ADVANCED SYSTEMCARE ULTIMATE REVIEW INSTALL
ADVANCED SYSTEMCARE ULTIMATE REVIEW UPGRADE
ADVANCED SYSTEMCARE ULTIMATE REVIEW FULL
ADVANCED SYSTEMCARE ULTIMATE REVIEW PRO

ADVANCED SYSTEMCARE ULTIMATE REVIEW PRO

Advanced SystemCare Pro earned 3.5 stars in our review. Exercising the test system after tune-up, we found it noticeably snappier.

ADVANCED SYSTEMCARE ULTIMATE REVIEW FULL

Time tests, detailed in the full review, showed that the tune-up process measurably improved performance. Some were free, which is fine, but we weren't pleased to find that others required a separate payment.

ADVANCED SYSTEMCARE ULTIMATE REVIEW INSTALL

We found Advanced SystemCare Pro to be brimming with opportunities to install other IObit programs. On the Speed Up tab, Turbo Boost kills unnecessary services for a performance boost, Hardware Accelerate looks for old drives, Deep Optimization goes beyond basic tune-up, and App/Toolbar Cleaner advises installing IObit Uninstaller to clean up unwanted apps. Fixing detected problems can free up disk space and improve performance.Р”Р„mong the other privacy and performance features are: Security Reinforce, which diagnoses security weaknesses HomePage Advisor, which protects against browser hijacking Disk Cleaner, which removes junk files and Performance Monitor, a desktop widget that tracks RAM and CPU usage. The product doesn't clarify precisely what it means by spyware threats. When you launch a scan, it looks for startup items, privacy traces, junk files, invalid shortcuts, problems in the registry, and spyware threats. Surfing protection is one such it marks up unsafe links in search results and steers you away from fraudulent (phishing) websites. Some of these components require a separate download. You configure it to recognize your own face in the webcam, and it warns if it detects an unknown face. Among these are Surfing Protection, Browser Anti-Tracking, Real-time Protector, and FaceID. Some components remain inactive until you turn them on. Do note that where this product offers three licenses, AVG TuneUp and Iolo System Mechanic, our Editors' Choice products for tune-up utilities, impose no such limit. In both cases, we chose to stick with the product at hand. During the install process, both for the tune-up tool and Ultimate, it offered to install adaware web companion. In this review, we'll focus on the antivirus. Please peruse that review for full details of our findings, beyond the summary below. The Ultimate edition includes all the tune-up features found in IObit Advanced SystemCare PRO. That same $59.99 gets you licenses to install McAfee AntiVirus Plus on all your devices. Bitdefender, Kaspersky, and Webroot charge $59.99 for three licenses.

Norton charges the same $49.99, but for one license. Webroot costs the same as IObit for three licenses.

IObit's pricing is in line with competing products.

Given the need for constant vigilance and antivirus updates, the subscription model does make sense. Advanced SystemCare Ultimate, like almost every other antivirus tool, is a subscription, $49.99 per year.

ADVANCED SYSTEMCARE ULTIMATE REVIEW UPGRADE

You can purchase the tune-up utility once and use it for as long as you like, paying again only if you upgrade to a more advanced version. IObit's products are almost always steeply discounted, but at first glance, the list price of this mini-suite and of the standalone tune-up tool appear the same-$49.99 for use on three PCs. The current version 11 adds ransomware protection, among other enhancements, but testing revealed a big hole in protection against ransomware, and the product failed some of our hands-on tests. The company's main focus is tuning performance, with antivirus capabilities added only in the top-of-the-line IObit Advanced SystemCare Ultimate. With IOBit, things are the other way around. When antivirus utilities expand into full-scale security suites, we're accustomed to seeing them add performance tune-up tools, perhaps to offset any perceived slowdown caused by security functions.

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