same "depth" or "thoroughness" of determining that your PC is clean.
The scanning time for a "complete" system scan does not vary that much between anti-virus vendors. (Unless a vendor wrote very poor software code that scans twice as long as it should) It will take every vendor
a certain "scan-time-per-file" in order to check and ascertain that each file is clean.
If your PC has 500,000 files, it will take time to scan the complete hard drive.

Personally I trust PC Tools to do a thorough job of protecting my PCs, even if the scan time is not the world's fastest.
I have also used other vendor's programs for home PC security. You could probably pick any of the "top 10" vendor's security programs and get good results.
A good measuring stick is how fast do vendor's respond to "NEW" virus threats and how fast do they find a way to remove those new infections.