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System Suite 8 Professional | 
 enlarge | From: Avanquest
Category: Software
List Price: $49.99
Buy New: $24.49
You Save: $25.50 (51%)
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Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 661
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows 2000, Windows Xp
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.6 x 1.8
MPN: 1470
Model: 1471
UPC: 018059014718
EAN: 0018059014701
ASIN: B000V809MK
Release Date: September 1, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| 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 |
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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.
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
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| Customer Reviews: Read 8 more reviews...
Almost Perfect...! September 15, 2008
Honest Opinion (Boston, MA USA)
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.
 problems with software and they will not send my rebate August 21, 2008
gizmo's mom (south carolina)
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.
 Excellent Product, not such good support July 20, 2008
T. Sullivan (Northern Illinois)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The software itself is very high quality, does a fabulous job. However, I am having trouble with connecting to update. I sent an email to support over a month ago, and still have not heard a response. Poor customer service, but still I love the utilities.
Misnomer April 24, 2008
D. Means (MT)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Although this is probably the best product I have used for my home network, I think it is a misnomer to call it pro. As a Network Administrator I spent many weeks trying to upgrade our previous versions using a universal license key (read enterprise license). Our previous sales rep was always accommodating and managed our needs quite professionally. After his promotion everything went down hill, from bad part numbers to completely wrong information. After this three week runaround I finally received a part number but it was not universal. I informed them that using a separate key for each computer would be a logistical nightmare, we had always received a universal key. After the final contact I was informed that the upgrade price for our enterprise would include a universal key but that we would be required to pay 39.95 for each copy we purchase instead of for a block of three as had been the case previously. That effectively tripled our cost and made it unmanageable. It drove the cost far above what we would pay per license for other enterprise solutions. I was very disappointed as we had been using SS since version 5 and were very happy with their product. I am still very happy as a current end user and will continue to use the product at home, but don't confuse this with a professional or enterprise product. At least until their practices change.
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED April 3, 2008
Mama to Aid'nAsh
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
I realize that my review is not about this product, but I think it is relevant to potential purchasers of Avanquest products. I do not know anything about this particular program, but have had considerable difficulty with Avanquest as detailed below.
I purchased My Ultimate Organizer 7.0 via download and subsequent key.
I am not making this up - the product displayed a message in Serbo-Croatian telling me the key had expired.
Four hours later with Technical Support and the problem is still not resolved (despite erasing the program, reinstalling, trying different keys, searching the Windows Registry, etc). It takes a full hour on hold to get a technical support representative and at the conclusion of the last session, I was told to contact Customer Service for a CD copy in the hopes that that would resolve the issue. Now Customer Service tells me Technical Support must send me the copy, although Technical Support says otherwise. I am out $30 for a program that is at this point, totally useless, and left adrift by Avanquest who has my money and refuses to help me.
I would purchase Avanquest products with extreme caution. If you have a Technical Support issue, you will have to wait a minimum of 60 minutes on hold (no 800 number), and then get fairly substandard service after that.
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