Review by Laura

I installed this on an older computer, Latitude C610 laptop, so if you have a newer, faster computer this may not apply to your situation so maybe go on to other reviews.

The hardware requirement is only 800 MHz processor and 256 MB RAM and the laptop has 512MB but I don’t think it is enough because this program has definitely affected performance. The computer is clean; I formatted the drive and have not installed any software as yet, I wanted to get the security set up first.

Right away I started having problems with freezing/lagging so I configured the settings for just basic firewall and antivirus functions, am not using the available parental control, identity control, e-mail monitoring, or virus reporting, and have reduced the defaulted hourly virus definition updates. It is now much better and hopefully will continue to be when I load software.

I do like the UI and the ability to customize the individual functions, and the extra year of protection for up to three PCs. When my protection expires on my newer computer I will try it on that one.