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sAntivirus Removal Guide

Need to remove SAntivirus? Follow these steps for a hassle-free uninstallation process. Learn how to remove SAntivirus efficiently.

Review: Avast Antivirus vs. CCleaner

Two popular tune-up utilities available on the market today are Avast Antivirus and CCleaner Professional Plus. While there are plenty of reasons to compare Avast to Ccleaner, in the final analysis, iolo System Mechanic® is capable of providing superior solutions for all. Below is an Avast Antivirus review, along with a closer look at CCleaner. When comparing both to iolo System Mechanic, they come up short in a few ways.

Protect Yourself from Invasive Digital Fingerprinting

Online advertisers have in recent years pivoted from tracking cookies to a much more sophisticated—and largely invisible—method of data mining that acquires highly detailed information about your computer and the ways you use it to determine how best to sell to you. This significantly more invasive form of digital profiling is known as fingerprinting. Far from just the innocuous placement of targeted ads in your web browser, fingerprinting can be used to determine facts about you ranging from how many children you have in college, to which make and model of vehicles you and your family drive, to where and when you are likely to be away on vacation.

Privacy Guardian Online Privacy Protection

What you do online isn’t private. Without Privacy Guardian, companies and individuals can acquire enormous amounts of very specific information about you—your digital fingerprint—based on what you do on the internet, and much of this data can be used against you in various ways.

Phoenix 360: A One-Two Punch for Fighting Modern Malware

It is more essential than ever nowadays to protect your PC with real-time AV software that can block new and existing malware threats. Yet no AV engine, no matter how effective in general, is perfect.

Phoenix 360 Quick Start Guide

Phoenix 360 is the ultimate package to optimize speed, remove malware, enhance online privacy, secure passwords and simplify login across devices.

System Mechanic Wins PC Mag Editors’ Choice Award

System Mechanic® from iolo has won the PC Magazine Editors’ Choice Award for best Windows® utility. This is the eighth such award the editors at PC Magazine have bestowed upon System Mechanic, writing, “This excellent tune-up utility improves your PC’s performance by defragging the hard drive, deleting junk files, tweaking CPU and RAM usage in real time, and executing other computer-enhancing tasks. The latest version improves several longtime features, while adding a revamped, attractive interface.”

Unlock the Full Potential of System Mechanic

One of System Mechanic’s most sophisticated and industry-respected features is something customers often overlook—the Help Files. The Help Files is a clearly written guide that is always right at your fingertips.

System Mechanic©: Open Source License

iolo technologies, LLC (“iolo”) licenses its software, whether free, trial or paid versions (“iolo Software”). iolo Software may contain open source code (“Open Source”). The rights or obligations you may have under the terms of the Open Source licenses are not changed by your acceptance of the terms of the EULA with iolo.

Online Safety: How To Protect Your Computer

Knowing how to protect your computer is more important than ever. Keep your info safe and discover the best tips for shielding your PC from threats.

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What is iolo's Whole Home License?

The Whole Home License® is iolo’s licensing policy that allows you to install and keep your software running on all of your compatible devices within the same home. Previously, users were allowed to install and license their iolo software simultaneously on a maximum of three PCs. Under the Whole Home License, a single activation key allows you to use your iolo software on all of your PCs, other than any PCs you use for business purposes. What you need to know about Whole Home Licensing

  • You, your spouse, and your relatives living within the same household may use the same license on any number of PCs that you own which are not used for business.
  • For full legal terms and conditions, see https://www.iolo.com/company/legal/eula/

To install your iolo product on additional PCs:

  1. On the additional computer, download the latest version of your iolo product. Choose from the list of downloads offered here.
  2. Follow the steps in the installation wizard, and enter the same Activation Key that you used to install on your original computer.

You can view the Activation Key on the original computer from within System Mechanic > red menu bar > key icon > Activation Key.