PCLive: free security suite for Windows

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PCLive: free security suite for Windows

by Brad Linder Oct 15th 2007

PCLive Security is a full featured security suite for Windows. It helps protect you from viruses, spyware, rootkits, keyloggers, and adware. Oh yeah, and it happens to be free. While there are several other free security applications out there, none come with quite so many features in one package.

PCLive Security includes the ClamAV antivirus engine, a bi-directional firewall, and a pop-up and adware blocker.

There's also a paid version that includes technical support, hard drive maintenance, and file optimization features for $4.95 per month.

PCLive Security runs on Windows 2000/XP/Vista machines. On the downside, the installation process takes forever, and once PCLive Security is up and running it seems to be a bit of a resource hog. Oh yeah, and it will try to uninstall any other anti-virus software on your PC when you run the installer.

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Tags: adware, anti-virus, antivirus, avast, avg-free, clamav, firewall, pclive, spyware

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Joel Verhagen said 9:53PM on 10-15-2007

Why hassle with it? I use Comodo firewall, AVG anti-virus, and Firefox (for popup blocker). I've never had a problem.

Andrew said 10:32PM on 10-15-2007

Haha!
I just use FF
and avast! On-Acess Scanner...
Works GREAT and my computer is not slowed down at all...

Orro said 8:08AM on 10-16-2007

I bet PClive, free or not, will not work with non verified windows. So if you have a pirated copy of windows like "cough" some people i know, forget PClive.

Orro
http://www.dragonlasers.com

JP said 8:08AM on 10-16-2007

It's a real shame this is such a resource hog. Clam AV is a great, very very light weight AV scanner. It just lacks on demand scanning and updating which this seems to provide. And Clam AV's detection record is top of its class.

rodell_pclive said 2:34PM on 10-16-2007

JP, I'm the CEO of SecurityCoverage (owners of PCLive.com) and wanted thank you for your feedback. The PCLive team is dedicated to providing a great service and we are, and will continue, working very hard to minimize the resource impact our product has.

We also realize that many people are happy with there current provider and software and would completely concur that if your happy, stick with it. Our goal is to provide an alternative with those that don't have anything or are unhappy with there current software so we can help the average pc user enjoy the computer and not have to become technology experts.

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