Clean, easy-to-navigate interface Before installation, PC-cillin's setup program quickly checks your system for viruses. Once it's installed, you'll find a single icon in the system tray, which you double-click to launch the PC-cillin main console.
This single, clean interface provides access to all of the software's functions and settings. It's much easier to navigate than many antivirus programs we've tested, including Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal Pro 4. PC-cillin also makes it simple to schedule scans of specific folders or hard drives, something not every antivirus product does. Mixed results on virus protection We were impressed by the breadth of PC-cillin's virus protection. It scans for viruses within compressed file archives, and its WebTrap feature keeps harmful ActiveX and JavaScript code from executing on Web pages.
However, we found PC-cillin's antivirus protection rather shallow. While the program found most viruses in our battery of CNET Labs tests , it failed to catch a copy of the I Love You virus when we modified its file size. This suggests that PC-cillin cannot adequately detect new strains of existing viruses before the software's virus definitions have been updated.
To test PC-cillin's virus-cleaning capabilities, we infected a system with the Gibe worm and enabled the antivirus protection. Although the real-time antivirus scanning recognized the worm running in main memory, it failed to stop it or to delete the files. We then ran a complete scan of the hard drive, which removed some of the virus's support files but left the two main virus programs intact with a notification that they could not be removed. We were forced to use Explorer to go to the Windows directory, find the virus executables, and manually delete them in order stop the virus.
Firewall, too In addition to the virus protection, PC-cillin's software-based firewall protects against Internet intruders. Its Site Filter function further restricts access to certain Web pages, although we're not sure how this feature would be useful, since the user must manually specify the offending Web pages. In general, firewalls bundled with antivirus products tend not to be as robust as standalone firewalls such as ZoneAlarm Pro 3. Log in or Sign up. Wilders Security Forums. Anyone here tested Pc Cillin ?
Joined: Feb 27, Posts: Is it any good? Does it have a new detection engine, and new ways of getting rid of virii? Is the firewall included in it any good? How does this program compare to NOD32, as I am gonna buy a virus scanner today. As far I know there is no independent test available for PC-Cillin yet. So I can not say anything about improved virus detection. You can turn the firewall off, if you choose. You have to uncheck the option in the program and change the service to manual or disabled.
It offers no pop-ups requiring you allow or block programs from accessing the net. Any program that wants to access the net can do so, just like the WinXP firewall. The Anti-Virus is pretty much the same as PC-cillin I have no use for the Wireless Anti-Virus portion either. My opinion of PC-cillin is that it is a good Anti-Virus program with a useless Firewall and Anti-Trojan making the program bloated.
I have uninstalled it from my system and reinstalled NAV FarCry , Mar 22, Joined: Feb 13, Posts: JD , Mar 23, NOD32 looks a little too cheap.
The interface looks to cheap, and it doesn't look as though the virus scan is trustworthy. What do you think? Paul Wilders , Mar 24, Hi JD, I could not agree with you about the support of Kaspersky. It is first class. Never had any problems with it. Always fast and competent answers. As far I know Kaspersky does not offer any discount for a new licence. I use Kapsersky pro 3. Although it is very good especially in detecting trojans, when i right click to a file in windows explorer it takes much time to appear the properties of the file.
When disabling kaspersky monitor everything works ok. I don't know if this happens with version 4.
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