Prevx Prevx Home Review

Overall Rating

Totally free

It is the only free software to block zero day hacker/spyware/trojans/worm attacks

Developed by a team of experts working on large enterprise software - so should work well.

Beginners may have some trouble understanding it at the outset.

Large download if on dial up.

Prevx Home is compact and seems to work as promised. A quick web search seems that it is actually the only piece of software that can block spyware/hackers/worms etc, which can be a real pain once they access your computer and are left there. It is a very forward looking piece of software that is trying to tackle what Prevx see as a problem - namely the fact that anti virus software simply cannot cope against a new era of internet nasties. The reason being most AV software relies on updates - which are too slow because people are often targeted before their AV package has had time to update, or even recognise a threat.

The interface is user friendly and sits on your toolbar without being too distracting however It may cause confusion for novice users in much the same way personal firewall software such as ZoneAlarm does because it works on an 'allow or not allow' basis.

Any time that an application attempts to access system memory or critical files or alter the registry Prevx Home detects the activity and either blocks it completely or asks the user how to proceed. This means it will detect and prevent buffer overflows and overruns, modification of critical files and directories, unauthorized changes to critical areas of the system registry and more.

Easily worth installing this nice freebie before the big companies cotton on to what is going on and start trying to throw their weight around and charging for it. You can get it at https://www.prevx.com/homeoffice/homeoffice_homedo wnload.htm highly reccomended

Members' Comments ontweed's Review

• golan7 on 29th Oct 2004

  I agree with UK's review of Prevx Home. It is easy to install and update. I have found the program to be very effective. It may be daunting to novice computer users who are not familar with the processes and applications running on their system. It could be possible for them to allow a malicious application to run. Overall there is a need for a product of this type due to the prevalence of viruses and malware flowing over the internet these days. This has worked quite on small office networks whose applications are web based. KUDOS Prevx.

• emmpe on 16th Feb 2007

  I agree with the previous comment, but feel I have to add this: PrevX is not free, but the pricing policy is really decent IMO. The program will run full featured and protect from attacks for free, until the day you might download or otherwise acquire an infection. Then PrevX will clean your machine, and a thirty day trial period starts, after which you can choose between paying per year, per month or cleanup. It's true that its alerts can scare you sometimes when you're new to them, but if you don't panic and keep cool, check them out (PrevX has its own malware database) and use your sense, you'll stop worrying within a week or so. But be warned: Even though PrevX works by watching the behaviour of processes rather than checking against a set of definitions, an occasional bad guy might slip through, which goes for each and every protection software. Still, this is one piece of software I don't want to be without.