Top 5 free Anti-Virus Software

September 19th, 2008 | by admin |

Your PC is often infected with Virus. Don’t worry because there are alot of free edition of well-known anti-virus software for home and personal use. Look top 5 free anti-virus packages.

Avast:

Avast 4 is a complete ICSA certified and Secure Computing Magazine awarded antivirus software for home noncommercial use. Avast includes the following components: On Demand Scanner–with skinnable simple interface–just select what do you want to scan in which way and press the Play button; On Access Scanner–special providers to protect the most of available e-mail clients; Instant Messaging–ICQ, Miranda; Network traffic–intrusion detection–lightweight firewall; P2P protection for Kazaa, BitTorrent; Web shield–monitors and filter all HTTP traffic; NNTP Scanner–scans all Usenet Newsgroup traffic and all operations with files on PC; Boot Time Scanner–scans disks in the same way and in the same time as Windows CHKDSK does.

AVG Anti-Virus:

AVG Free Edition is the well-known antivirus protection tool. AVG Free is available free of charge to home users for the life of the product. Rapid virus database updates are available for the lifetime of the product, thereby providing the high level of detection capability that millions of users around the world trust to protect their computers. AVG Free is easy to use and will not slow your system down (low system resource requirements). Highlights include automatic update functionality, the AVG Resident Shield, which provides real-time protection as files are opened and programs are run, free Virus Database Updates for the lifetime of the product, and AVG Virus Vault for safe handling of infected files.

Avira AntiVir:

Avira AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic -FREE is a reliable free antivirus solution, that constantly and rapidly scans your computer for malicious programs (such as viruses, Trojans, backdoor programs, hoaxes, worms, dialers etc.), monitoring every action executed by the user or by the operating system and being able to react promptly when a malicious program is detected. Actions include repair, delete, block, rename and quarantine programs or files. Version 7.00.04.15 adds Vista Support, new Rootkit detection and removal.

AOL Active Virus Shield:

Protect your PC from both known and unknown virus attacks, spyware, Trojan horses and malware with AOL’s free anti-virus software, Active Virus Shield. This comprehensive anti-virus software installs quickly, works fast, always stays on and updates automatically every hour. Plus, it takes traditional virus scanning methods and combines them with advanced technology to help detect and protect against malicious programs that can infect your PC and important files before they are infected.

BitDefender 8.0 :

Benefiting from previous experience, the new BitDefender Free Edition was designed with a centralized management console, which allows protection options configuration for all BitDefender modules. It is enough to open the management console in order to have access to all modules: Virus Scan, Scheduler, Live! Update, Quarantine, Reports. On demand scanning – Powerful scan engines ensure detection and removal of all viruses in the wild every time you need it. You can schedule the checking of your system at any time, periodically, without any other intervention. With just a right click you can check your files and folders. Automatic and manual update are available. Intelligent update of antivirus protection, without your intervention. The update can be done from the network over the Internet, directly or through a Proxy Server. There are over 90,000 Virus Definitions.