Seventh Knight PC Security Reviews

*DISCLAIMER - I never received this for free, and I definitely won't be getting a t-shirt! So I decided that as I was upgrading to a new SSD, and a clean Windows installation, I wanted to try this software out as an alternative to the blunt hammer that antivirus software has increasingly become. I couple this with Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, just for an extra layer of protection, as I do install and uninstall a lot of different software. So far, it's been 100% rock solid, with only a couple of irritations that are quite easily dealt with; * Some software, especially Nvidia drivers, don't play nice with SKPC and requires to be turned off before reinstalling. * It can be frustrating to accidentally block something that is called via rundll.exe, as SKPC will block EVERYTHING that uses it - and as I couldn't find a way to unblock it (the usual methods didn't seem to work), on the advice of the tuys at SK, I had to remove SKPC, reboot, and reinstall. Currently, I have not tried the Gaming Accelerator, as my current system has no need for extra FPS. I purchased this solely for the security system. Judging by other reviews, I would suggest if you have a mid-range PC, you will very likely benefit from it. Negatives? None really, I think I would prefer a nicer, more professional looking UI, the huge black and orange window does the software itself an injustice. I would much prefer a smaller, cleaner interface without the orange. It is professional software... make it look like it! That's about it. I personally recommend allowing SKPC to act as UAC, this just stops extra clicks and so far is working very well. Recommended for those who start with a fresh Windows installation, are comfortable with basic Windows file systems, and understand this is not an active scanner, but a passive guardian.

Shouldn't my one time purchase be valid for a lifetime? Tried to install years later and been met with the old, 'buy a new product key', please help! Definitely would not recommend this software.

I have a HP Envy with an Intel i5 @ 1.7-2.5ghz with 8gb of Ram... It helped me be able to get around 30fps in a game like Haydee whereas before I was only able to get around 15-20... but my decision to get this product had less to do with gaming as my laptop is relatively new and more to do with the fact that it gave me control over what applications could run in the background and what downloads could take place. I think of this as more of a general tool for PC users who wish to have more control over what their computers do, as I'm sure you know that this utilizes this thing called 'white listing', essentially making your computer a VIP club where only certain members can join. There's obviously more to it, but I would encourage anyone looking into this product to first do research and maybe along the way educate yourself on how computers work. It's only then that this software will seem less scary. It's worked for me on some levels, and this is not a one size fits all as apparently results WILL vary from pc to pc... but it did what was advertised for me and allowed me to have more control over my computer.

I purchased this Product because I was sick of the other anti-virus suites hogging all the resource on my pc (Trend Micro, Norton). The bonus of the game accelerator software encouraged me to get it. [u][h1]Pro:[/h1][/u] I've been using this for 5 weeks now. So far this works well, At the end of every week I run two virus scans with Malwarebytes and malicious software removal tool just to verify that nothing made it past. It always reports clean. The product basically acts as a sentry, if something foreign tries to execute on your system, the software will ask if you want to allow it. You can even sandbox the application your installing by selecting an option called 'limited access' to install it temporaily in a secure sandbox. This is a fantastic option in case your unsure about the application your installing. Viruses can't get out of a sandbox. You can add a password to the security prompt that appears when installing an application for added security. I found this especially useful because my less tech savy spouse would blindly click yes to popups on the pc with out reading first. And the final Pro is the Lifetime Licence, enough said. [u][h1]Neutral:[/h1][/u] [b]PC Security:[/b] When I first installed it, I did have a bit of an issue with the software always prompting me to activate whenever I restarted my pc. But Seventh Knight have a great customer support team and were very helpful in getting the software updated and working properly. There is an option in the advanced menu ("Assign Install rights") that you can turn on that will cause the software to ignore security protocols and allow the next program to be installed. Once installed the security protocols will turn back on. This can potentially be dangerous. Even though the software does explain what it will do with a yes/no prompt, I think Seventh Knight should also explain the potential danger inherent in turning on this option. [b]The Gaming Accelerator:[/b] will analyse your system and then prompt you to restart you PC. It will then boot up with windows running in a very trimmed down state (no bulk) improving your system resources. You should be aware that the PC security software will also get turned off by the accelerator. No problem though just turn it back on and your safe again. [u][h1]Neg:[/h1][/u] If you use Tor Browser, it's completely incompatible and will not run unless you turn the PC Security off. [b]Note:[/b] Malwarebytes will report a false positive [i]Broken.OpenCommand[/i] on the PC Security App. Just ignore it, otherwise you'll cripple the security software. Overall I'm happy with the purchase update Dec5: Had my first maleware attack today and PC Security did it's Job perfectly.

This software was nice back when it worked but nowadays its abandoned ever since they went on to work on bigger projects so if you buy a key here your product will not activate. This product should either A be supported still or B removed from the store but by leaving it lingering here and not even being able to activate it is just disgusting.

This software has become completely useless. It will "expire" without notifying you and then refuse your activation key which is supposed to be permanent. Do not purchase anything from this company as you can't trust that they will support it. Now I have to find and purchase something to replace it.

Software does what it says and I am satisfied with it and like how the PC security works, however I had issues with it upon first install and would crash. See my post in discussion area on what I did to get it to install with no issues. Short version followed install instruction with system in Safe Mode with networking have it run as admin.

When you are allowed to run the software it does help, for about 2 weeks, then it tries to expire and refuses to accept the cd key. Would not recommend at full price, 50% off the $35 or better. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update: as it is clear the dev is now bribing false reviews rather than fix the product I gave it another try, still complete trash product as far as reliability, Please just save you self the money and headache and get Razer Cortex for free, it at least works reliably

First of all let me state that I was offered neither a free copy of this software or any other incentives to purchase said software. Honestly I was interested in what the company claimed to offer, and read through Alot of the discussions about it. I did my homework and sold myself on the product, and it was a hard sell to be honest as the $60 asking price was alot more than I was looking to spend at the time I was browsing new releases. So Is it worth it? Does it work? In a nutshell yes, and hence the thumbs up Im giving it. But there are some heads up, disclaimers, caveats, what have you with those answers. As its a 2 for 1 package deal let me try to cover them both individualy and jointly. Jointly, the programs are a very easy install. Just like anything else here on steam, Just down load and run, and follow the promts. This worked really well for me until I got to the part where I had to restart to complete the installation. Wouldn't you know it there was a Windows Update hiding in the background, that decided to install itself in the middle of the restart. Had me sweatting nails to be sure. So I highly recomend restarting your computer before you even attempt to install the programs to make sure the same thing doesnt happen to you. When the computer did finally restart I noticed right away that it was acting differently. It took an extra 3-5 seconds after making it to the desktop before it threw an error and then loaded up the 7th Knight interface. I emailed them about the error code i was receiving and have yet to hear back from them. To be fair I emailed them late on Friday night, and now its the weekend, so Maybe by Monday Ill hear back from them. I am only slightly dissapointed that i didnt hear back sooner after all the hype I read about customer service and helpfulness. Anyway closing the error window made it go away and I have yet to discern any actual problems caused by what ever the error message was complaining about. Also as I pointed out earlier Windows Update jumped in the middle of things and for all I know the update itself, or the bad timing of it caused the error in question. Individualy now, first the "anti-virus" program. Truthfully it is not antivirus program at all. It is both better in some ways and all together unrelated to anything resembling an antivirus program. It works by not allowing any program to run on your computer without you explicitily allowing said program to run (All the programs you have installed before installing this are considered safe by the program unless you specificaly tell it otherwise, and all other programs that attempt to run after installation that were not initially cleared promt the program to ask You to decide if its safe to run them..) This will keep you safe from viruses as long as You pay attention to what you are doing on your computer. Opening an email and all of a sudden a new program wants to run? Hello Virus. This will not protect you at all if you are installing programs you think are safe, but in truth are not. Downloading and using a Mod with a self installing exec that actually contains some kind of hidden nastiness. You give it permission to run, and this does nothing to save you from said nasty surprise. On to the Game Accelerator, yes it works too! I easily picked up 5-10 FPS on FO4 depending on where I was in the game, and I was also able to set the speed to max on Rimworld and scroll the screen without stuttering / blurring on a ludicrous map size. That said I opened up Task Master and still saw a couple of things I usually manually end process on when Im going to be hard core gaming and was surprised to see 7th Knight had not disabled them. Things like Bonjor service, Mobile Device Service, etc. Also for whatever reason, gaming mode does not turn off Windows Defender on Windows 10 but DOES turn off 7th Knight Security ??? So when I use it, I of course pull up Defender, turn it off temporarily and turn 7th Knight Security back on. Turning off Defender while your gaming is a garunteed boost in performace, and 7th Knight should have zero impact on your gaming as it doesnt do ANYTHING unless an unauthorized program tries to run. Final verdict, I feel the program(s) still needs some adjustments to make it a bit more reliable and Id strongly recomend a users / tip guide be included with the download and on their website. Whole lot of typing there, hope its useful to anyone on the fence.

[b] Hello everyone, this is my review for Seventh Knight PC Security + Gaming Accelerator 2[/b] [h1] Disclaimer [/h1] [i] First of all, I need to state that I'm not doing this review for the t-shirt they offer for everyone that buys and reviews this product honestly, I'm doing this because this product is largely misderstood(if not trolled) by a lot of people and I think they need to understand what does this do properly.[/i] I'm going to divide this review in two sections, one section for PC Security and the other for Gaming accelerator 2 for clarity. [h1] PC Security [/h1] [b] First of all, this software IS NOT or DOES NOT INCLUDE ANTIVIRUS AND IT NEVER WILL. IT CANNOT CLEAN AN ALREADY INFECTED SYSTEM AT ALL. HOW IT WORKS IS QUITE DIFFERENT FROM THAT. GET OVER IT. [/b] Now that we got that out of the way, I can explain what does this software do. Think of a smartphone. Something that runs IOS or Android. Remember how you use it. You can install applications, take pictures, add contacts, browse the internet, yet you almost never get infected. Your data almost never falls into wrong hands. You are usually totally safe. And they achieve this by the sandbox system they utilize. An application you run cannot run outside that little sandbox, it is given its own private playroom, and you can choose, to some extent, which toys(contacts, camera, loaction and stuff) are in that sandbox, or how big it is. Now think about Windows, there is no sandbox. No playrooms for the apps. The whole house is available to the app for it to run amok. It can even burn the whole house down or just steal the stuff in the house and go make money off of it. Now, imagine you hired a guard. It constantly patrols the house and inspect everything in the house, including the apps themselves to find such apps that can harm the house. That's how an antivirus works. Now imagine you bought high security doors which can't be lockpicked, destroyed or simply otherwise opened without a key. They completely confine the the place an app runs in, essentially making it run in a sandbox. You have all the keys and if you wish, you can open some(or all) the doors, in addition to deciding what is in the playroom(sandbox). That is PC Security. What does it do is to confine the apps into such spaces so that they never can do anything, I repeat, ANYTHING without your permission. At the time you install it, it scans your software, so it can see what is on the system. Then it assumes whatever it found to be trustworthy. After that, every new executable you launch opens a pop up about how you should launch them. You can launch them in a small sandbox mode where they can't access pretty much anything, in a bigger sandbox mode where they have limited access to your contacts and settings. If you want to install new software though, you'll need to temporarily turn it off from the promt window it opened, allowing you to open all the doors for a while(don't do this unless you absolutely trust the software you're going to install). You can also prevent it from running at all. It gives you the sandbox feature similar to the ones being used in IOS and Android, with the option to actually stop the sandbox for a while necessary for things like installations. Nothing can run on the Windows without your consent and nothing on your computer can reach your sensitive data without your consent. Ever. On the other hand though I must add that in IOS or Android, you never get the keys to the sandbox rooms, unless you root(Android) or jailbreak(iPhone) your phone. This is, actually a security improvement because it prevents the user from installing apps from outside of trusted sources. Be careful with which application you're going to use, especially when it requires to be outside of sandbox mode to run properly because if you, yourself let a malicious app out of its sandbox, it's going to harm your computer anyway as you have defeated the purpose of the application itself. [h1] Gaming Accelerator 2[/h1] Once again, I'll have to start with a disclaimer, so here it is. [b] This is NOT A SYSTEM OPTIMIZER. IT DOESN'T MODIFY ANY SYSTEM FILES, REGISTRY SETTINGS OR ANYTHING ELSE ON ANY WAY. IT WILL NOT MESS YOUR COMPUTER UP JUST TO FAIL TRYING TO ACCELERATE YOUR GAMES. THIS SOFTWARE'S PERFORMANCE DEPENDS ON YOUR COMPUTER'S HARDWARE AND HOW BLOATED IT IS. IT MAY NOT HAVE MUCH OF AN EFFECT ON COMPUTERS WITH HIGH PERFORMANCE HARDWARE AND MINIMAL BLOATWARE, BUT IN THE OPPOSITE SITUATIONS, IT CAN WORK A LOT BETTER.[/b] Well this software is a weird one. And by weird I mean really weird. It claims to accelerate games but doesn't seem to do anything to the PC at first glance. But it actually does, you just have to turn it on, and restart your pc with the prompt that appears.Then when Windows boots again, GA2 will block the stuff that start with Windows, including Windows's own software. That way it prevents your resources from being used by various machine-hogging applications, thus, giving you a much smoother gaming experience. It, albeit usually small, also can boost your fps, depending on your rig and what it blocks but this is not the point of the application. The strength of this application is getting rid of(or at least greatly reducing) all that hiccups and stutters that annoy you so much. Even if fps is as low as 20(in GTA V). To do this, it uses the same basic code PC Security uses to confine applications into sandboxes(remember that it can actually prevent apps from launching at all), but instead of sandboxing them, it disables them entirely. And the result is, bloatwares and unnecessary Windows components(unnecessary for gaming, that is) don't launch. Much smoother gaming experience. Also, it actually has two modes, one that kills some of these unnecessary things while still giving you some Windows funtionality, and the other, called Max Boost, kills that functionality as well to provide even faster and smoother game experience so if normal gaming mode is not enough for you, you can try to maximize your performance with this. To end the gaming mode, you simply need to restart your computer again and it willl turn on as it normally does. [h1] To wrap it up:[/h1] The PC Security software brings the functionality of a sandboxed environment we know in smartphones to keep your pc secure and the Gaming Accelerator 2 uses this sandbox functionality to keep windows and bloatware out of your gaming experience by disabling them, making your game look and feel much smoother, and a little bit faster. In my opinion, it's well worth the money you spend for it, maybe even more. But since PC Security eventually places everything in YOUR hands, if you make a mistake, and insist on it despite everything PC Security does to keep it away, you'll surely get infected. But if you know what you're doing, this is the PERFECT tool to keep your computer secure. Also the restarting requirement to enable/disable Gaming Mode might be a little pain. But it's still well worth it. [h1] Final Notes: [/h1] [olist] [*]Due to how Steam DRM works, this product does NOT use Steam DRM, and the only thing you get for buying it is the installer and an automatically generated, fully working, activation key that never expires. The only time steam can record about it is when you run the installer. I left the installer open for a little while to be able to even write a review, even though I'm using it for a much longer period of time. [*] As I said in the disclaimer, a lot of people misunderstands this product, and some even just go troll it or be ignorant. To these people, I have only one thing to say: Give it a shot, you probably won't regret it. [*] They are giving out free trials to try and overcome these issues so you can just download it, add the developer as a friend [url=http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198320856523/](click here)[/url] to get a FREE trial code and see how it works yourself.