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   Review - PC Tools AntiVirus Free Edition

   6.0.0.19 (Apr 16, 2009)

   I had the same freeze up when upgrading to the new V6. Had to power off the pc, and restart the install. PC TOOLS said to exit the old version of the AV, and to temporarily disable the firewall, and Spyware Dr. too.
   It also wanted to install a trial version of thier Registry Mech., which I declined on one mach and the install froze again, so I accepted.
   After ward, it had to download a large 16mb update and reboot again (3rd time).
   This time it ran ok, and I ran an Intlli-Scan, which found the trojan mentioned in a previous post.
   So far we feel that PC Tools AV is a pretty good product for being free. We have a small business and are trying to keep a pretty tight budget, so some of the other free AVs we don't qualify for (home use only). Along with Threatfire, we feel it gives pretty good protection, as they have worked well. Our pc are used for work oriented web browsing only.
   The firewall gets high rating at MATOUSEC.com too.
   The most recent version of Spyware DR seems to slow the older pc's down quite a bit, so we have reverted back to Windows Defender on those.
   I only give 3 stars due to the install problem, otherwise the prior version I rated at 4 stars.