Good for Price

Pros: The numeber one thing is it is obviously free, which is always nice. It can pick up some items, and updates around every four days with newer definitions. It is good if you cannot afford a better program that requires a payment.

It is an easy to use program and can be navigated by nearly anyone.

Cons: The interface needs a lot of work, it looks more like Windows 95. The program doesn't really catch too many items as other programs and doesn't have a firewall bundled in it.

There is no customer support for it, which is understandable since you are not paying for it.

The test item doesn't work properly. If you select an item, it will scan the exterior shell and will say whatever that is in the exterior shell, not just the item you scanned. Also, testing a "single" item doesn't remove it, they will make you scan fully.

There are some better programs out there, a good free one is Avast, but it isn't the greatest. For being free, it is pretty good but does not include a firewall ethier. I reccommend if you have the money get Norton, it may scan slow, but has very fresh definitions and catches the most things I have used. (Note: It only hogs memory when scanning, which isn't a big deal, but a lot of people seem to think so. Programs like McAfee hog all the time due even when not scanning.)

There are also some techniques that you can practice to nearly virus free, such as don't download anything that is less than the file size should be. This is especially with P2P clients. So many people actually download programs that are 875.8 KB big, which is very ignorant. Right away, you can tell it is no good because of its size. Always look at what you plan to download, and download from trusted sources when avaible.

Posted: 03-Mar-2006 07:31:09 PM

Trial Version is Useless

Pros: The program repairs some things well that others do not find and has a pretty nice interface for its users.

Cons: It doesn't find to much and is not worth the money. Liveupdate is useless and doesn't work (Why did they really need one anyway?). Trial version only gets rid of minor problems which is in a ratio of 1/12 of the problems.

It also disabled my sound card and caused me to reinstall it fully.

Posted: 21-Feb-2006 02:16:01 PM

Average

Pros: For its middle protection, it is an ok product that comes for free and come with somewhat of a blocker, which is nice for a beta product.

The interface is pretty nice and is an easy to use product that is recommended just o bulk up your defence slightly.

Microsoft keeps trying to help out with spyware by creating their programs, which is always nice.

Cons: It suffers from poor definitions and does not have an updater, so it stays with its pretty bad database, even if it is beta.

Its blocker is annoying actually because it wants you to accept firewall changes silently without telling you before the firewall changes actually take effect with my personal firewall. Being as in I am a dedicated player, I like to be online a lot, and for that you have to have firewall accept it. You have to manually go into the Windows Defender then go to Tools -> allowed programs. They should just ask you when the changes are made, not for you to just go into it manually.

Posted: 22-Feb-2006 01:49:10 PM