[Ken Underwood]

pcguard - the REASON

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Finally!
Unravelled the mystery of pcguard.
Thought you might be interested.
What I found rather undermines the omniscience we'd like to believe of the Virtual Mother we all know and love. PCguard is set up for vista.
1. The greed for resources (where it scans for prob 40-50 mins per hour using around 40%processor time) is very noticable if you have a single processor.
2. The 'Sidebyside' source error log43's are caused by Vista having (and XP not having) C++2005.
3. The 1000+ items in the Startup Program Group (in Windows Help and Resource Centre) are there because Vista can shuffle around system files and folders in a way that XP cannot.
This valuable information was confirmed by (would you believe it?) a member of VM helpline staff who not only was (and spoke!) English, he knew what he was on about AND what I was on about.

The point of this is VM let you imagine pcguard is ok on XP - no warnings - but it is crap for XP without multiple processors, and it's taken a lot of detective work to reach any satisfying answer.

ANYONE who installs pcguard on an XP machine will suffer these problems, I think, so maybe this needs pointing out.
If you think it's a good idea I'll post it as a new topic.
I've now got Avast, Spywareblaster, Spywareguard, Superantispyware and Windows Firewall.
Hope you're all well.

Ken Underwood