Review by HealthIT

I used to love PC Cillin, until they became incompatable with Zone Alarm two years back, and I was forced to choose between Zone Alarm’s firewall, and PC-Cillin’s. PC-Cillin had everything going for it, except its firewall… Zone Alarm won. Now, two years later, they have ‘fixed’ the problem. You must uninstall zone-alarm, install PC-Cillin, re-insatll Zone alarm… all this because PC-Cillins’ firewall is HORRIBLE… it will let programs (i.e. trojans) on your pc access the internet. Basically, you have no control over what programs get internet access and which ones do not.

So, with two years to fix their zone alarm bug, it seems that they’ve forgotten to do anything else. PC-Cillin Internet Security Suite 2005 is little more than the 2003 version with a new name, and has a poorer antivirus program.

I’ve found that it is frequently ‘unable’ to delete viruses or even quaranteine them. I must manually go to the folder where the virus may be located to delete them BOO… I might go back to the Zone Alarm Security Suite which included antivirus. So… If you don’t mind manually deleting viruses (you need to be fairly experienced on your PC to open the temporary .ie5 files), then get this. If not, and you’d rather your antivirus actually do its job, go with another product.