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PC Tools Free Antivirus Review Results – Don’t bother…

By on November 4, 2008 in Announcements, Anti-Malware Reviews

While PC Tools Internet Security and Spyware Doctor with Antivirus are truly 2 awesome anti-malware applications their free antivirus is not.

It’s now clear to me that the power of PC Tools comes from the fantastic detection and removal technology of Spyware Doctor. I downloaded the latest version of the Free antivirus from pctools.com and put it to task on my latest infected pc.

PC Tools Free Antivirus detected and removed over 40 viruses, but left everything else behind and was continuously corrupted (see screen shot below). In my test I had to re-install PC Tools Free Antivirus 2 times…on the 3rd time I halted the review.

(the image below was taken after a full scan, removal and reboot.)

If you’re looking for some good free antivirus then choose Avira AntiVir.

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  • Daniel

    Bahahahahahahaha. FAIL

  • Adel

    Who cares if it sucked! Atleast we have a new video.. something new to see :)
    We’re waitin for the rest of the list :)

  • 927

    thanks for the info, matt!
    i assumed it would be rather poor but not useless!

  • Adel

    ummmm i dont see a vid :(

  • malwarekilla

    @ Adel – it was so bad I didn’t make a video. i’m busy with Comodo Internet Security…you’ll enjoy that one!

    @ 927 – sure, no problem. Yeah, it was useless.

  • Jimmy Jamez

    The antivirus on all PC Tools products is very weak, only the antispyware is half good…

  • f

    Does it protect well, is the prevention good?
    i know you dont test that, but i think you should

    waiting for that comodo review

    thanks

  • Emperor Darius

    Finally you opened your eyes LOL! Will you change your av now :P
    Don’t in the end SAS and MBAM have a similar detection with Spyware Doctor, if used along with a strong av? (ex. Avira+SAS or MBAM)

  • f

    @ emperor

    I dont use pc tols free

  • Emperor Darius

    @f I was talking to mrizos :P

  • f

    @ emperor
    oh sorry

  • mrB

    Well I disagree I was curious due to my paid version of mcafee running out. So i downloaded and tested first avast free and pc tools free. They both performed well and removed all the same virus’s. Avast seemed to be a bit more of a resourse hog so I chose pc tools. As for the errors and having to reinstall it I never had a problem with pc tools at all it did its job fine. I also like pc tools due to the virus definitions are not as huge and download alot quicker and the interface is less of a pain than avast and it runs quicker. Its probably not the best but not all are 100% but if you want simplicity and hate spending money for something you shouldn’t I choose Pc tools

  • http://youtube.com/user/bestsvms f

    @mrB
    try avira free

    you havnt met some real malware yet

  • mrB

    Malwarebytes spybot and adaware are for that mean ol malware you say I have not met. However if things get to bad for me I got my trusty windows disk and all my files saved on my second hard drive. So I hardley miss a beat

  • http://twitter.com/airpoint Airpoint

    any update on that?
    as this is one of few free for commercial use antiviruses

    just installed it – looks good – but I need a word from experienced user

    cheers

  • http://remove-malware.com Skyler

    I Tested Pc Tools Free Anti-Virus.It Gives Alot Of False Positives,And Sucks At Detecting Malware.

  • GL

    Had PcTools AV 5 for a long time. Windows 2000 SP4 updated, known-good working machine. Decided to download PcTools AV 6.1. Uninstalled Ver 5. Installed 6.1. Doesn’t work. ERROR, ERROR, ERROR. Followed ALL of their “online troubleshooting” uninstall, reboot, redownload, reinstall, reboot etc. etc. I have spent 4 hours on this. They need to learn how to test software. Nothing wrong with my machine. Everything else works. I know what I’m doing. Do they? Avoid. Will use something else.

  • f

    GL

    Its probably because you are using windows 2000.Thats goingt to be 4 os’s old(2000,xp,vista,win7)
    They may not want to build support for something few people use anymore

  • http://- richardl

    I enjoy reading forums and the info they contain.
    For my 10 cents worth Comodo Malwarebytes and microsoft security essentials are best – the latter detected 2 x Trojans in D drive music that none of the others did. i used pctools avira spybot essent bit defender etcetc and they never really seemed to clean like they advertised. The above i feel are good value for Free programmes.


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