PCMatic "Super Shield"?

While I believe these things are a scam, along with doublemyspeed, maxmyspeed, mycleanpc, etc. I now noticed the PCMatic commercials say with SuperShield you will never get infected again. Has anyone tested this? Is it like DefenseWall or something, or are they outright lying?

 

Link ?

 

i lost confidence right after reading that.

 

http://www.pcpitstop.com/store/pcmatic.asp

Here's a post from a moderator from their forum:

"SuperShield is a new free add-on to further enhance the computer's protection. It works in conjunction with the PC Matic Real Time component. SuperShield will block any program that is not on the "known good" white list. PC MaticRT blocks items if they are found on our blacklist. Between the two of them, nothing should ever execute on the computer without the user's knowledge or permission.

You can right-click on the green shield icon in the lower right corner of the screen by the clock and either change the Protection Level to minimal to turn off Super Shield and just leave the Real Time protection running, or you can change to Advanced Mode and add the programs to your "Always Allow" list, provided that you know for sure that these are legitimate programs. "

Sounds kind of like Comodo, and while Comodo works well, it doesn't guarantee they will never get infected. It doesn't seem like it would be user friendly for the most-likely computer-illiterate people that would use PCMatic.

 

They all smell rogueish. *Puts a clothespin on nose* Yuck

 

Well I know the doublemyspeed or mycleanpc, I can't remember, are owned by the Cyber Defender people, which that is basically a rogue. I think PCMatic by PC PitStop is legitimate, but it just seems so much like a rogue. I'm tempted to install it on a VM and see what "infections" it may find.

 

I've tested on my lap (in Safe Mode by SD) both applications: PC Matic and Exterminate...it seems that both should be still connected to the network and probably work only in cloud.
Just after installation...maybe even during installation - I have not noticed that...try to connect with they servers
PC Matic


Exterminate


PC Matic was freezed without connection and didn't work, but Exterminate even whitout connection showed that it is correctly updated but it was impossible to scan.
It's looks form me somthing strange

 

Well i thought i'd try it for laughs. Talk about busy connections



I did it with the FW lock on so NO outbounds, as i had a feeling it was going to call home It started calling home well before it the install got under way "properly" Look at ALL the Temp file attempts

Anyway eventually it never installed properly, but as i'm SD mode it's no biggy

 

Maybe the program is a part installer that connects to the net and downloads files etc to complete installation?
ellison

 

this is it in action

 

Was that on a clean machine or an infected one?

 

Those malware names (or at least the with with the !BT) are Sunbelt names.

 

PCMatic is just rogue scareware, I hate to see what was once a trusted security site sale junk like this. For the record, pcpitstop.com don't develop their own products, they buy license and/or use free open-source codes from other vendors and then re-brand products in their name.

Thanks.

 

And they even want you to push the iLike button