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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Resource hog. Unimpressed. Uninstalled.,
By Brian (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: PC Tools Internet Security 2008 (CD-ROM)
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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PC Tools Internet Security 2008 by Encore Software (Windows, Windows Vista / XP)
$49.99
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