PC-cillin 2003

Proactive virus-outbreak notification provides you with early warning and the latest pattern update during a virus outbreak. Personal firewall defense against hackers offers adjustable security levels, a trusted-site list, and port blocking. Integrated PDA protection protects PDAs from attacks specifically targeting mobile platforms. Secured wireless Internet access offers Wi-Fi protection to secure your computer when connecting to a wireless access point at a hotel or an Internet cafe wireless LAN network.

This is a low memory consuming program allowing your optimum performance!!!!

PC-Cillin is the Best choice for the novice and experienced user. Your getting a superior product with daily updates and excellent customer service. If you have NAV or McAffee, you need to delete it now and get another virus software vendor. PC=Cillin is an excellent choice. PC-Cillin is proving to be NAV and McAfee's up and coming rival. That happens when you stop caring about customers, and your rivals start.

You can't go wrong with this product.!!

Beware of the horror review of NAV and Mcafee all over the net. NAV is a resource hog and they have less than adequate customer service (its almost not customer service, just make sure the customer has paid and we're happy and could care less service).
McAfee has bad service and is expensive as hell. After buying for 49.00 or downloading for the same price, you get charged another 39.00 for subcription service. Boo. But they do need money to advertise to fool more people into wasting their money on their product. PC-Cillin is my new choice, and I recommend it to anyone who want to safeguard their credit cards, and any information you have or have ever typed in your computor. Its all there... PC-Cillin protects you from it.

Oh yeah, PC-Cillin comes with a firewall. It blocks hackers from even knowing you're on the net. NAV offers one... for another 49.00. McAfee does too, for another 49.00. PC-Cillian's is included !!!

You cant go wrong with this program.

BB
FT.Collins CO


Bloat-Free, Top Perfomance   January 5, 2003
46 out of 46 found this review helpful

I knew choosing between Norton 2003 and PC-Cillin 2003 was always going to be difficult. I decided to download the demo versions of both for a week just to see how they will fair. In the end it was clear that PC-Cillin was the right antivirus for me. It had the edge over Norton on 3 issues.

1. PC-Cillin uses far little CPU compared to Norton.

2. Norton flunked the Eicar virus file test ... when it came to downloading an infected zip file. This is because of Norton's inability to detect viruses in an archived file. Only after downloading and manually scanning did it detect the virus test file. PC-Cillin, no problems, it detected the virus in the archive at download time.

3. I was unable to download Norton's antivirus definitions through their LiveWire service. I had to manually download and install the updates. With PC-Cillin, the automated update worked flawlessly. It detected that the server hosted newer components and requested to proceed with the update.

With these key issues in mind, I opted for PC-Cillin 2003 and I'm yet to be disappointed.


Upgrading from PC-cillin 2002   December 30, 2002
32 out of 33 found this review helpful

My Sony computer came with Pc-cilin 2002 last year and I thought it was some kind of cheapie antivirus program bundled with the computer. Having been a Norton AV user for years I figured I'd probably have to delete it and get Norton for full protection. As I used the computer over a period of time I really began to like this anti virus software. There is no way I will ever go back to Norton, which my main complaints with are that it was often the cause of system crashes and updating the virus definitions was a pain. PC-cillin has the best automatic updating of virus definitions going. Periodically, maybe once a week or so, when you turn on your computer you get a message from PC-cillin that it can download the latest virus definitions for you - click yes and you're up-to-date! It has also caught several viruses through the year so I know it works! This program is easy to use, automatically updates and won't crash your system!


Fast, accurate and almost daily auto updates   April 2, 2003
Mr Elnadi (UK)
28 out of 28 found this review helpful

I've been using PC-Cillin for 3 years, the best thing about this product is that it is almost invisible to your machine, doesn't slow down your machine or clutter your memory like Norton or McAfee, and is much faster in scanning. In several cases it caught new viruses in the same day of their release, while the same files where passed by Norton and McAfee! They update the software many times a month sometimes more than once a day, excellent support response time too. Only one problem in this particular version Pc-cillin 2003 firewall is that you can't use it if you have two machines sharing the same ISDN connection with the software on the gateway, as it blocks the ports for the slave PC so it will not see the net behind this firewall. It worked perfectly in the earlier version Pc-cillin 2002 though. Still, the BEST and most accurate virus checker in the market in my opinion. Get it.


A reasonable product - but could be better...   January 3, 2003
C. J. Carter (Hilo, Hawaii United States)
27 out of 32 found this review helpful

I bought PC-cillin 2003 to replace a McAfee product which was worse than useless (it took *forever* to initialise each time my Windows 2000 system was rebooted and locked up many processes while you were waiting for it to decide - after many minutes - to continue.) PC-cillin 2003 doesn't have that problem, at least. It appears to be quite a competent product and has a few features which may or may not be useful to you (my mid-level rating is partly because I will not need some of the included features.) Included among these are a personal firewall (I use the excellent free version of ZoneAlarm instead) and protection for WiFi setups (which I don't yet have) and PDAs (which I do).

Installation was touted as easy but in fact it caused confusion by taking *several minutes* to start the Windows Installer the first time I tried. After uninstalling and deleting the newly created directory (and two from previous trials of the product), it worked normally.

The program requires registration over the web before you can use the Intelligent Update feature - allowing you to download new virus-recognition (pattern) files and updates to the scanning engine. This registration process will also apparently *disable* multiple copies of PC-cillin: if, for example, you try and install it on two different machines using the same serial number. I can't confirm whether or not this is the case. Also, be advised that you should *disable* your existing firewall and browser pop-up killer *before* installing this product or it will fail to contact its remote server for program and pattern file updates and will also have trouble completing the registration process, as browser screens that it pops up will be suppressed. If you do make this mistake, the update screen of the program makes it look as if you still have a step to do to complete the registration when in fact it is already done. Confusing, and a sign of careless programming.

The auto-update feature also appears to have some bugs. On my system it successfully updated the pattern file but did not automatically update the engine to the latest version. Following the instructions on the Trend Micro website that supposedly tells you how to manually update the engine did not work either. Their technical support has not yet responded to my queries about this...

Overall this program is probably OK - I don't know how competently it detects and handles viruses as I haven't had one recently. It is way too expensive at its normal retail price, but the current rebate running (as of January 2003) puts it under ten bucks and therefore it becomes reasonable. However it has some confusing behaviour in some areas and ties you in to future expense with the yearly requirement to fork over more cash to keep the ability to download new pattern files and updates. If you are aware of the above issues and requirements, I can recommend it - but if what I describe above seems like too much hassle, steer clear.