Expert Cylance Review 2019

In a nutshell: Cylance Smart Antivirus is a lightweight antivirus solution from Cylance Inc and claims to provide several outstanding features including 'artificial intelligence engine' to identify threats & optimize your device performance.
This AI-based security vendor was recently acquired by Blackberry for $1.4 billion, bringing the power of enterprise virus scanning to the personal computing market.
The antivirus provides state-of-the-art security for all PC users while exploiting AI and machine learning technology to detect and block access to any malware.

Affordability

It offers three packages that allow all customers to purchase a two-year subscription with a substantial discount and a 30-day financial guarantee.

The Personal Plan secures the device at a cost of $20 per year while the subscription for 2 years will only cost $39.

To protect more than a dozen computers, the best option is the Family Plan as the subscription is $ 99 with a discount equivalent to the same amount.

 

Product Reliability

Cylance follows a new tactic to deal with viruses and malware. Most antivirus solutions are reactive and are focused on removing viruses from the system. While this revolutionary antivirus software uses powerful artificial intelligence and machine learning to detect and quarantine malware before it reaches your computer.

Your computer is protected against malicious files as Cylance offers highly effective software. Cylance still managed to score well in lab tests although it is not the top performer. Cylance has been given 89% ratings by PCMag for threat detection.

Unlike its competitors, Cylance still lacks a list of comprehensive features. Features like firewall, pop-up blocker, spam blocker or parental control are not included in their antivirus software.

 

Product Features

Cylance uses artificial intelligence to protect against viruses, ransomware and other malware, it doesn’t use IP address or URL to identify a virus, which can always be hampered.

Instead, Cylance detects viruses based on the file type. This can prove effective because it can recognize even the latest malware files without having to update its virus database definitions like any other antivirus solutions in the list.

However, there’s a catch to this approach, it could leave the systems vulnerable to phishing attacks and bate people to provide personal information through fraudulent websites.

 

Customer Support

Cylance’s site provides highly tailored customer support with tutorials, FAQs and a guide for beginners and manual users.

The antivirus has a YouTube channel whose usefulness should never be discussed as the page itself contains videos for any user who is willing to be helped in a visual way.

The company is located in Irvine California and customers can easily enter into account with its support services through live chat, email, and phone or on social networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter

Antivirus Plus 2018 Total Security 2018 Family Pack 2018
Price per year $24.99 $34.99 $59.99
Devices 3 5 20
License duration 1 year 1 year 1 year
Anti-spam
Anti-spyware
Anti-adware
Anti-malware
Real-time protection
Email protection
Firewall
Wi-Fi protection
Parental control
Identity protection
Supports Mac

Harold B. Gruber | Research specialist

I had been using McAfee Anti-Virus for nearly a year since I bought the computer new. Until recently everything seemed to be fine when all of a sudden McAfee started marking all my e-mails as SPAM and moving them to the Spam folder. Does not inspire me to renew my subscription with McAfee.

Pros
  • Zero impact on performance
  • Accurate spam filter
  • Powerful firewall
Cons
  • Slow full system scan
  • No network scanner
Bottom Line
Cloud-based protection for PC computers.
Compatibility
Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, MAC OS x
Top 5
1
9.9
2
9.8
3
9.7
4
9.7
5
9.4

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