in my opinion prevx 2.0 is great
if i get malware into my computer and i run the malware by accident, it stops it from loading and tells me its malware and the status goes red so i clik cancel and select the malware, shift+del it to permanently delete it. then the prevx status goes green again. saves me time doing the “cleanup logs” part.

great product!
other versions of prevx:
prevx cgi
prevx 1
prevx home (no expiration)

people, if you scroll this far down to read this, buy a copy of prevX. i’ve put it through tests and found it’s actually able to do what it claims. thankyou GAOD for introducing me to prevX, it’s saved my two laptops and my server and it cost me nothing!

It was a tough task to uninstall Prevx. I downloaded their uninstall tool, but it failed, and left the PC hanging. Had to boot to Safe Mode and set the Prevx Agent Service to Disabled (just in case I had to boot to normal mode again). Now the Uninstall Tool worked (since the Agent Service is not started in Safe Mode). I also gave Administrators full access to the Prevx Agent key in registry, but that did not seam to help. Maybe this is documented some place, but I did not find it.

I’m always amazed when people start talking about the use of resources. All anti-malware products use some resources. The ideal is to find a product or products that offer the most protection with the least impact on your system. That said, programs that are strictly definition based are obsolete and can’t keep up with the sophistication and speed of malware writers. At this time Prevx is unique in that it not only uses definition based technology and heuristics it uses other techniques that as has previously stated elsewhere use rootkit techniques in order to battle rootkits, bots and the like. In other words while this program may use more resources than some, it is doing more. IMO, it uses less resources than the popular Norton and McAfee Security Suites. Prevx, however, does not protect against spam or phishing attacks.

The end user will have to decide whether a product that works as effectively as Prevx 2.0 is worth the slight hit you take on your system resources. Bear in mind that it is doing more than any other product currently on the market. In functionality it operates similarly to anti-virus, anti-spyware, and in some regards a firewall.

My first 30 days with Prevx 2.0 has been very good. There have been a couple false positives that I notified Prevx of and were corrected inside of 48 hours. Time will tell if the day comes that I feel I can drop my paid anti-virus and anti-malware products.

Interestingly enough the strength of Prevx 2.0 lies in the very complaints that some have posted. It operates at the kernal level, which is below the USER MODE level. That’s why complete removal of every trace of Prevx is difficult. The kernel level is where many modern day malware writers are now attacking. I assume that is the reason some have had difficulty with uninstalls (though I have not) because Prevx will protect itself against malware from trying to directly or indirectly shut it down.

At the kernel level, rootkits can cloak themselves and most anti-mailware products will never see them. Where the average anti-virus gets compromised, Prevx does not. This is one sophisticated piece of software that in my mind will only get better.

If you are not comfortable with making occasional decisions about what operation to jail and what to let run, then Prevx is probably not for you. But then neither is a 3rd Party Firewall or anti-spyware with active protection. They ask the same kind of questions and a wrong answer can mean you let the bad guys have control or at the least render a program inoperative. One advantage of Prevx is that if you don’t do a cleanup and just leave the potential malware jailed, no harm is done. If you have a good program that ceases to run or run properly, just place the jailed item into Probation and the program will be backup and running again.

If you are the kind of person, that gets squeamish about installing and installing programs and/or you’ve never heard of Safe Mode, System Restore or you have but you don’t know how to use these features, then you are a novice and I would not recommend Prevx. If, on the other hand, you are not a PC novice; You are not an avid gamer; you have at least a 2.4Ghz single core processor with at least 512MB of RAM on an XP machine and you’ll read the Prevx tutoral, then you owe it to yourself to try out Prevx 2.0 and make up your own mind. Programs like Prevx are the future of malware protection today.