PC-Cillin

[Guest]

Anyone else using the software it recommended in the Security Alert (since
Norton is FUBAR). It's called PC-Cillin. I'm very much liking it. Easy to
set up the antivirus, spyware, and firewall settings. Looks like it's going
to be a quality product and not near the processing hog that Norton was.

 

[Larry]

I'm having a problem with it. First of all it was never able to complete an
update and kept giving me error messages. It didn't migrate over when I
installed RC1 over Beta 2 and it won't let me uninstall it. A real joy.

 

[Guest]

Beware of PC-Cillin. When I originally loaded the beta on my Vista PC, it let
a nasty "Grabber" slip through, and really mucked up my system. I am using
AVAST! now and it seems to work much better. Not to mention, AVAST! is free
for a year, vice only having a 30 day trial period.

Just a thought.

 

[Telstar]

Beware of PC-Cillin.

I have to say in favour of Trend Micro that on my system (5600) PC
cillin worked and is working flawlessly. I had to uninstall to
reinstall in a different drive and also that went smoothly too.

I dont particularly like the interface, though.

 

[John Barnett MVP]

I've used PC-Cillin on all builds of Vista and haven't had any problems.

--
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[Guest]

I had 2 problems with Trend Micro's PC-cillin. Their update server had
problems (now fixed) but worse was the cpu hogging at startup - I couldn't
even open Task manager for 2 minutes. I prefer AVG but Avast is good too.
Colin

 

[ScottyDog55]

I used pc-cillin and experienced a few problems, enough to uninstall when
the vista compatable avast became available. It stopped the Spamta worm
after vista UAC and IE protected mode stopped it first, listing the .js
loader names and stopping their ability to load. Then I got the messege
that spyware has been detected and blocked by avast. So, 2 layrs of
protection with Vista security worrking well
SDog

 

[Peter]

It fails to update with RC2...have tried all their fixes too. Error 28.

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Peter
Toronto, Canada
XP Pro SP2 x 2 + Vista RC2 5744
P4 HT @ 3.0ghz, 700gb HDD, 2.0gb DDR
Creative SB Audigy 4 Sound, ATI Radeon 9550 Graphics
TS H429A + H552U CD/DVD Combi-Drives
Sony DRU820A x 2 DVD-RAM Combi-Drives

 

[John Barnett MVP]

My biggest start up problem was the dial up network. While the machine boots
to the desktop ok i have always had a 1 or 2 minute wait before i could
actually do anything. This was while the dial up networking icon was loading
in the notification area. I've taken PC Cillin off and installed Avast but,
while the time needed to load the DUN has slightly decreased it still takes
around 1 minute to load.

I haven't install RC2 yet so i'm hoping that this will cure the problem. I'm
not holding out much hope, but i'll have to wait and see!!

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[Guest]

I'm having the same problem, Peter.
http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/2057/capture07102006195303ot8.png

 

[Peter]

Switched to Avast A/V and now rely on Windows Firewall.

--
Peter
Toronto, Canada
XP Pro SP2 x 2 + Vista RC2 5744
P4 HT @ 3.0ghz, 700gb HDD, 2.0gb DDR
Creative SB Audigy 4 Sound, ATI Radeon 9550 Graphics
TS H429A + H552U CD/DVD Combi-Drives
Sony DRU820A x 2 DVD-RAM Combi-Drives

 

[Jeff]

Peter,
Good man.
I've been saying that all along.
Avast works great;
and the firewall in vista does too.

Jeff

 

[Guest]

Progress, but not updated yet:

http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/9071/capture08102006132138ug5.png

http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/7484/capture08102006132408na5.png

 

[Peter]

An entire weekend is rather long for them to fix a server issue don't you
think? I'll gladly return to Trend if they fix it finally.
--
Peter
Toronto, Canada
XP Pro SP2 x 2 + Vista RC2 5744
P4 HT @ 3.0ghz, 700gb HDD, 2.0gb DDR
Creative SB Audigy 4 Sound, ATI Radeon 9550 Graphics
TS H429A + H552U CD/DVD Combi-Drives
Sony DRU820A x 2 DVD-RAM Combi-Drives

 

[Guest]

Progress, but still not updated. I'm sticking with PC-cillin antivirus.
Their support has been very good. I don't need their firewall, but it would
be excellent on a laptop because of the way it identifies and classifies
connections. I haven't tested this firewall at www.grc.com because I don't
want to reconfigure my router.

http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/9071/capture08102006132138ug5.png

http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/7484/capture08102006132408na5.png

 

[Guest]

Updated! Server is heavily loaded (slow).

http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/2284/capture08102006141227tt8.png

 

[Peter]

Reinstalled and updated.

--
Peter
Toronto, Canada
XP Pro SP2 x 2 + Vista RC2 5744
P4 HT @ 3.0ghz, 700gb HDD, 2.0gb DDR
Creative SB Audigy 4 Sound, ATI Radeon 9550 Graphics
TS H429A + H552U CD/DVD Combi-Drives
Sony DRU820A x 2 DVD-RAM Combi-Drives