Some oddball fluke? We rebooted, tried again, reinstalled and tried again, with the same results. We tried running full system scans, but found Malware Fighter Pro kept crashing in the same folder tree. But if a Smart Scan was running, IObit simply switched to the Smart Scan window and left us waiting to get the results. If you need to check a file from Explorer, for instance, you can normally right click it, select Scan with IObit and get a report immediately. It wasn't possible to run scans in parallel. Scanning speeds are below average, not least because the package can spend up to a minute on an 'initialize database' step before it even starts to do anything else.
IObit's Smart Scan is the standard way to check your computer, and works its way through system areas, currently active processes, the Registry and key files. Whether any malware would bother to do this is open to question - and if malicious code is able to run on your system then you're in big trouble, anyway - but this is still a vulnerability we don't usually see elsewhere. Any process with administrator rights can freely delete its core service, for instance. It's improved a little, but still has its weaknesses. In previous reviews we've found that Malware Fighter's processes to be poorly protected, and could be disabled by malware using little more than a basic batch file. If anything, enabling remote access could be far more complicated.) (And no, we saw not the tiniest reason why 'remote activation' would make this easier. This kicked off another setup process as Malware Fighter downloaded and installed the Bitdefender engine, but the package didn't require any further intervention, and we were able to leave it to finish the job. We activated the full version using the license code from the email. Setup was straightforward, and the installer equipped our test system with a copy of Malware Fighter Free within a very few seconds.
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