There is a new sheriff in town, Tencent PC Manager, a free antivirus that comes from one of the largest Chinese company, famous in Italy for the WeChat application that operates on the internet, comparable, for business volumes, to Google and Facebook . Someone may turn their mouths when they hear about China in the IT field, the reality of the facts, however, is that they know how to do it with technology and, regarding antivirus, we have seen how effective the protection of free antivirus Qihoo 360 Security is., we see another new alternative on the market, the Tencent antivirus, free and reliable even more than the best known programs.
Tencent PC Manager claims to have " the largest Cloud Security base ", the best anti-virus engine and seven international certifications.
It offers protection from viruses, spyware, malware, rootkits and even unknown threats.
In addition to protecting your PC from viruses, the program also detects and fixes system performance problems with a variety of tools to optimize Windows automatically.
Tencent PC Manager is powerful because, like Quihoo 360 and Hitman, it uses multiple malicious software detection engines and, precisely:
- Tencent cloud
- Tencent Antivirus engine
- Avira antivirus engine
- Tencent system repair engine
Tencent PC Manager has a very ready and almost unbeatable real-time protection since, as soon as you download a file from the Internet, it is examined internally and blocked in case of detected danger.
The antivirus therefore always remains active in the background for real-time protection and allows you to scan your computer for manual checks.
Also included are a phishing filter that recognizes bogus sites, secure browsing, webcam protection, USB port protection and protection from hijacking and hacking attempts.
In addition to the quick scan, you can do a custom scan to check selected folders, to check Windows processes, automatic startup and frequently used programs.
Looking at the reliability and accuracy of the Tencent PC Manager antivirus, one can believe the major test companies, such as AVTest, which assigns the maximum score at the protection level .
As for the performance on the PC, on the other hand, there is a bit of heaviness due to the Avira antivirus resistance.
You can turn off the Avira engine to make PC Manager lighter, even if you only have to rely on proprietary detection engines.
Another weak point is the lack of an option to have automatic scheduled scanning, leaving the user the task of doing it occasionally.
Even if Quihoo 360 remains still superior, Tencent PC Manager becomes a new valid free alternative to try as computer antivirus, reliable and very powerful.
The download of the Tencent PC Manager installer can be done from the official website or from Softpedia.
Google Chrome browser may block the download by detecting it as malicious, but since it is a false positive, to download it anyway you need to disable the malware protection filter in the advanced settings.
As usual, before installation, you need to uninstall or disable the antivirus you were using.
Whether or not to trust Chinese programs remains a debated topic not only here but in all the technology sites of the world.
I personally believe it can be trusted when it comes to software developed by companies so rich that they have every interest in expanding beyond national borders (On my PC there is the Chinese antivirus Quihoo 360).
However, I do not blame those who avoid them without even trying, given the serious problems of privacy and freedom of the population in China.
