Avira AntiVir PE Classic 7.00Avira GmbHOverall rating: 5/5
Since our review of the previous version of Avira antivirus the good thing only got better. The installation was a breeze - quick and simple. The user interface is improved - it is now very intuitive and easy to use. The configuration screen presents all available options in a logical and uncluttered way, also allowing you to switch to the expert mode.
As with the previous version, the following features are available:Features:
Real time protection (computer viruses, worms, trojan horses but NOT spyware, adware)
On-demand scanner (still called "Luke Filewalker" - great to see they kept the name!)
Auto updater
Quarantine for the detected viruses and suspicious files
Scheduler
(To see the full-size screenshot simply click on the thumbnail image)
Main window
Expert mode configuration
Avira AntiVir utilizes strong heuristic scanning to protect against previously unknown macro and boot record viruses.
Virus detedcted!The POP3 e-mails scanner is not included in this version (it is available in the paid premium edition ). However, it is not as big a disadvantage as it may seem, as AntiVir will scan all opened e-mails and attachments.The detection rates are very good and the definition updates are frequent. According to Avira's site: "Usually, AntiVir offers updates for VDF files several times per day, ensuring that your AntiVir products always detect the latest electronic threats." The update speed was not lightning fast, but still adequate (premium edition provides its own dedicated update server).
Manual updateAvira AntiVir will not detect spyware or aggressive adware. Running the program together with some form of antispyware protection - or upgrading to the premium version - is, therefore, highly advisable.AntiVir periodically displays a pop-up window with some promotional info, which can be annoying - but it sure is a small price to pay for using this great antivirus software for free!
Pop-up information windowThe help system is extensive and includes downloadable manual and in-built help. The support is available through the online support forum at: http://forum.antivir.de/index.php.
Inbuilt helpLicense: Free for individual and private use on a single PC-workstation.Time limited: No.Free Support: Yes - forums.Platforms: Windows 98/ME, NT/2000/XP, Linux/Free BSD/Solaris.Pros:
good detection rates,
very easy to use,
good auto updater,
small footprint,
available for almost any platform.
Cons:
does not scan for spyware or adware,
no email scanner.
Our overall verdict: one of the best free antiviruses!Overall rating: 5/5
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
HouseCall
License Type: Free
Price: Free
Date Added: Mar 29, 2006
Operating Systems: Windows XP, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows 9.x, Windows Me
Author: Trend Micro
Price: Free
Date Added: Mar 29, 2006
Operating Systems: Windows XP, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows 9.x, Windows Me
Author: Trend Micro
Scan your hard drive for viruses and spyware with this free online tool. You simply choose the drives you want to scan and click on the "Scan" button. HouseCall can check more than 17,000 files in five minutes. Unlike Symantec's online tool, which only scans for viruses, HouseCall scans and fixes any infected files.
The following link will take you to Trend Micro's Web site, where the vendor encourages you to register before using the tool.
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Panda ActiveScan
License Type: Free
Price: Free
Date Added: Dec 23, 2005
Operating Systems: Windows XP, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows 9.x, Windows Me
Author: Panda Software
Price: Free
Date Added: Dec 23, 2005
Operating Systems: Windows XP, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows 9.x, Windows Me
Author: Panda Software
Do you suspect that your hard drive may have been infected by a virus or a Trojan horse? Are you getting conflicting reports from your antivirus software? Panda ActiveScan, a free online antivirus utility, will allow you to detect and eliminate any of over 90,000 viruses and Trojan horses. You can access this utility from a Web site, but you cannot download it onto your computer. It uses Microsoft ActiveX technology and works within your browser. ActiveScan is updated at least once a day, and can scan e-mail messages and compressed files.
ActiveScan looks for other malware, too: dialers, hacking tools, jokes, andh security risks. Its heuristic system detects even some unknown malware.
Note: ActiveScan is a service, not a download, so you won't be installing any programs. When you click the link, you'll be directed to Panda Software's site, where you can use the free service.
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008
avast! 4 Home Edition - FREE antivirus software - Download
avast! antivirus Home Edition is available free of charge for non-commercial home use ONLY. You can find more detailed information about the product here. If you are not a home user or if you use your computer for business purposes, avast! Home Edition is not licensed for such use. Instead, we offer a wide range of more suitable products which provide higher data security for commercial use, starting with avast! Professional Edition.
avast! antivirus Home Edition is FREE to use but it is necessary to register before the end of the initial 60 day trial period. To register, click here. Following registration you will receive by E-mail a license key valid for a period of 1 year. After you have downloaded and installed the program, the license key must be inserted into it within 60 days. The registration process is very easy, and it will take you only a couple of minutes.
All the setup packages are in the form of self-extracting executables and are digitally signed by ALWIL Software.
The English language version of avast! Home Edition antivirus can be downloaded from Download.com server below:
On Download.com you can read the Editor's review (full five stars) and independent user reviews of avast! Home Edition antivirus and you can even contribute your own reviews and opinions.
For language versions other than English please use the table below.
If you already have the latest or most recent version of avast! antivirus installed and wish to add a new language or just upgrade to the latest version, go to your computer's Control Panel -> Add/Remove programs -> avast! Antivirus -> Change/Remove -> Change. To upgrade, select the upgrade option when prompted by the program that upgrades are available (this is an automatic feature, unless your program is not configured for this option.)
avast! antivirus Home Edition is available free of charge for non-commercial home use ONLY. You can find more detailed information about the product here. If you are not a home user or if you use your computer for business purposes, avast! Home Edition is not licensed for such use. Instead, we offer a wide range of more suitable products which provide higher data security for commercial use, starting with avast! Professional Edition.
avast! antivirus Home Edition is FREE to use but it is necessary to register before the end of the initial 60 day trial period. To register, click here. Following registration you will receive by E-mail a license key valid for a period of 1 year. After you have downloaded and installed the program, the license key must be inserted into it within 60 days. The registration process is very easy, and it will take you only a couple of minutes.
All the setup packages are in the form of self-extracting executables and are digitally signed by ALWIL Software.
The English language version of avast! Home Edition antivirus can be downloaded from Download.com server below:
On Download.com you can read the Editor's review (full five stars) and independent user reviews of avast! Home Edition antivirus and you can even contribute your own reviews and opinions.
For language versions other than English please use the table below.
If you already have the latest or most recent version of avast! antivirus installed and wish to add a new language or just upgrade to the latest version, go to your computer's Control Panel -> Add/Remove programs -> avast! Antivirus -> Change/Remove -> Change. To upgrade, select the upgrade option when prompted by the program that upgrades are available (this is an automatic feature, unless your program is not configured for this option.)
avast! antivirus Home Edition is FREE to use but it is necessary to register before the end of the initial 60 day trial period. To register, click here. Following registration you will receive by E-mail a license key valid for a period of 1 year. After you have downloaded and installed the program, the license key must be inserted into it within 60 days. The registration process is very easy, and it will take you only a couple of minutes.
All the setup packages are in the form of self-extracting executables and are digitally signed by ALWIL Software.
The English language version of avast! Home Edition antivirus can be downloaded from Download.com server below:
On Download.com you can read the Editor's review (full five stars) and independent user reviews of avast! Home Edition antivirus and you can even contribute your own reviews and opinions.
For language versions other than English please use the table below.
If you already have the latest or most recent version of avast! antivirus installed and wish to add a new language or just upgrade to the latest version, go to your computer's Control Panel -> Add/Remove programs -> avast! Antivirus -> Change/Remove -> Change. To upgrade, select the upgrade option when prompted by the program that upgrades are available (this is an automatic feature, unless your program is not configured for this option.)
avast! antivirus Home Edition is available free of charge for non-commercial home use ONLY. You can find more detailed information about the product here. If you are not a home user or if you use your computer for business purposes, avast! Home Edition is not licensed for such use. Instead, we offer a wide range of more suitable products which provide higher data security for commercial use, starting with avast! Professional Edition.
avast! antivirus Home Edition is FREE to use but it is necessary to register before the end of the initial 60 day trial period. To register, click here. Following registration you will receive by E-mail a license key valid for a period of 1 year. After you have downloaded and installed the program, the license key must be inserted into it within 60 days. The registration process is very easy, and it will take you only a couple of minutes.
All the setup packages are in the form of self-extracting executables and are digitally signed by ALWIL Software.
The English language version of avast! Home Edition antivirus can be downloaded from Download.com server below:
On Download.com you can read the Editor's review (full five stars) and independent user reviews of avast! Home Edition antivirus and you can even contribute your own reviews and opinions.
For language versions other than English please use the table below.
If you already have the latest or most recent version of avast! antivirus installed and wish to add a new language or just upgrade to the latest version, go to your computer's Control Panel -> Add/Remove programs -> avast! Antivirus -> Change/Remove -> Change. To upgrade, select the upgrade option when prompted by the program that upgrades are available (this is an automatic feature, unless your program is not configured for this option.)
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Monday, June 23, 2008
Yes!! Virus Protection is - FREE!!!
Comodo AntiVirus 2.0 Beta, subsequent beta versions, and the final release version will each be available to businesses and home users at no charge.
Unlike some vendors that offer stripped down versions of commercial products for free, this is the full, completely functional version of the product. DOWNLOAD NOW!http://download.comodo.com/cav/download/CAVS_Setup_2.0.17.58_Beta.exe
Unlike some vendors that offer stripped down versions of commercial products for free, this is the full, completely functional version of the product. DOWNLOAD NOW!http://download.comodo.com/cav/download/CAVS_Setup_2.0.17.58_Beta.exe
Ad Nuker Popup Blocker & Spam Filter
Version: 4.6.0.0
Size: 2668 MBLicence: Freeware
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OS: Win 95/98/NT/2000
Usage Info:
Un/Install: Install and Uninstall
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Requirements: 16 MB Ram and 5 MB Drive SpaceFilter Junk E-Mail Spam, Ads, Pop Ups advertising, Viruses, Tojans & Spyware. Works with POP3 & IMAP. This FREE tool uses intelligent filtering of annoying Popup ads, e-mail spam, Spyware, Adware, Trojans, Viruses, Spyware Cookies. Unique features allow you to block all popups and spam or allow only the ones you want to receive. This easy-to-use popup stopper that gives you control of popup ads. Filtering spam mail with 5 different levels.
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DOWNLOAD NOW!http://www.adnuker.com/download/adnuke4600.exe
Size: 2668 MBLicence: Freeware
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OS: Win 95/98/NT/2000
Usage Info:
Un/Install: Install and Uninstall
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Requirements: 16 MB Ram and 5 MB Drive SpaceFilter Junk E-Mail Spam, Ads, Pop Ups advertising, Viruses, Tojans & Spyware. Works with POP3 & IMAP. This FREE tool uses intelligent filtering of annoying Popup ads, e-mail spam, Spyware, Adware, Trojans, Viruses, Spyware Cookies. Unique features allow you to block all popups and spam or allow only the ones you want to receive. This easy-to-use popup stopper that gives you control of popup ads. Filtering spam mail with 5 different levels.
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Avira survey: two thirds of the people interviewed dislike Web 2.0
Communication in the digital era: While every seventh person administer their contacts online, two out of three refuse to use Web 2.0Tettnang, 11 June 2008 – In the Web-2.0 era, information is searched for in Wikis, business contacts are made in Linkedin and friends communicate with StudiVZ. Web-2.0 tools will establish themselves as useful Internet applications over the long term. A current survey carried out by the security expert Avira, concludes that 14 percent of Internet users communicate more online than face-to-face. The German IT security expert posed the following question to 1,432 visitors on its website www.free-av.de: “Wikis, blogs and social networks – for many Internet users there is no way around the new Web-2.0 tools. Be honest, are you really into Web-2.0?”Web-2.0 is a popular buzzword with many facets: The term embraces all Internet applications that provide design and communication possibilities to the user. Wiki websites are the most popular applications for Web-2.0 users and video communities that are used in parallel to conventional media. Blogs are a popular source of information for specific purposes and ten percent of the Avira interviewees value the information found on them. The popularity and the increasing familiarity of bloggers contribute to use blogs on a regular basis. Data protectors have been warning against the data striptease in Web 2.0 since the online community Facebook used its members as an advertising media: 40 percent of the participants in the survey by Avira are against the digital exhibitionism in Web-2.0 and do not disclose their personal data in social networks, blogs or wikis. Twenty-eight percent of the participants in the survey think that “Facebook, self-portrayals on MySpace or status messages on Twitter don‘t make any sense”. For some, Web 2.0 applications are the new entertainment media of the future and for others, they are a mere waste of time.“Businesses sooner or later will have to use the new forms of knowledge and information exchange such as weblogs”, says Tjark Auerbach, founder and CEO of Avira. “For many German companies, Web-2.0 functions such as corporate blogs, are etiquette”.Spam senders discovered Web-2.0 is useful for their purposes: recently two American spammers were adjudged $ 230 million, because they had sent spam messages to members of the community website MySpace. Eight percent of the people who participated in the survey by Avira agreed that such incidents are reason enough for them to turn their back on Web-2.0. “The operators of Web-2.0 applications should protect the users from the abuse of news, spam and phishing emails”, recommends Auerbach. “Users should protect their private sphere and restrict their personal information to a minimum. Potential employers can use these portals, for instance, as a source of information on future employees.”Avira offers basic protection at http://www.freee-av.com/ to surf the Net without fear of malware. Users, who wish to have a greater amount of security on the Net, can purchase the Avira Internet Security Suite for 39.95 euro a year. In addition to the award-winning virus protection, the software offers a firewall as well as an anti-spam and a backup feature.
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