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Returnil System Safe Free 2011 for Windows

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Key Details of Returnil System Safe Free 2011

  • Protect your PC, remove any virus with click of a button, join the virtualization movement.
  • Last updated on 9/5/2011
  • There have been 6 updates
  • Virus scan status:

    Clean (it's extremely likely that this software program is clean)

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Editors' Review

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Returnil System Safe Free 2011 is a free PC security suite based on a premium software package. It includes the basics, including virus and malware protection and its Virtual Mode feature, a virtualization technology that isolates your PC from threats. In addition to the reduced-function free version, Returnil is also available as a fully functional 30-day trial version. The free version lacks features such as the automatic system rollback feature, remote online management, and free technical support. More significantly, it disables the File Manager that lets users save files and make changes to their main system from inside Returnil's virtual system. That means you can surf the Internet and use your PC safely, but you can't save any work you do in Virtual Mode.

We needed to reboot our system to finish installing Returnil's setup process. The program does most of what it does in the background, but there are several access points, including an optional floating desktop bar and a system-tray icon, which we right-clicked to call up Returnil's menu. The blue-hued user interface bears a generic resemblance to other security applications and system utilities, with large fonts and plenty of opportunities to upgrade to the paid version. After checking for updates, Returnil scanned our system for threats when we clicked the Start Scan button. The scan was thorough but turned up no major issues, we're glad to say (speaking on behalf of our system). We were most interested in the Virtual Mode, though. We activated Returnil's Virtual Mode, which had no obvious adverse effects in our system or its performance, apart from a slightly longer load time. Inside the VM, we browsed to a Web site normally and saved an image to our desktop in the usual way. We exited the VM, which required a reboot and purges all changes made while in a virtualized environment. Sure enough, after rebooting, our saved image file was gone.

The functional security tools Returnil includes with the free version are certainly valuable, and most of the features it omits can be replaced with other freeware, such as antispam utilities. Of course, you don't need Returnil to create Virtual Machines on a Windows PC; its chief advantage is in making virtualization easy to use. The only real sticking point is the disabled File Manager. Without it, Returnil's Virtual Mode works but is of limited utility.

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WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 3.2.10303-REL3
Version 3.2.10303-REL3 adds Russian, Portuguese (Brazil), Polish translations.
GENERAL
Release
September 13, 2010
Latest update
September 5, 2011
Version
3.2.10303-REL3
OPERATING SYSTEMS
Platform
Windows
Operating System
Windows Vista, Windows 2003, Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows 10, Windows Server
Additional Requirements
None
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Developer's Description

By Returnil
Protect your PC, remove any virus with click of a button, join the virtualization movement.
Returnil's unique combination of anti-malware, system restore and virtualization technologies will keep your computers protected. When an infection is found, our system restore feature will automatically find an earlier version of your infected file which is clean, so your data loss is minimized. Returnil virtualization technology clones a computer's System Partition and boots the PC into this system rather than native Windows, allowing you run your applications in a completely isolated and secure environment. All activity is then performed within the virtual environment, ensuring that the operating system itself cannot be compromised by viruses, other malicious software, bad installations or user error.