The Returnil Virtual System 2008 Personal Edition is designed to introduce the benefits of integrating Instant System Recovery (ISR) within the user’s computer security strategy and provides both a demonstration platform for Returnil’s solutions and a means for Returnil to realize its commitment to provide everyone access to this essential type of curative technology.

Research shows that at best your anti-virus product is only capable of detecting an average 30% to 50% of all malicious content at any given time. Detection being the first step, only a fraction of the malware detected are able to be disinfected without any complications. Standalone, the traditional security suites are thus not able to provide you adequate protection even with all updates and upgrades of the software applied. The main underlying reason for this is that the technology used to produce malware has evolved much faster then the technology used by the security industry to combat it. Despite the high proliferation of total security suites the malware "industry" continues to flourish, the problem of security in the age of the Internet continues to grow.

Returnil virtualization technology clones a computer’s System Partition and boots the PC into this system rather than native Windows, allowing users to run your applications in a completely isolated environment.
Hence the session and all activity, malicious or otherwise, will happen in the virtual environment, not in the real PC environment. If the PC is attacked or gets infected, all you need to do is to simply reboot the PC
to erase all changes. After reboot, the system will be restored to its original state, as if nothing ever happened.

New in the Personal Edition:
- File Protection - This new feature will allow the user to selectively protect files and folders on alternate partitions. Further, the user can also specify the entire partition or drive (extra internal drive, USB drives, IEEE drives, etc).
- Anti-Execute (New tool) - This new plug-in is not designed or intended to be a full featured HIPS (Host Intrusion Prevention System). That said however, the feature will allow added white/black list control over most executable and loaded drivers.
- Real System Autoruns (New tool) - The new plug-in will allow an experienced user to view and edit auto-run entries in their registry while using the RVS System Protection and Session Lock feature.
- Real System Registry Editor (New tool) - This is a new feature available from within the Real System Autoruns plug-in and allows the computer administrator to make changes to the computer's registry while using the RVS System Protection and Session Lock feature.
- Custom Virtual Partition installation path - New in v2,01 is support for installing the RVS Virtual Partition on alternate partitions or drives
- Virtual Partition drive designation change support - RVS now supports changing the Virtual Partition drive letter from within the Preferences menu without requiring a reinstall of the VP through the repair feature.
- Disk Cache privacy wipe - the 2.01 series now supports cleaning of the disk cache at shutdown of your computer.
- Right click Tray Icon and Toolbar control - This is a refinement to allow the user to activate or deactivate the Tray Icon and/or Toolbar through its right click menu.
- Vista hibernation support - the 2.01 series now properly supports hibernation mode in Windows Vista.

Limitations: Free for home use only. Returnil Virtual Premium Edition is available for business.