Sunday, January 16, 2011

Avira AntiVir Personal 10.0.0.609 - FREE Antivirus

Avira AntiVir Personal 10.0.0.609 - FREE Antivirus
Avira AntiVir Personal - Free Antivirus protects your computer against dangerous viruses, worms, Trojans and costly dialers. AntiVir Personal Edition offers effective protection against computer viruses for the individual and private use on a single PC-workstation. It detects and removes viruses and includes an Internet-Update Wizard for easy updating. The built in resident Virus Guard serves to monitor file movements automatically, for example when downloading files from the Internet. Heuristic scanning protects Protection against previously unknown macro viruses. The program offers a wide selection of scan customization, letting users fully scan both internal and external hard drives, run a preloaded scan - for rootkits, for example - or customize a scan. On a real-world computer, the full scan took about 1 hour and 12 minutes, which is average. Avira includes antispyware protections, scanning tech that can crack open "locked" files, improved internal security to prevent AntiVir's files from being maliciously altered.

The Local Protection and Administration navigation options reveal the Scanner, Guard, Quarantine, and Scheduler features. Combined with the Configuration button located at the top of the central pane, users can customize scans as necessary. When Avira quarantines a file, its information is on display along with options to scan it again, restore, delete, and e-mail the file to Avira. The apps rebuilt heuristic engine retains the same choices from the previous version had, and it can be turned on or off in part or in full and offers three intensity levels. Not counting the lively user forums, Avira's included help features are good for a free antivirus app, with mouse-over information on each feature. The scheduler, once a major Avira selling point because it was light-years ahead of other free security suites, has now been caught up to by its competitors.

Avira AntiVir Personal gives you the following functions:
• Control Center for monitoring, administering and controlling the entire program
• Central configuration with user-friendly standard and advanced options and context-sensitive help
• Scanner (On-Demand Scan) with profile-controlled and configurable search for all known types of virus and malware
• Integration into the Windows Vista User Account Control allows you to carry out tasks requiring administrator rights
• Guard (On-Access Scan) for continuous monitoring of all file access attempts
• Integrated quarantine management to isolate and process suspicious files
• Rootkit protection for detecting hidden malware installed in your computer system (rootkits)(Only for 32-bit systems)
• Direct access to detailed information on the detected viruses and malware via the Internet
• Simple and quick updates to the program, virus definitions, and search engine through Single File Update and incremental VDF updates via a webserver on the Internet
• Integrated Scheduler to plan one-off or recurring tasks, such as updates or test runs
• Very high rates of virus and malware detection using innovative search technologies (search engines) and heuristic search processes
• Detection of all common archive types, including detection of nested archives and smart extensions
• High-performance multithreading function (simultaneous high-speed scanning of multiple files)

Operating systems:
- Microsoft Windows 2000, SP 4
- Microsoft Windows XP Home or Professional, SP2
- Microsoft Windows Vista (32 or 64 Bit)
- Microsoft Windows 7 (32 or 64 Bit)

Homepage - http://www.free-av.com

Size: 56.5 MB

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Friday, January 14, 2011

Antivirus security- Install the best one in your PC

Antivirus security- Install the best one in your PC
Antivirus security is essential to protect your computer from unwanted viruses affecting your PC parts adversely. In fact one should employ all efforts to keep your computer 100% safe. If you use computer only for writing and for printing purposes without using Internet then your computer would be safe from outside Trojans. It is common that your computer get attacked from viruses and other malware so it is mandatory on our part to employ anti virus security to get protected from undesired malware. An individual do several things with his personal computer like receives emails, instant messaging downloads files and many more. While doing all these he may allow any malware or virus to get entered in his PC. It’s like an open home which invites thief and other corrupt people to take advantage to steal things from your house to harm you. So working on internet is also similar and invites Trojans and other malware. When a computer is connected to a network then it begins to listen for communications from outside. This led to the things called as ports which are usually the special doors to the computers. Through these doors any malware or virus can easily enter your computer. So it is important to install the best antivirus software in your PC which can protect all your files and data from being infected by the Trojans. Sometimes it becomes difficult for you to judge which anti virus is the most effective. You can read the reviews of several anti virus software online to know about their effectiveness in healing the malware. Good quality software is one which searches for the viruses and heals them instantly so that none of your files get corrupted. You can find several online companies offering best anti virus software and shows user rating and people’s feedback which helps people to judge whether the software is good enough to get downloaded or not. Apart from installing antivirus software for antivirus security, other things which should be taken care of include: • Don’t use internet explorer as your main browser as it is more susceptible to get infected with Trojans. • Put a firewall between your internal network and the internet. • Employ a firewall on each individual computer. • Use a good spyware program. All these points will help you in protecting your PC from malware and other harmful viruses.

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