Avanquest Security Suite
Avanquest is a very well founded company specializing in personal computer security. Their flagship product and subject of this article is System Suite 9, which offers an all in one solution to the personal computer maintenance nightmare. It does this by detecting and removing viruses, spyware, and malware. It builds on that by running periodic tests to make sure the underlying operating system (Windows) is still operating at its best. And finally, it eliminates computer crashes, freezes and slow downs. How does it do all this you ask? Well, I downloaded the free trial version which is somewhat limited in functionality so I’ll answer that in the following.
Avanquest System Suite 9 installed from its 112Mb file and I was quite surprised at what I saw. The user interface is surprisingly welcoming (and well better be for the $60 price tag for the full version); I will take a moment to walk you through the interface.
On the left are your usual functions (virus scans, spyware and malware scans, update functions, reports, and firewall). What is so different about Avanquest System Suite 9 is that they have these neat added functions, things like “Diagnose”, “Fix and Maintain”, “Optimize”, “CleanUp”, “Recovery”, and “Zip”. Each of these has a unique function. The Diagnose function will scan your computer for all abnormalities and then the “Fix” function will attempt to repair those abnormalities. Now, before you do any of this, it is very highly recommended that you make at least one full backup of your computer in a good working order in case something major does happen, then you can use the “recovery” option to restore your computer to a good working state. So, unfortunately, this product offers nothing in the way of free virus removal, free spyware removal, or free anything to boot, but it does offer some peace of mind if you have the money to spend. Additionally, the program will tell you when you need to pay attention to something by way of a nice status bar which indicates your computer’s health and another status bar indicates your computer’s protection level. As a rule of thumb, greener is better, so you’ll need this program running nearly all the time.
When I ran it on my test computer, I honestly have to say it was slow. I know this is a review article and I am trying to be unbiased, my computer is a Core2 @ 1.66 GHz with 3 GB of ram, nothing is slow on my computer, but this was. For that, I have to say do not get this software if you have a very slow processor or hard drive, it will take forever to do common tasks like scan and index everything.
So to wrap this review up, if you’re looking for free antivirus, free spyware search and removal, or free spam removal, look elsewhere but if you are interested in a software that costs a little but will maximize your computers performance this makes a nice choice!
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