Product Description

System Suite 8 Professional is the Ultimate All-in-One Suite for PC Security Anti-Virus Anti-Spyware Maintenance and Privacy. System Suite's easy-to-use interface detects and removes viruses and spyware tunes up your hard drive fix Windows startup and registry problems recover lost data and diagnoses your hardware and much more. Get powerful protection and performance enhancement with System Suite's integrated suite of 60 powerful tools designed to maintain and protect your PC and keep it running just like the day you bought it. Defend against viruses spyware and hackers diagnose Windows problems recover lost data protect against spam and more. Data Recovery Tools restore your non-booting PC and recover deleted files and data. Launch Programs and Files Faster with DiskCleaner and DiskFixer to help you regain wasted disk space and repair problems on the drive's surface. JETDefrag the high performance disk defragmenter gives you a powerful and timesaving tool that reorganizes your hard drive. NetDefense Firewall is the ultimate defense against hackers and spammers. WebDefense identifies and blocks malicious websites preventing Phishing and fraud scams. File Shredder protects you from identity theft by securely erasing sensitive data. Firewall & Anti-Spam Secure File Shredder Disaster Recovery Tools Spyware Remover NetDefense Firewall Anti-Spam Control PC Maintenance Recovery Commander Internet Cleanup Windows Startup Manager Fraud & Phishing Scam Prevention Active Intelligence Monitor Enhanced Recover Commander Supports Windows NTFS FAT & FAT32 Disk Repair System Requirements - Windows 2000 XP or Vista Internet Explorer 5.01 or later 64MB RAM and 40MB free space Format: WIN 2000XPVISTA Genre: UTILITIES UPC: 018059014718 Manufacturer No: 1471

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5012 in Software
• Brand: Avanquest
• Model: 1471
• Released on: 2007-09-01
• Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows 2000, Windows XP
• Format: CD-ROM
• Dimensions: .80 pounds

Features

• Virus & Spyware Protection; Firewall & Anti-Spam
• Windows Repair Tools; Diagnostics & Repair; System Optimizer
• 60+ Powerful Tools Included!
• Secure File Shredder; Disaster Recovery Tools
• 3-User License--For up to 3 PCs

Amazon.com
The Ultimate, All-In-One Suite for PC Security, Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware, Maintenance & Privacy! Get powerful protection and performance enhancement with System Suite's integrated suite of 60 powerful tools designed to maintain and protect your PC, and keep it running just like the day you bought it.

Maintain and protect your PC, and keep it running just like the day you bought it.

Get powerful protection and performance enhancement with System Suite’s integrated suite of 60 powerful tools designed to maintain and protect your PC.

System Suite automatically monitors and checks the health and security status of your PC.

Defend against viruses, spyware and hackers, diagnose Windows problems, recover lost data, protect against spam, and much, much more!

PC Security, Repair, Optimization & Performance

More than 60+ Powerful, Integrated Tools!
System Suite's easy-to-use interface detects and removes viruses and spyware, tunes up your hard drive, fixes Windows startup and registry problems, recovers lost data and diagnoses your hardware and much more--all from inside one window.

Integrated Anti-Virus & Anti-Spyware Protection

Virus Scanner Pro
World-class antivirus protection scans email and files automatically in real-time--or on demand. Get updates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week ensuring you are always protected from the latest threats.

Spyware Remover
Dangerous spyware can infect your system in many ways. Prevent spyware from harming your computer with real-time protection. Scan automatically or on demand and remove existing spyware and malware.

NetDefense Firewall
Defend your PC from hackers and malicious intruders. NetDefense is an advanced firewall that proactively monitors and defends your PC with multi-layered security protection.

Anti-Spam Control
Stop spam, viruses and phishing emails so they never get to your inbox. Works with all major email programs including Outlook, Notes, Eudora, AOL, Hotmail/MSN and more

Identify and filter thousands of applications for constant protection against threats.

To identify and block malicious web sites before you click.

Help prevent your data from falling into the wrong hands by securely erasing data from your hard drive.

PC Diagnostics
Improve system performance, diagnose and fix Windows registry problems, and detect hard drive problems early. Includes more than 95 PC hardware diagnostic tests.

PC Maintenance
One-click wizards fix and optimize your system automatically. Choose one of the repair, cleaning or optimization wizards to fit your needs, or perform a comprehensive system tune-up automatically.

Recover Commander
Is Windows not booting up? System Suite's built-in Recovery Commander feature restores your non-booting system back to normal. Fully integrated, Recovery includes the ability to save and restore Windows XP and Vista checkpoints. Advanced features include the ability to see a selected checkpoint's differences from the current system, and it allows users to select specific items to restore. Restore checkpoints from within Windows or from the bootable rescue Disk.

Internet Cleanup
System Suite helps prevent identity theft by wiping away your Internet tracks to improve performance and protect your privacy.

Windows Startup Manager
Identifies programs and lets you monitor and remove startup programs that slow down and possibly harm your system! Startup Commander lets you view and control which programs start within Windows.

What's New

Fraud & Phishing Scam Prevention
System Suite's Web Defense technology integrates with major search engines to identify and block malicious web sites before you click, protecting you from hacked pages, phishing and fraud scams.

• Expands your threat protection
• Prevents attacks as you search and browse
• Checks search results and gives advance warning of dangerous sites before you visit them

Secure File Shredder
Help prevent your data from falling into the wrong hands by securely erasing data from your hard drive. You'll be protected from Identity Theft as File Shredder meets U.S. Department of Defense Security cleaning standards, ensuring that erased data is completely unrecoverable.

System Optimizer
System Suite optimizes your certain PC tasks--like Gaming, Multimedia, Office tasks and Security. One-click control optimizes your PC for your specific needs.

Active Intelligence Monitor
System Suite automatically monitors and checks the health and security status of your PC, ensuring you are always protected without you having to lift a finger.

Improved--NetDefense Firewall

• Identify and filter thousands of applications for constant protection against threats.
• One-click protection automatically identifies and configures your PC security settings when logged on home, work, or public networks for optimal protection.

Recover Commander--Enhanced!
Offload files to an external USB Drive (and thumb drive), making recovery easier and more convenient than ever.

Hardware Diagnostics
Memory, Video, Hard Drive, Sound Card, System Board, Modem, Serial Port, Keyboard, Mouse, Zip Drive, USB Port, Monitor, Parallel Port, Diskette Drive, CPU, DVD Drive, Network Card.

Customer Reviews

Powerful protection for your computer
System Suite 8 is just what I've been looking for! Since installing it my computer runs much faster and smoother and loading programs and files is once again a "snap." Just like it was when I first bought my laptop. I feel like I have a brand new computer!

Installing the software was a bit "hairy." One of my other programs (which was supposed to be "disabled") kept popping up messages and acting weird. But once System Suite was installed everything was okay and I was ready to see what this program could do. So I clicked the two ONE CLICK buttons to protect and optimize my computer and just let it do its thing. After awhile the software reported my system to now be in "excellent" shape. Boy, that was an understatement!

All my files and programs now load rapidly and when browsing the internet switching back and forth between tabs in Firefox is virtually instantaneous. This program ROCKS!

I had previously been using PC Trend Micro, which did an excellent job handling viruses and spyware. Well, System Suite 8 uses Trend Micro's technology for those functions PLUS restores and tunes up your computer and keeping everything running at its peak! All this for a bargain price.

The interface is clean, neat and very user friendly. Very simple. However, if you want to adjust the settings you certainly can. And you can schedule the functions to run in the background anytime you wish. I like the way System Suite gently "pops up" a lower-corner report occasionally to show you the status of your system. It's like having a friendly technician constantly working for you, just to make sure you have a pleasant computing experience.

I've been using computers for 20 years now and this System Suite software is a real treat. It does everything it is supposed to. And unlike some software that slow down your system (I won't mention Norton), System Suite 8 speeds things up!

My wife and I both love this software (you can install it on 3 computers) and we highly recommend it. System Suite 8 has tuned things up for us, is protecting our computers and is keeping everything running at maximum speed and efficiency. We wish ALL computer programs were this good! :)

Just take your time installing the program. Then simply click the ONE CLICK buttons to optimize your system. After that you can tweak the powerful settings anyway you wish and schedule the software to keep everything running at maximum efficiency. System Suite is powerful and simple to operate. You can't get much simpler than ONE CLICK buttons! But for those of you who want to "get under the hood" and tweak things yourself, you certainly can. This software is fantastic!

UPDATE: September 3, 2008 ... Three weeks ago my wife and I switched to Apple MacIntosh computers, so we no longer need this software (viruses, defragging, etc. is no longer an issue for us). However, I just sent an email to Avanquest thanking them for this great product. Anyone using a PC would benefit greatly from this software that works great. It's one of those programs that works "the way its supposed to" on the Windows system. Highly recommended, and I wish you all the best.

Disappointing
Systemsuite is more than just an internet spam/virus/firewall, it comes with utility tools for the system. For the duration I have this program, I liked these tools and they functioned well. After 4 months of having this program, I have to uninstall it from both of the computers (I have bought the 3-user version for $10 @ Fry's).

On the first computer: after a month of usage, I was informed the registration code was used already. !!Dah!! Of course! That's me who used the code for registration! It just shut down the program that I cannot find a way to fix it. On my second computer: I cannot update the virus files through easyupdate. I have to download and update the pattern files manually! This is a real hassle. There is no help available to correct this problem.

But the deciding factor for me to uninstall this program is when my computer was infected by a virus/trojan or whatever. Ad-Aware picked it up in the first scan and quarantine it immediately. However systemsuite cannot detect it after numerous scans. This is not a new virus, according to McAfee website, it has been active since 2005. !!??Huh??!! Isn't that the purpose of having an anti-virus? Shouldn't it scan the files as it download to the computer? If it cannot detect a 3-year old virus, you think it is going to detect any of the new ones? If the security software offers no security, then it is not worth having it.

My recommendation: Stay away from Systemsuite.

Malware protection is probably defective -- Avenquest/v-com
I've used System Suite since version 4 or 5 (maybe earlier?). It has some useful features but in Version 7, the anti-spyware was very weak and the firewall had SERIOUS LEAKS. I purchased version 8, but use little of it.
Here's why:
1. While using SS 7,my computer was attacked several times, with my files being copied to the computer of a hacker. Luckily, my files were not damaged and contained no personal information like an ss number. I discovered the problem when I realized that my CPU was running full-blast and my GoBack utility was repeatedly suspended due to "massive file activity." [GoBack was purchased by Symantec and has NOT been updated for Windows Vista.]

2. I contacted Avanquest/v-com and was sent a link to a "fixed" firewall setup file. Questions: 1) Why didn't Avanquest/v-com notify its registered users of the firewall update? 2) Why wasn't the firewall included in the SS7 Easy-Update downloads? 3) Why didn't Avanquest/v-com respond to my emails that asked questions 1) and 2)?

3. I now run Kaspersky Internet Security. Kaspersky is not for everyone: You have to be willing to get A LOT of warnings and decide what to do with each. Thus, my wife's computer is running SS8 firewall and anti-virus. There's no way she can deal with the Kaspersky warnings, and she is unlikely to click on or download questionable links or files.

4. Just today, Kaspersky warned that a harmless-looking link was a phishing site. The SS8 Linkscanner said the link was OK. Guess which one I believed.

5. I am running PCTools anti-spyware--the free, Google tools version, which seems to find much more spyware than does SS8. [Note: Google may add some undetected spyware with the free PCTools download...but my Kaspersky catches Google's attempt to connect my computer to Google's.]

6. There are good, free alternatives to some of the SS utilities. In particular, see Mike Lin's utilities at [...] .

7. Note: The SS8 Startup Commander 2 says that the KAVP program is dangerous. It is actually Kaspersky!