Thoughts on PC tools Antivirus

[gery]

i wanted to try PCTOOLS Antivirus alongside with TF and i wanted some advice about this combo? thanks in advance

[Pseudo]

-{ Quote: "i wanted to try PCTOOLS Antivirus alongside with TF and i wanted some advice about this combo? thanks in advance" }-
PC Tools' antivirus is very decent, but I'd say it's unstable for long-term use due to being bought out by Symantec.

[bellgamin]

PCTools AV is well-known to have begun life as a clone of VirusBuster, a perennial upper-second-tier AV program. It's okay, I guess.

By the way, PCTool's AV is built into Threatfire (TF) (http://www.threatfire.com/), a free behavior-blocker-type-HIPS. TF uses PCT's AV for on-demand look-up. So, if you run TF, you will have PCT's AV on-the-job as well -- a fine combo... and free!

[gery]

Would Avira free be a better choice in terms of coexisting AV? I would like to know because AVG 8 paid had some freezing problems and they did not go well in the same computer,

[hbkh]

-{ Quote: "PC Tools' antivirus is very decent, but I'd say it's unstable for long-term use due to being bought out by Symantec." }- When did this happen? ???

[gery]

a while ago

[hex_614]

pc tools antivirus 5.0 has some bugs. it needs to fix first.

[gery]

What sort of bugs do you refer to? I had it for a while and it never gave anything ran fine and smooth

[icr]

you use avg 8 thats much better than pctools av:lurking: :lurking: :lurking:

[bellgamin]

-{ Quote: "What sort of bugs do you refer to? I had it for a while and it never gave anything ran fine and smooth" }-PCT's AV runs just fine. It is just as bug-free & stable as other antivirus programs (NONE of which are 100% perfect, of course). The PCT AV lags a bit behind the top-tier AVs in terms of detection as well as (possibly) its heuristics/emulator proficiency.

[Dr. Lucien Sanchez]

I've heard many good things about this Antivirus. Just wondering how resource friendly this is?

[jdd58]

PCtools AV is easily the lightest AV I’ve tried, and like AVG8 it does not require a reboot upon install.

I had no problems with it at all except for a conflict with SandboxIE, probably due to the introduction of the memory guard.

I don’t know if it has very good, if any, termination resistance as some of the other free AV’s do. I did run it for a while with Online Armor Free for a while for added termination resistance with good results.

The only downside is always wondering if it protects you as well as another free AV would.

[EliteKiller]

-{ Quote: "I've heard many good things about this Antivirus." }-
If PCTAV were "good" then this forum would have an enormous amount of positive threads devoted to it. Unfortunately that is not the case. PCT Spyware Doctor suffers a similar fate.

[gery]

-{ Quote: "If PCTAV were "good" then this forum would have an enormous amount of positive threads devoted to it. Unfortunately that is not the case. PCT Spyware Doctor suffers a similar fate." }-
There is not much talking about AVAST either but this does not mean that it is not a good product so the forum discussion is not a sufficient indicator that a certain product is or is not a good one .

[EliteKiller]

-{ Quote: "There is not much talking about AVAST either but this does not mean that it is not a good product so the forum discussion is not a sufficient indicator that a certain product is or is not a good one ." }-
I beg to differ; there are plenty of threads discussing avast in one form or another. I suppose I was a little vague in my previous post, but there's no question that if you search for avast you'll find it mentioned in over 1000 threads vs. a handful with the search term pctools. Sift thru the reputable comparatives and other reviews for more info.

Has PCT scrapped the VirusBuster engine completely?

[clocks]

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By the way, PCTool's AV is built into Threatfire (TF) (http://www.threatfire.com/), a free behavior-blocker-type-HIPS. TF uses PCT's AV for on-demand look-up. So, if you run TF, you will have PCT's AV on-the-job as well -- a fine combo... and free!" }-

Are you saying it would be pointless to use PCT_AV in conjunction with TF, that you could get the same protection with TF alone?