Monitor your PC for suspicious activity
ThreatFire, previously know as CyberHawk, is a pre-emptive anti-spyware monitoring tool that aims to protects you from malware before it gets anywhere near your system.
It does this by monitoring the behaviour of your PC in real time to check for strange or irregular behaviour.
This method supposedly offers faster protection as you don't need to wait for an anti-virus signature file to be updated as with conventional antivirus programs.
However, ThreatFire can interpret any kind of new behaviour on your PC as a threat and it can be rather annoying to get warnings and prompts every time you install a new piece of software.
However, you can configure it to "trust" certain activity so you can minimise annoying messages in this way.
Obviously, ThreatFire monitors your PC in real time, but you can also configure it to run on demand although it seems there's no way of knowing the progress of these scans.
Note that because this program is designed to protect your PC, it can be hard to fully close it down. Even when you've closed the window, it will run in your taskbar and even closing it from there is not clear.
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User reviews about ThreatFire
by Anonymous
Feature Regression & New UI.
MorePrior versions were great. In the past I always gave a great rating.
Now, the av scanner has been removed and replaced with a tab advertising PCTools AV and that you should download it. Even in the paid version. So there is no incentive in purchasing.
They added another tab to the UI that says "Did you know?" and explains what TF is and what it does. There is no option to hide the tab.
Why put getting started tips into the UI? Its not needed since there is a tutorial, getting started links in the tray icon and help menu. Not too mention upon install it opens a web page with the same info.
They added a PCTools AV program in your face. What if I dont want to install it? Why have a tab in UI for it?
If you paid for a pro version you wasted your money.
Pros:
Detects 0 day threats and has a great detection rate using behavior analysis.
Low system resources and good performance
Cons:
Removed AV scanner
Added 'Did you know' tab in the program interface
Added advertisement to download PCTools Antivirus
No difference between free or paid version
by Anonymous
Great Software to add to your computer.
MoreAs you are all well aware you should have at least 2 security software and this one is a great addition. I had Internet Security and Spyware Terminator but ST was just pretty horrible. It was really annoying because of frequent pop-ups and i uninstalled it and got this.
This software protects against the stuff that most other security software don't pick up. So i recommend it as an additional software.
by Anonymous
Excellent additional protection.
MoreThis is a very good security app have. I do not recommend it being yur only app though. It is a good addition to a real antivirus and antispyware app for it uses behavior-based detection as apposed to using only a database. This will definetly protect you from most zero day attacks. I have tested it with fake trojans and it has popped up with warning about the files and give options to quarantine or delete. It has 5 different levels of protection to choose from. It starts off at level 3 which is the recommended level for most users. I normally forget I have it running most of the time. Every once in a while it will popup with a moderate warning about a file that is running. Normally this happens when I install a program and it tries to gain internet access. This doesn't happen often as those kind of detections are referred to as PUAs or Potentially Unwanted Applications. Overall, a great addition to a security setup.
Pros:
-behavior-based detection
-normally not intrusive at recommended protection level
-an excellent addition
-starts up relatively quickly
Cons:
-no scan bars of any sort when performing a scan