
The Settings dialog is also very short on functionality.

Tencent PC Manager does allow you to specify which system directories you wish to scan (Image Credit: Tencent) (Image credit: Image Credit: Tencent) PC Manager scored well here, too, correctly protecting its files, processes and Registry keys from any form of interference, and ensuring our protection was never compromised. This all appears to be very normal.įor our final setup tests, we use various techniques to try and disable an antivirus, simulating the kind of tricks malware might employ to shut it down. They grabbed a little more than 1GB of hard drive space, and added three background processes to our PC, none of which hogged any significant resources. Whatever the reason for our issues, there were no obvious signs of problems with PC Manager's installed files, which were much like many other antivirus apps. We've not had an antivirus package cause repeated blue-screen crashes in years, though, so we must count this instability as a potential concern about PC Manager. We installed PC Manager on a backup system, and this time stayed crash-free, leaving us unclear about the cause of the issue. Uninstalling PC Manager fixed the problem, fortunately.

This continued to happen, apparently randomly, or whenever we launched a PC Manager scan. Our good mood quickly failed when our review system suffered a blue-screen crash, due to an 'exception in the Registry filter driver'. Tencent PC Manager was poorly translated from Chinese and it shows (Image Credit: Tencent) (Image credit: Image Credit: Tencent)
