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xsBusiness - System Suite 8 Professional
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List Price: $49.99
Our Price: $4.75
Your Save: $ 45.24 ( 90% )
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Avanquest
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Average Customer Rating:   
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Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Avanquest
EAN: 0018059014701
Feature: Virus & Spyware Protection; Firewall & Anti-Spam
Format: CD-ROM
Label: Avanquest
Manufacturer: Avanquest
Model: 1471
Platform: Windows XP
Publisher: Avanquest
Release Date: 2007-09-01
Studio: Avanquest
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Features
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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
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Avoid Avanquest Branded Software at all Costs
Comment: Oh, unfortunately this was my fourth software purchase from Avanquest, the maker of System Suite 8. I will not make the mistake of purchasing an Avanquest product again! This software comes nicely packaged as anti-virus and spyware, but that is about it, the software is a joke compared to my recently found AND free AVG Antivirus and less costly Spyware Doctor. The other tools included with System Suite 8...well, I've found them to be annoying and useless and they tend to slow my computer down.
Just my personal opinion, but this software along with everything else I've bought from Avanquest, inluding WebEasy 7, Disk Utilities Professional and Fix-It Utilities 8 is garbage.
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Summary: Poor Customer Service Experience
Comment: It's not a bad product. But my experience of Avanquest's customer service wasn't very good.
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Summary: Disaster Recovery Disc Fails to Boot
Comment: I'd love to give this product an full review -- however, after a hard drive failure I inserted the bootable disaster recovery CD (the product comes as a bootable CD) and guess what --- ITS CORRUPT!!! I've verified it's the CD (removed all other drives, etc) and it clearly is the CD that has bad files and such on it.
Avanquest -- putting the "K" back in Kwality for your disaster rekuvery needs. Back to the computer store to try a different product.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Almost Perfect...!
Comment: SystemSuite 8, like SS7, is a terrific set of tools and antivirus/antispyware/antimalware. However, when I read many of the reviews here, I see people that installed SS and had unrealistic expectations on what it would do to an unstable system.
Look, if your computer is already messed up to the point where Windows needs to be re-installed, then no software tool suite is going to help you. That's as wasteful as changing the oil in a blown engine.
SystemSuite does have the most efficient anti-virus and antispyware you can get. We ran tests, and on an older Pentium 850MHz system the slowdown when running the antivirus/antispyware is noticeable, but barely. I'd congratulate Avanquest for the excellent job, except that they use TrendMicro's well-known antivirus/antispyware engine.
However, for a Corporate or small office environment, SS7 has three big huge gaping "gotchas":
1. The email scan will refuse to download emails past 3Meg. That means that if you have 8Megs of email waiting for you on the server, you will only see 3Megs of email and then it will stop downloading, leaving 5Megs of email unread, unknown, and unloved on your mail server.
2. Don't even try to download any single email larger than 3Megs because it won't. That means that the huge PowerPoint presentation your boss just sent you will become lost, just like your job.
3. Downloading those emails (assuming you know they are there - SS won't tell you!) requires turning off the email anti-virus, which can't be done unless you are logged into WindowsXP/2000 as an administrator. So, you have to shutdown your computer and re-login as an Administrator, turn off email anti-virus, re-login, download your email, then shutdown and reboot to turn email antivirus back on. That's unacceptable.
Actually, most of the SystemSuite features except for virus scan are unavailable unless you are logged in as an Admin.
In other features, SS has a terrific set of tools to keep your computer running in top shape. The disk defrag is one of the best, and the registry defrag is welcome for many systems. SS also comes with Startup Commander which shows you all the programs in your Start folder as well as the Run keys in your registry. A nice feature of this tool is that as you click on the startup program, a separate window explains IN DETAIL what the program is, who made it, and what it does - a welcome touch that saves you from having to search the internet for an explanation.
The the various cleanup tools are easy to use and rid your hard drive of unnecessary files. There is even a hardware diagnostics tool, something you rarely see on tool suites nowadays.
Novices should stay away from the registry fixer, because it's a tool for advanced users only. As with all registry cleaner tools, if you don't know what you are doing it can hose your system bad.
I never even installed the firewall - we use Agnitum's Outpost on all our computers - so we didn't even bother to test it.
The previous SS7 had some nice Uninstall tools that could backup an application with all it's files, and even allow you to move the application to a new computer. Those features were removed from SS8, and hopefully they will re-appear in SS9 which should be released later this year.
Back when these tools were sold and supported by V-COM, technical support was OUTSTANDING! But now, since Avanquest took over, technical support has been occasionally disappointmenting.
In summary, while this is a really powerful suite, the antivirus/antispyware is as bad as it is good.
Customer Rating:
Summary: problems with software and they will not send my rebate
Comment: I bought this software because it was offered for 0.00 after rebate and I had been having problems with Norton. Well, 8 months later and after constant complaining they still have not sent my rebate. Furthermore, the software kept crashing my computer so I had to pull it off. Horrible customer support and my free software turned out to be an expensive lesson.
Be aware if there is a rebate they will pull everything they can to not send it to you. I will never buy another Avanquest product again.
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Editorial Reviews:
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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
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