PC Tools Internet Security 2008

List Price: $49.99 Discount Price: $26.63

Features:

• PC Tools Internet Security Suite 2008 offers powerful Anti-Spyware, Anti-Virus, Firewall and Spam protection in one application
• Detects, removes and blocks all types of Spyware, Adware, Viruses, Trojans, Worms, Keyloggers and other threats
• Frequent updates ensure that you are always protected against the latest known threats
• Protection from hackers, intruders and unauthorized software/network communication
• Spam filtering for protection against unsolicited email

Customer Reviews:

Resource hog. Unimpressed. Uninstalled. [Posted on 2008-02-11]
I am using WinXP SP2, all updates, on a fast, modern laptop. I'm a very experienced PC user.

I installed PC Tools Internet Security on 2/11/08. After trying it once I uninstalled it. Here's why:

PC Tools Internet Security is a resource pig. It takes 250+MB of RAM, over 70% of CPU.

I tried the trial version of the program. Although the program would do a scan and show "security threats" the trial version wouldn't remove them without buying the full version. It is not much of a trial if I cannot determine how PC Tools Internet Security deals with not just sensing a threat but actually eliminating it.

It doesn't play well with Firefox. The first time I tried to open FF after installing Internet Security, my computer went to 100% of CPU. I tried to close Firefox and for 10 minutes the computer was useless while the two programs battled it out. Finally I got control of the computer again, and closed PC Tools Internet Security.

By the way, just closing PC Tools Internet Security takes over 30 seconds.

Since I could not evaluate how well PC Tools eliminates spyware, and since the program takes so much PC resources it is all but unusable, I will buy something else. Don't these guys do usability testing?

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