PC Tools Internet Security

All-in-one PC protection from spyware, viruses, spam and malware, keeping your PC safe.

PC Tools Internet Security is a comprehensive PC security pack that offers anti-virus, anti-spyware, anti-malware services etc. It combines PC Tools award-winning products into one. Now you could get complete protection with this utility.

PC Tools Internet Security Key Features

Easy one-click design

PC Tools Internet Security provides a streamlined user interface that is simple and easy to use. The individual components of PC Tools Internet Security are integrated into the home screen and can be quickly activated and configured with just one-click. This smart design gives you easy access to manage the security settings of your computer.

Anti-malware

Protection against both spyware and viruses.

• Anti-Spyware & Anti-Virus - Provides advanced malware protection that combines the award-winning technology from PC Tools' Spyware Doctor with comprehensive anti-virus protection. The Anti-Spyware feature offers protection for your computer against identity theft, stealthy spyware, aggressive adware, browser hijackers, malicious ActiveX objects, malware Trojans, tracking cookies, keyloggers, dialers, and other malware. While the Anti-Virus feature protects your computer from viruses, worms, Trojan horse threats, and other malicious infections.
• Real-time protection - PC Tools Internet Security provides constant protection against malware through its IntelliGuard feature. IntelliGuard constantly monitors your computer for malicious behavior involving spyware processes, tracking cookies, malicious ActiveX objects, browser hijackers, keyloggers, Trojans and more. IntelliGuard works by blocking all these threats before they can install on your computer and cause any harm.
• On-Demand scanning to clean infected computers - By running an Intelli-Scan, Full Scan or Custom Scan PC Tools Internet Security will inspect your computer for all types of spyware and virus infections. The unique, patent-pending spider scanning technology works intelligently by using a combination of signature and behavioral scanning techniques to quickly and effectively identify spyware threats. The unique Intelli-Scan™ feature is specifically designed to hunt swiftly and kill active running spyware threats. Intelli-Scan completes in as little as 3 minutes1, accredited to the intuitive and patent-pending spider scanning technology.
• Advanced Rootkit detection - PC Tools Internet Security is capable of detecting and removing hidden processes associated with complex threats and rootkits. Using behavioral techniques rootkits and other items that attempt to hide themselves are easily detected and removed.
• Email Guard protects your computer from threats delivered via email - Email Guard provides protection against, and instantly removes, spyware and viruses being sent or received via e-mails. All popular e-mail applications (such as Outlook Express™ & Netscape® Mail and Thunderbird) that use POP, IMAP or SMTP are supported by Email Guard.
• Site Guard protects your computer while browsing – Site Guard provides advanced protection against potential malicious websites and phishing attacks where dangerous site are masquerading as legitimate eCommerce sites.

Anti-Spam

Advanced Detection of unsolicited junk e-mails in your mailbox.

• Supports popular e-mail clients - Anti-Spam is designed to work with a range of popular email clients including all recent versions of Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express and Mozilla Mail (for POP3 & IMAP).
• Adaptive and automated behavioral filtering technology - Using intuitive behavioral (Bayesian) technology to filter spam, Anti-Spam can be trained to automatically identify spam e-mails. The filter technology identifies spam e-mail with increasing precision as it is exposed to a greater number and range of spam e-mails.
• Automated white-list for e-mails or domains - The Automatic Friends List feature can be configured to automatically white-list email or IP addresses from which you receive emails on a frequent basis. White-listed e-mails and IP addresses are those which Anti-Spam marks as safe and will never be marked as spam.
• Customizable settings for fine-tuning spam detection - Anti-Spam includes a number of customizable settings for the advanced user, such as the white and black lists, which can be configured to enhance and fine-tune its ability to identify spam.

  Other customizations include:

  • A local Friends List (white list) and Block List (black list) for both email and IP addresses
  • Real-time Blacklists, allowing the selection of various lists which contain IP addresses that are known sources of spam
  • Blacklisted Countries, providing the ability to black-list countries whose servers send you more spam than legitimate email message

Built-in Firewall

Advanced protection against network intruders

• Smart Application Rules - The Firewall component incorporates a set of smart application rules which allow you to create a behavior-based set of rules that control how applications connect to the Internet and networks.
• Stealth Mode protection - This feature within the Firewall causes your computer to appear invisible to other computers in the network. When in Stealth Mode, your computer is able to make connections to other computers in the network, but Firewall will prevent other computers from connecting with yours.
• Data validation using SPI (stateful packet inspection) - Firewall validates data using stateful packet inspection (SPI) in which it performs a protocol handshake and if successful, allows data transfer. Otherwise all traffic is blocked ensuring no unauthorized data is transferred onto your computer.
• Software Application protection - Firewall offers protection to your software applications by guarding them against unauthorized access. Enabling this option will shield applications on your computer from unauthorized attempts to take control of them and potentially use them for malicious purposes.

Additional Features

• Automatic Smart Updates - Frequent updates to detect and guard against new threats and viruses as well as provide enhancements to Internet Security are automatically accessed through the Smart Update function.
• Scheduler tool to automate regular scanning and updates - The Scheduler within PC Tools Internet Security allows you to schedule scans or Smart Updates at specified times and intervals. These actions can be conducted in the background and also set to begin only when your CPU usage is below a specified level to ensure minimal impact on your computer performance.

What's new of PC Tools Internet Security 2009

• Better protection, better scanner, less impact

  Our focus for Internet Security 2009 mid-cycle update was to provide enhancements in protection, detection and scanning.

  This has been achieved through the introduction of next generation sliding signatures*, specifically designed to better cater for the significant numbers of threat variants in the wild. PC Tools' next-gen sliding signatures have also delivered performance improvements to scan time and system impact with a further reduced memory footprint and overall system impact during scanning1. This means that you can continue using your computer while PC Tools Internet Security scans for threats silently in the background.

  All these updates mean that PC Tools Internet Security has an increased ability to provide you with better protection against the latest threat outbreaks.

  *Sliding signatures are a PC Tools technology with the ability to detect threats known to frequently modify or morph. They are designed to find the common patterns within these types of deceptive morphing threats and promptly alert PC Tools Internet Security.

• Password protection to safeguard from exposure

  Password Protection offers advanced customization to allow you to safeguard against unauthorized parties (users or malware) attempting to change key security settings, exposing your computer and leaving it vulnerable to attack. In particular you now have the ability to password protect changes to the program settings, shutdown and the real-time protection module, IntelliGuard.

  By enabling password protection you have complete control over your installation of PC Tools Internet Security to ensure maximized protection for all users.

• No interruptions in full screen mode

  The Full Screen Detection mode feature is designed for avid gamers and movie/TV viewers to provide an uninterrupted user experience. This feature, when enabled, provides zero-interruptions resulting in minimal impact to your computer when in full screen mode, while maintaining an advanced level of security.

  Enabling Full Screen Detection Mode specifically maintains a stabilized frame rate and gives you control to disable program alerts and other actions. In particular Smart Updates are disabled, scanning is re-scheduled to occur at a later time and the Firewall is set to silent with no alerts.

• Enhanced user experience

  The user experience has been streamlined to reduce the amount of user interaction required with implementation of the following features:

  • Reduced reboots & simplified Smart Update

    The automatic Smart Update feature in PC Tools Internet Security now requires minimal reboots for product updates and upgrades. For those who wish to manually update, this feature is now simplified to a "2-click" process.

  • Quick right-click scanning

    Integration with the Windows File Explorer allows you to save time and alleviates the need for regular full system scanning. You can now easily and quickly scan individual files, folders or drives through right-clicking and selecting 'Scan with Internet Security' from the contextual menu.

  • Reduced firewall alerts

    The Firewall has reduced the number of alerts where you are required to make decisions regarding potential threats. It can automatically make more alert decisions for you - by allowing the good, blocking the bad and monitoring the unknown, taking away the guess work and leaving the decisions to the expert

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Latest version: PC Tools Internet Security 6.0

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