PC Tools Internet Security 2009 - new features

PC Tools Internet Security 2009 combines the award-winning security technologies from PC Tools, including Spyware Doctor AntiSpyware, AntiVirus, Firewall Plus and Spam protection, to provide complete integrated protection for your PC.

New features of PC Tools Internet Security 2009:

• Latest protection from unknown threats - PC Tools Internet Security 2009 now has Behavior Guard, providing you with the latest pro-active behavioral-based technology against zero-day (never seen before) threats. Built on the award-winning ThreatFire technology, Behavior Guard has been seamlessly incorporated into PC Tools Internet Security to offer you leading protection. This new technology protects you when some anti-virus products give up! Read more about behavior-based protection.

• Improved detection capabilities - PC Tools Internet Security 2009 has been enhanced to improve detection effectiveness. In particular, each individual signature created in the threat database is optimized so that it is capable of detecting multiple variations of malware threats (threat variants) while maintaining minimal system resource usage (memory footprint).

• Internet browsing protection - Browser Defender™ toolbar - Your Microsoft Internet Explorer can take advantage of this optional feature in PC Tools Internet Security 2009 called Browser Defender. If offers website safety alerts to provide peace of mind as you surf the Internet.

  • Checks downloads for viruses, adware, spyware or other possibly unwanted programs

  • Allows you to surf safely by displaying website ratings as you browse the Internet

  • Integrates with the search results provided by popular search engines such as Google and Yahoo! so you can see if it is safe to continue even before you visit a website

  • Alerts you about websites with annoyances such as excessive pop-ups, phishing or browser exploits

  • Checks downloads for viruses, adware, spyware or other possibly unwanted programs

• Swift clean-up for heavily infected computers - PC Tools Internet Security 2009 is able to detect and remove threats on heavily infected computers faster and easier than ever before. Sometimes your computer is so highly infected that you may find yourself unable to install or run security software except when in the ’safe mode’ of Windows. In these cases, malware consumes computer resources so resulting in lengthy scanning and removal times. PC Tools Internet Security is now armed with the technology to scan in safe mode faster and more effectively by forcing your computer to take a higher priority over the scan than the malware and other software attempting to run on your system.

• Improved Hacker Defense (Windows Vista only) - Further improvements have been included to enhance our own defense against malware threats attempting to interfere with the effectiveness of PC Tools Internet Security 2009. Our hacker defense system means you can rest assured that your computer system has the most comprehensive protection while ensuring that malware threats don’t impede on the functionality or effectiveness of PC Tools Internet Security 2009. The new hacker defense utilizes a particular feature available in Windows Vista (known as ASLR) to make it difficult for hackers to exploit or gain control over PC Tools Internet Security 2009.

• Enhanced spam detection - The anti-spam component of PC Tools Internet Security has been optimized to quickly process incoming and outgoing emails and has improved learning capabilities to distinguish spam email from legitimate email. PC Tools Internet Security 2009 not only supports Microsoft Outlook, but now supports Mozilla Thunderbird, Eudora, and any other email client that uses either the POP3 or IMAP email standards.

• Firewall Enhancements - The firewall component of PC Tools Internet Security 2009 has been upgraded to offer your computer better protection. It provides a defense against malware attempting to bypass the firewall and transmitting unauthorized data, such as your personal information, to an unauthorized third party, (hackers!).

• Other enhancements

  • Support for Windows Security Centre in Windows Vista Service Pack

  • The real-time protection module is now referred to as Intelli Guard

  • Enhanced error reporting to assist with diagnosis of program crashes.

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