Returnil Virtual System 2.0: Review

What Returnil offers that other anti-malware products don’t is the ability to fully recover from a harmful attack against your computer. Even if your computer is equipped with an active antivirus program, paired with a firewall, not everything can be detected and your computer can still be under attack. Enter Returnil. With its effective system protection, you can simply undo harmful activity to your computer simply by rebooting. On top of that, you can store files onto its virtual drive. This is particularly important for home offices and small businesses, but how effective is it?

On my aging 2003 laptop, installation was a breeze. It walks you through set-up through relative ease. The only customization you really need to do is decide how much space you want to put aside for your virtual drive. Why a virtual drive? Because of how the program works, whenever you turn the computer off or do a reboot, any new documents, files or programs that you save to the computer will otherwise vanish. By storing files you want to keep in the virtual drive, these files will not be lost during a reboot.

There are not a lot of files or anything overly complicated to be installed, so having new software available in just minutes is something that is encouraging. That's how quickly you can get to protect your computer.

Returnil’s program doesn’t suffer from an incredibly long list of options, preferences or anything else that can cause clutter with other anti-malware programs. It is actually very simple. You can activate or deactivate system protection, mount and dismount the virtual drive, and other options simply with just a click of a button. It may not seem like that big of a deal, but when there’s a very tiny learning curve, that makes it especially easy for home offices and small businesses that don’t want to spend a lot of time learning and fiddling around with settings and preferences to make sure the program works the way they want it to. It is essentially turn on and go.