Anyone going to give the new PC Tools AV a spin?

is it just me, or is it still called VirusBuster 2006?

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anyway, back to PCTOOLS.


VERY respectable for a free AV though.

 

And so far only free actually worth using in corporate/business environments.
Others are allowed only for home use and ClamWIN and Comodo do not really meet the detection. PCTools does and is not limited to home use.
That could be a major plus for those who want to protect their work laptop and not paying anything.

 

would ya? Well, i suppose its just a different opinion and if you aren't a risky user, maybe your right/wrong. Depends on the user really doesn't it?

 

I've uninstalled it. I can understand why they are offering it for free. It's got a long way to go before it can be considered a finished product.

Both Avast home & Avira personal run better on my notebook.

smart update annoyed me
doesn't offer much in terms of features compared to competitors
didn't block eicar test file, whatever I tried. Although it (only) detected it with on-demand scan
UI is not as polished as competitors aswell

 

Er... any further comments?

The essentials are there. What else do you need?

The realtime guard is configured only to scan active processes by default. If you want it to scan newly-created files, even if they're not executed, you need to change the settings.

I don't like the fact that it doesn't respect font smoothing either.

 

Update notification used to pop-up everyday, to okay updates.

The bottom line is that it didn't run as well as nor better than Avast Home or Avira Personal on my system. (one e.g. boot time took longer)

 

A setting is available to automatically update without asking you. By default the program only checks for updates and asks for your approval.

You're welcome to your opinion, but you do have some rather... ahem... interesting justifications for that opinion.

 

well this is just my experience on my system with PCTOOLSAV. It's not a technical review. Nor prejudice against the company.

System performance is the most important thing to me. Every system, setup, and user is different that's why there's no magic (security) solution for everyone.