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34 out of 38 people found this review helpful
3 stars
Version: Cyberhawk 1.1.1.3
"Descent idea, but the performance hit your computer will take isn't worth it."
Pros: Its free.
It comes with automatic updates.
It has a nice interface.
It shows information about how many events it has inspected and/or blocked.
Has ability to start with windows.
Cons: It will slow down your computer. While it did have its affects on my compute rin general, the largest hit came in internet browsing...Internet Explorer was slow to load and loading pages was very painful.
The events information in the main screen is a little ambiguous. It says it defends against 3,000,000 or something different events. Its really hard to contemplate how they got that number.
On a computer with antivirus and antispyware and Advert Removers with active shields you will see that CyberHawk will not find many problems.
As another review said, uninstall is quite slow. It also requires a reboot at completion.
Doesn't give you much in-depth information about what specific part of a process is bad if it detects something.
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They advertise as being something which no other antivirus and antispyware has. While I can attest to the antivirus part, I cant say the same for antispyware. The product Spyware Terminator, which is also free, includes this same exact feature. That feature is called HIPS (Host Intrustion Prevention System). Its the same exact idea...it scans activity at the most critical level of your computer where generic antispyware and antivirus programs would never scna to begin with. And I think Spyware Terminator does its protection better and with less performance hits than CyberHawk.
Overall its a nice program, but I dont think you should completely ditch Antivirus/Antispyware as this program alludes to. Just stick to your favorite antivirus and go get Spyware Terminator.
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10 out of 13 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: Cyberhawk 1.2.0.39
Pros: does exactly what it says. fills a whole between your firewall and spyware programs.. gives you great alerts on whats running. using that along with zonealarm antivir and spyprotector which cnet doesnt offer yet doesnt leave much room for intrusion.
Cons: none.
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5 out of 6 people found this review helpful
4 stars
Version: Cyberhawk 1.2.0.39
"Great Protection But Too Many Conflicts"
Pros: its the best HIPS program and only has pop-ups on major conflicts instead of the others, where almost every application has a pop-up for
Cons: it does conflict with alot of other products which if it does will either majorly slow down the pc or cause crashes. the protection is 5 star but with so many conflicting apps, i can only give it a 4
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2 out of 6 people found this review helpful
1 stars
Version: Cyberhawk 2.0.1.2
Cons: Almost crashed my pc after installation
It's not free
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8 out of 10 people found this review helpful
1 stars
Version: Cyberhawk 1.1.3.2
Pros: Freeware.
Cons: This program bogs the system down dramtically, my normal cpu usage is 24% at the max when I'm just rowsing the internet and when this program is installed it jumps up to around 70%. It has a numerous reports of fals positives, for example: I tried updating one of my anti-spywares and I got a pop up saying that it was a high risk threat, that was done with several programs such as my anti-virus.
Free doesn't cut it, make a program that actually works. Reason I say this is that I shut off all my anti-spywares and anti virus for a little experiment, I then went to a virus site and started clicking anything that would give me a pop up and nothing poped up forwarning me or making a log of it, so I went to some more virus sites and did the same thing, still nothing. I then ran a bunch of scans from my various anti-spywares and my anti-virus, to my suprise a bunch of spyware and virus' were on my system.
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