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PC-cillin Internet Security 2006 - 3-Pack (Full Product)

Last updated
May 20, 2006
Test Center Reviewed by
Narasu Rebbapragada
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Street price when reviewed - Very Inexpensive: $50
Cost of renewal when reviewed - $25
Performance - Good WildList viruses - 100%
AV-Test threats: back doors - 71%
AV-Test threats: bots/zombies - 80%
AV-Test threats: Trojan horses - 59%
Heuristic detection with three-month-old signatures - 67%
Detection of malware within file archives - 96%
Detection of malware within runtime-compressed program files - 28%
Adware detection - 60%
Successful cleanup of malware files, Registry entries, and Hosts-file changes - 58%
Rate of false positives - 0.00%
Detection of malware embedded in Microsoft Office OLE objects - 100%
Detection of malware in password-protected Microsoft Office OLE objects - 100%
Firewall tests: protection from inside attacks - 80%
Firewall tests: protection from outside attacks - 50%
Scan speed (minutes) - 7.62
Percentage slowdown of WorldBench 5 application tests - ACD Systems ACDSee PowerPack 5.0.0.0025 - 6%
Adobe Premiere 6.5 - 0%
Ahead Software Nero Express 6.0.0.3 - 7%
Microsoft Office 2002 SP-2 - 5%
Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 9.0.0.2980 - 4%
Mozilla 1.4.0.2003062408 - 12%
Musicmatch Jukebox 7.10.1057 - 0%
Roxio VideoWave Movie Creator 1.5.545.0 - 1%
WinZip Computing WinZip 8.1 SR-1 (5266) - 13%
Ease-of-use score - Very Good
Support policies - Daily support hours - 12
Free phone support - Yes
Cost of phone support - None
Saturday support hours - None
Sunday support hours - None
Toll-free support - Yes
E-mail support - Yes
Live chat - No

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