Welcome to the Protection Control Center Blog!
Welcome to the new Protection Control Center (PCC) 2.0 blog. – Your source for everything PCC related! My name is Ben Kaplan and I am the Product Manager for PCC and will be writing weekly about PCC, Internet security news, and/or providing safe surfing advice. This will also be an opportunity for you, the reader, to give feedback on the product and/or ask questions regarding Internet security in general.
If you haven’t already begun to use PCC, I urge you to download it at (http://www.earthlink.net/software/pcc/) and get top notch protection. Our basic version of PCC gives you powerful Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware, Anti-Phishing, and Firewall tools that keep you safe from threats on the Internet. All of these excellent security components are integrated into one easy to use security suite that helps to take the guess work out of Internet security. EarthLink knows you don’t want to play IT manager!
You can also upgrade to PCC with Attack Shield for either $24 a year or $2.95/month if you get Internet access from EarthLink (and $36/year or $3.95/month otherwise). What is Attack Shield you ask? Attack Shield is a revolutionary technology that protects you from unknown viruses and spyware, commonly referred to as Zero-Day threats. Zero-Day threats are pieces of malicious code so new that your standard virus and spyware defintion files don’t yet recognize them, and so can’t remove them from your computer. Attack Shield doesn’t rely on scanning or definitions but instead studies the behaviors of activity on your computer and can differentiate between good and bad. Basically EarthLink's Attack Shield gives you an added layer of essential, real-time protection that counteracts typical lag-times between security software updates. Its constant behavioral monitoring means your computer doesn’t have to wait for a list of new viruses to know something on your computer is bad for you. EarthLink is proud to be the first ISP to offer this advanced level of protection that not even the big security companies can offer. I gave a preview of this with screen shots on the Earthling Blog back in November that might interest you.
If you have comments, questions, or problems regarding Protection Control Center or have concerns regarding Internet security, you can email me at pcc20@corp.earthlink.net. I will try and get back to all of your either through the blog or directly through email! As I’m only one person, I’d still recommend going through normal support channels (www.support.earthlink.net) should you encounter specific types of technical issues. From time to time I’ll be posting entries with problems and solutions to the most common issues with PCC. Please search the blog for your issue and if it is not mentioned please email me and I’ll post a response as soon as possible. You’ll also be able to post comments to the information that I write weekly. Thanks and I look forward to hearing from you!
Comments
Ben, is this program better than Norton? I'd like to try it.
Posted by: Bill Cooper | March 23, 2007 9:52 PM
I would like to see some comment on the system overhead utilized by the Protection Control Center. I have been unable as yet, to get a definitive answer from support as to the 20 to 25% CPU usage penalty exacted by TotalAccess when it is used. What overhead can I expect from the Protection Center package?
Posted by: Robert Mettler | March 28, 2007 3:43 PM