Autonomic computing technology helps organizations manage and improve their IT operations with minimal human intervention. Self-managing technologies are delivering systems that are more resilient, responsive, efficient, and secure. By leveraging self-managing technology in your products, you can differentiate yourself by bringing immediate value to your customers — helping reduce the time to solve problems, deploy solutions more quickly, and optimize critical performance.

Just as your nervous system heals a cut on your hand without you thinking about it, PC Vive self-heals the operating system of your computer to a known-good state, on every reboot, in less than 8 seconds.

Self-healing provides the following benefits:

• increased availability
• increased stability
• elimination of system degradation
• reduced support costs
• increased reliability
• reduced likelihood of identity theft
• increased privacy
• peace of minds

PC Vive protects a computer in a known-good state by eliminating any changes to that system on every reboot.  This allows PC Vive to protect your system from spyware and viruses in addition to normal system degradation.  Spyware is a serious concern and can be handled by PC Vive.

Here are 10 symptoms that most like indicate that some form of spyware exists on your system:

1. Slow Computer Performance
2. System Instability
3. New Toolbars, Menus or Buttons
4. New Shortcuts on your Desktop or system tray
5. Hijacked Homepage
6. Hijacked Search results
7. New “page cannot be displayed” landing page
8. Increased pop-ups
9. Unusual number of hyperlinks
10. Ending up on unknown websites

PC Vive does not remove existing spyware, viruses or other system abuses.  However, once your computer is in a clean, known-good state, PC Vive can keep it that way.  For more information on getting your computer clean in preparation for PC Vive, please visit our forums or tutorial section.