PcTools
PC Tools Internet Security includes Spyware Doctor with AntiVirus, the most awarded antispyware protection worldwide. Spyware Doctor with AntiVirus has been downloaded over 160 million times, with a million more downloads each week. Spyware Doctor with AntiVirus will protect your PC from spyware, adware, Trojans, keylogers, phishing attacks and other malicious online threats using proactive, reactive and automated protection to stop threats at every entry point. The advanced protection of Spyware Doctor with AntiVirus, when combined with spam protection and advanced firewall, will securely connect you to your online world.
Installation
Our installation of PC Tools Internet Security 2010 was generally a pain-free experience. The program installed quickly, but did require a system reboot. Most but not all competitors require a reboot for the program to function properly. When Windows is done rebooting, the program will automatically launch and run a quick scan, which took less than 2 minutes. Even on clean machines, it’s likely that the program will pick up tracking cookies and other low-level threats. Uninstalling left behind desktop icons and Registry keys, and the Windows firewall had to be manually reactivated–not the most polite of uninstallation procedures.
Our installation of PC Tools Internet Security 2010 was generally a pain-free experience. The program installed quickly, but did require a system reboot. Most but not all competitors require a reboot for the program to function properly. When Windows is done rebooting, the program will automatically launch and run a quick scan, which took less than 2 minutes. Even on clean machines, it’s likely that the program will pick up tracking cookies and other low-level threats. Uninstalling left behind desktop icons and Registry keys, and the Windows firewall had to be manually reactivated–not the most polite of uninstallation procedures.
Interface and features
The interface design is generally easy to use, but could be much better when it comes to accessing advanced settings. Five buttons anchor the left nav: Status, Start Scan, IntelliGuard, Tools, and Settings. Each one brings up a different pane of security information, but they’re all unified by an easy-to-read font choice and clean design. It’s too bad this design aesthetic didn’t carry through to the more advanced areas, which are much harder to read thanks to an unnecessarily small font.
The interface design is generally easy to use, but could be much better when it comes to accessing advanced settings. Five buttons anchor the left nav: Status, Start Scan, IntelliGuard, Tools, and Settings. Each one brings up a different pane of security information, but they’re all unified by an easy-to-read font choice and clean design. It’s too bad this design aesthetic didn’t carry through to the more advanced areas, which are much harder to read thanks to an unnecessarily small font.
The default landing page in PC Tools Internet Security 2010, the Status tab, is easy to read.
Through four large buttons the Status tab gives a broad overview of your security status. The Anti-Spyware, Anti-Virus, Anti-Spam, and Firewall buttons in the central pane are given light color-coding in either red or green, which makes it easy to see what’s going on at a glance. Clicking on one of the buttons refocuses this summary to be button specific. The supplementary information needs to be larger, because these links are the only obvious connection between the overview and the fine-tuning controls. You can get to them via the Settings tab, but it’s not clear where the ThreatFire settings are, for example. The ThreatFire exclusion list, it turns out, is the global exclusion list, but that’s not immediately apparent and impairs your ability to adjust settings.
Through four large buttons the Status tab gives a broad overview of your security status. The Anti-Spyware, Anti-Virus, Anti-Spam, and Firewall buttons in the central pane are given light color-coding in either red or green, which makes it easy to see what’s going on at a glance. Clicking on one of the buttons refocuses this summary to be button specific. The supplementary information needs to be larger, because these links are the only obvious connection between the overview and the fine-tuning controls. You can get to them via the Settings tab, but it’s not clear where the ThreatFire settings are, for example. The ThreatFire exclusion list, it turns out, is the global exclusion list, but that’s not immediately apparent and impairs your ability to adjust settings.
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