A year ago, if you wanted to scan a computer for spyware, viruses and to prevent attacks via the Internet, you would have needed three or more pieces of software. But new products like F-Secure's Anti-Virus ...

Lacking the backing of an Adobe budget and the refined presentation that makes some of its competition so attractive to use, DVD-Lab Pro is a case in point for that old cliché about books and their ...

Keeping your PC secure against people who want to do it harm takes more than anti-virus software. You do need protection against viruses, of course, but in some ways the more insidious threats are adware, which ...

The goal of SystemWorks is to provide a comprehensive suite of maintenance and security tools, all wrapped up in one neat package. There are four main programs: Norton Antivirus, GoBack, Utilities and Cleanup. As we've come ...

Nero is regarded by many as the emperor of the disc burning world, although there's a lot more that this Premium edition can do besides CD/DVD writing. In fact there's so much it can do, it's ...

The clue, as they say, is in the title. Amidst the various corporate manoeuvrings of last year, Sonic Solutions picked up the small matter of Roxio's software business. Cunningly, the company has decided not to wait ...

VMWare Workstation is a computer virtualisation package that lets you install multiple PC 'guest' operating systems on one computer and have them running at the same time, with none of the inconvenience of dual-boot configurations. Currently ...

You can do a lot more with Print Audit 4 than the product name would imply. In addition to finding out who's printing what, when and where, the software can also be used to limit and ...

Maintaining a backup image of your Windows installation is a useful security measure, and TrueImage 8 aims to make this task as straightforward as possible, even for non-technical users. It can create and save images of ...

It's no secret that the Windows operating system, in spite of all its qualities, is not without its foibles. And few can be more annoying than when the OS clogs up, slows downs, blue-screens and generally ...

With its ability to run multiple instances of Windows on the same server hardware, Microsoft's Virtual Server 2005 is a great tool for developers wanting to test applications at minimal cost. Likewise it can be used ...

The two leading purveyors of anti-virus software - Symantec (Norton) and McAfee - have for several years been adding value to their basic product by bundling it in suites with related security software. McAfee's latest offering ...

We might be falling on the side of cynical here, but to us, the key reason people would want to buy a package like this is to copy commercial DVDs (be it for backup or less ...

This is a bluff, we thought to ourselves, as the familiar yellow-and-white Symantec anti-virus package plopped through our letterbox. The package looks the same, but that's surely just those cunning virus-beating boffins toying with us. Upon ...

This is a major competitor to the likes of Partition Magic, and we first reviewed it here. Its whole aim in life is to make partition management something anybody can do. If you have several partitions ...

SystemWorks really does do the works. As well as Ghost, covered elsewhere in this group test, the suite includes Norton Anti-Virus, Utilities, Password Manager, GoBack and CleanSweep, as well as WebTools and numerous other little helpers. ...

Ghost is one of the original disk imaging tools, designed to take an exact copy of a disk partition to copy elsewhere. The main elements of the program are again Wizard-driven and you can save drive ...

When launched, Drive Image 7 was a PowerQuest product, but earlier this year that company was acquired by Symantec, so this product and its well-known partner, Partition Magic, are now both available from the home of ...

This is probably the best-known drive installation and upgrade manager in the world and Ontrack claims over 150 million copies have been sold. Rather than working with existing drives in a PC, it aims to provide ...

Acronis specialises in hard drive housekeeping software and True Image is the company's offering for saving and restoring complete hard drive images. It runs from Windows, but also includes a facility to prepare a boot floppy ...