PC Tools Internet Security is a comprehensive security suite that offers complete protection to your computer by combining PC Tools' award winning Anti-Spyware, Anti-Virus, Anti-Spam and Firewall protection into an all-in-one, easy-to-use product.

PC Tools Internet Security 2009 - What's New?

• Latest protection from unknown threats

  PC Tools Internet Security now has Behavior Guard, providing you with the latest pro-active behavioral-based technology against zero-day (never seen before) threats. Built on the award-winning ThreatFire technology, Behavior Guard has been seamlessly incorporated into PC Tools Internet Security to offer you leading protection. This new technology protects you when some anti-virus products give up! Read more about behavior-based protection.

• Improved detection capabilities:

  PC Tools Internet Security has been enhanced to improve detection effectiveness. In particular, each individual signature created in the threat database is optimized so that it is capable of detecting multiple variations of malware threats (threat variants) while maintaining minimal system resource usage (memory footprint).

• Internet browsing protection - Browser Defender™ toolbar :

  Your Microsoft Internet Explorer can take advantage of this optional feature in PC Tools Internet Security called Browser Defender. If offers website safety alerts to provide peace of mind as you surf the Internet.

  Browser Defender features:

  • Checks downloads for viruses, adware, spyware or other possibly unwanted programs
  • Allows you to surf safely by displaying website ratings as you browse the Internet
  • Integrates with the search results provided by popular search engines such as Google and Yahoo! so you can see if it is safe to continue even before you visit a website
  • Alerts you about websites with annoyances such as excessive pop-ups, phishing or browser exploits
  • Checks downloads for viruses, adware, spyware or other possibly unwanted programs

• Swift clean-up for heavily infected computers:

  PC Tools Internet Security is able to detect and remove threats on heavily infected computers faster and easier than ever before. Sometimes your computer is so highly infected that you may find yourself unable to install or run security software except when in the ‘safe mode’ of Windows.

  In these cases, malware consumes computer resources resulting in lengthy scanning and removal times. is now armed with the technology to scan in safe mode faster and more effectively by forcing your computer to take a higher priority over the scan than the malware and other software attempting to run on your system.

• Improved Hacker Defense* :

  Further improvements have been included to enhance our own defense against malware threats attempting to interfere with the effectiveness of PC Tools Internet Security . Our hacker defense system means you can rest assured that your computer system has the most comprehensive protection while ensuring that malware threats don’t impede on the functionality or effectiveness of PC Tools Internet Security.

  The new hacker defense utilizes a particular feature available in Windows Vista (known as ASLR) to make it difficult for hackers to exploit or gain control over PC Tools Internet Security .

  *Applies to Windows Vista only.

• Enhanced spam detection:

  The anti-spam component of PC Tools Internet Security has been optimized to quickly process incoming and outgoing emails and has improved learning capabilities to distinguish spam email from legitimate email. PC Tools Internet Security not only supports MIcrosoft Outlook, but now supports Mozilla Thunderbird, Eudora, and any other email client that uses either the POP3 or IMAP email standards.

• Firewall Enhancements

  The firewall component of PC Tools Internet Security has been upgraded to offer your computer better protection. It provides a defense against malware attempting to bypass the firewall and transmitting unauthorized data, such as your personal information, to an unauthorized third party, (hackers!).

• Other enhancements

  • Support for Windows Security Centre in Windows Vista Service Pack 1
  • The real-time protection module is now referred to as Intelli Guard®
  • Enhanced error reporting to assist with diagnosis of program crashes.

PC Tools Internet Security Key Features

• Easy one-click design

  PC Tools Internet Security provides a streamlined user interface that is simple and easy to use. The individual components of PC Tools Internet Security are integrated into the home screen and can be quickly activated and configured with just one-click. This smart design gives you easy access to manage the security settings of your computer.

• Anti-malware

  Protection against both spyware and viruses.

  • Anti-Spyware & Anti-Virus - Provides advanced malware protection that combines the award-winning technology from PC Tools’ Spyware Doctor with comprehensive anti-virus protection. The Anti-Spyware feature offers protection for your computer against identity theft, stealthy spyware, aggressive adware, browser hijackers, malicious ActiveX objects, malware Trojans, tracking cookies, keyloggers, dialers, and other malware. While the Anti-Virus feature protects your computer from viruses, worms, Trojan horse threats, and other malicious infections.
  • Real-time protection - PC Tools Internet Security provides constant protection against malware through its IntelliGuard feature. IntelliGuard constantly monitors your computer for malicious behavior involving spyware processes, tracking cookies, malicious ActiveX objects, browser hijackers, keyloggers, Trojans and more. IntelliGuard works by blocking all these threats before they can install on your computer and cause any harm.
  • On-Demand scanning to clean infected computers - By running an Intelli-Scan, Full Scan or Custom Scan PC Tools Internet Security will inspect your computer for all types of spyware and virus infections. The unique, patent-pending spider scanning technology works intelligently by using a combination of signature and behavioral scanning techniques to quickly and effectively identify spyware threats. The unique Intelli-Scan™ feature is specifically designed to hunt swiftly and kill active running spyware threats. Intelli-Scan completes in as little as 3 minutes¹, accredited to the intuitive and patent-pending spider scanning technology.
  • Advanced Rootkit detection - PC Tools Internet Security is capable of detecting and removing hidden processes associated with complex threats and rootkits. Using behavioral techniques rootkits and other items that attempt to hide themselves are easily detected and removed.
  • Email Guard protects your computer from threats delivered via email - Email Guard provides protection against, and instantly removes, spyware and viruses being sent or received via e-mails. All popular e-mail applications (such as Outlook Express™ & Netscape® Mail and Thunderbird) that use POP, IMAP or SMTP are supported by Email Guard.
  • Site Guard protects your computer while browsing – Site Guard provides advanced protection against potential malicious websites and phishing attacks where dangerous site are masquerading as legitimate eCommerce sites.

  ¹ Results achieved during internal testing conducted by PC Tools, results may vary.

• Anti-Spam

  Advanced Detection of unsolicited junk e-mails in your mailbox.

  • Supports popular e-mail clients - Anti-Spam is designed to work with a range of popular email clients including all recent versions of Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express and Mozilla Mail (for POP3 & IMAP).
  • Adaptive and automated behavioral filtering technology - Using intuitive behavioral (Bayesian) technology to filter spam, Anti-Spam can be trained to automatically identify spam e-mails. The filter technology identifies spam e-mail with increasing precision as it is exposed to a greater number and range of spam e-mails.
  • Automated white-list for e-mails or domains - The Automatic Friends List feature can be configured to automatically white-list email or IP addresses from which you receive emails on a frequent basis. White-listed e-mails and IP addresses are those which Anti-Spam marks as safe and will never be marked as spam.

  • Customizable settings for fine-tuning spam detection - Anti-Spam includes a number of customizable settings for the advanced user, such as the white and black lists, which can be configured to enhance and fine-tune its ability to identify spam.

    Other customizations include:

    • A local Friends List (white list) and Block List (black list) for both email and IP addresses
    • Real-time Blacklists, allowing the selection of various lists which contain IP addresses that are known sources of spam
    • Blacklisted Countries, providing the ability to black-list countries whose servers send you more spam than legitimate email messages.

• Firewall

  Advanced protection against network intruders

  • Smart Application Rules - The Firewall component incorporates a set of smart application rules which allow you to create a behavior-based set of rules that control how applications connect to the Internet and networks.
  • Stealth Mode protection - This feature within the Firewall causes your computer to appear invisible to other computers in the network. When in Stealth Mode, your computer is able to make connections to other computers in the network, but Firewall will prevent other computers from connecting with yours.
  • Data validation using SPI (stateful packet inspection) - Firewall validates data using stateful packet inspection (SPI) in which it performs a protocol handshake and if successful, allows data transfer. Otherwise all traffic is blocked ensuring no unauthorized data is transferred onto your computer.
  • Software Application protection - Firewall offers protection to your software applications by guarding them against unauthorized access. Enabling this option will shield applications on your computer from unauthorized attempts to take control of them and potentially use them for malicious purposes.

Additional Features

• Automatic Smart Updates - Frequent updates to detect and guard against new threats and viruses as well as provide enhancements to Internet Security are automatically accessed through the Smart Update function.
• Scheduler tool to automate regular scanning and updates - The Scheduler within PC Tools Internet Security allows you to schedule scans or Smart Updates at specified times and intervals. These actions can be conducted in the background and also set to begin only when your CPU usage is below a specified level to ensure minimal impact on your computer performance.

Minimum System Requirements:

• Windows®¹ 2000 SP4/XP (Home and Pro) SP2/Vista™²
• 300 MHz CPU or faster (1 GHz CPU for Vista)
• 256MB RAM for XP (512MB RAM for Vista Home Basic & 1GB RAM for all other versions of Vista)
• 150MB of free hard disk space
• 8X CD-ROM drive or faster
• Super VGA 800 x 600 video adapter
• MIcrosoft® Internet Explorer® 6.0 or higher (Internet Explorer 6.0 is required to view a formatted display of Internet Security Logs)
• 56 Kbps modem or faster and Internet service provider account required for Internet access ³
• Internet access is required to register product and receive product updates.