Posted by Koushik Chatterjee
on Sunday, September 27, 2009
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ESET NOD32 Antivirus is the most effective protection you can find to combat today's huge volumes of Internet and email threats. It provides comprehensive antivirus and antispyware protection without affecting your computer's performance.
Using advanced ThreatSense® technology, ESET NOD32 Antivirus proactively protects you from new attacks, even during the critical first hours when other vendors' products aren't aware the attack even exists. ESET NOD32 Antivirus detects and disables both known and unknown viruses, trojans, worms, adware, spyware, rootkits and other Internet threats.
ESET NOD32 Antivirus is also one of the fastest antivirus solutions, so fast you won't even notice it running. And it's both incredibly easy to use yet simple to tailor for your specific needs. Key Benefits:
Protection from the Unknown
Finds Malware Other AV Companies Missed
Built for Speed
Easy on Your System
Easy on You
Best antivirus software
Excels at preventing viruses
Low system drain
No software conflicts
Improved user interface
Doesn't include firewall protection
Relatively expensive
What's New in NOD32 4.0.437 :
· Fixed: After installation of ESET Smart Security 4.0.424, some web sites are blocked with http scanner (seznam.cz)
· Fixed: Thunderbird plug-in may corrupt email in some occasions + several minor fixes
· Fixed: Problem with the creation of Rescue CD after reinstallation from ESET Smart Security 4 to ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4
· Minor fixes in ESET SysInspector
@VG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.5 is trusted antivirus and antispyware protection for Windows available to download for free. In addition, the new included LinkScanner® Active Surf-Shield checks web pages for threats at the only time that matters – when you're about to click that link.
AVG Anti-Virus Free has these following features:
Award-winning antivirus and antispyware
Real-time safe internet surfing and searching
Quality proven by 80 million of users
Easy to download, install and use
Protection against viruses and spyware
Compatible with Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP
AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.5 is only available for single computer use for home and non commercial use.
The previous version of AVG’s free antivirus package won a Highly Commended award in our Reliability and Service Awards 2007 as voted by PC Authority readers, and this new version benefits from the clean, blue design that debuted last month in the commercial AVG Internet Security Suite.
As with its paid-for cousin, all the modules are accessed from one console. You get the same antivirus and antispyware components as in the full security suite, making AVG Free a competent if not record-breaking virus detector. When we tested it against some current malware, it identified 22 out of 28 threats, while the A-Listed Kaspersky Anti-Virus 7 spotted 24.
Naturally, the free version doesn’t have all the commercial product’s features. You don’t get any sort of firewall, nor the anti-spam module, though the package does integrate with your email client to stop mail-based attacks. It also includes the new LinkScanner feature, which the company acquired last year when it bought out Exploit Prevention Labs.
This browser plug-in integrates with Google, Yahoo and MSN, automatically scanning the pages returned as search results and highlighting potentially dangerous links before you click on them. You can also optionally have your results sent anonymously back to AVG, to help expand its database.
AVG warns you should still surf cautiously, though, as this free edition lacks the commercial package’s sandboxing feature that tests out unknown code in a secure environment. It also comes with no technical support, and – in the package’s only conspicuous piece of pushiness – the optional web toolbar includes a Yahoo search box which can’t be hidden, and a greyed out “Active Surf-Shield” button that tries to upsell you to the full package.
@vast! antivirus Home Edition represents the best free antivirus protection currently available on the market. This edition is FREE OF CHARGE for non-commercial & home use. Its features include:
Anti-spyware built-in
Web Shield
Anti-rootkit built-in
Automatic updates
Strong self-protection
Virus Chest
Antivirus kernel
System integration
Simple User Interface
Integrated Virus Cleaner
Resident protection
Support for 64-bit Windows
P2P and IM Shields
Internationalization
Network Shield
Avast is an innovative anti-virus application with a couple of great features that's being missed in some of the best security applications available today. Its real-time protection is the best we have seen amongst the products reviewed. In today's world of cyber crime, prevention is better than curing. Installation
A simple and straightforward installation process. An impressive feature is the option to do a boot-up scan the next time you restart your computer. Automatic Updating
Yes. Real-time Protection
The most impressive part of Avast. Avast's real-time protection consists of 7 different resident shields:
Instant Messenger Shield
This shield is useful for those who love to do instant messaging. A total of 18 different instant messaging programs are supported including popular messaging clients like AIM, MSN Messenger, ICQ, Trillian, mIRC, Yahoo Messenger, etc. Internet Mail Shield
The Internet Mail Shield provides protection for POP, SMTP, IMAP and NNTP mail protocols. Network Shield
Like the name says, protection for networks. It acts like a typical firewall. Outlook/Exchange Shield
This shield is only active when you have Microsoft Outlook/Exchange installed on your PC. P2P Shield
A total of 28 Peer-to-Peer (also known as Point-to-Point) programs are supported. Most popular ones supported are Kazaa, BearShare, iMesh, LimeWire and eMule. Standard Shield
This is your standard anti-virus shield, which provides auto protection against known threats. Web Shield
The Web Shield scans content from the World Wide Web while you are browsing. You can also specify certain URL's to be blocked by this shield.
Another impressive feature is the Virus Recovery Database (VRDB). This little useful utility creates a database of the files on your computer. This will enable Avast to restore them to their original state, should they get infected. Resource Usage
Avast's resource usage is really not bad at all, especially if you take into consideration that the resident shield consists of 7 different sub-shields running in the memory. Of course they do not all run simultaneously (for instance the Internet Mail Shield will only do active processing when you download e-mail). The system are very responsive during the scanning process and the VRDB can be set to only update the database when the system is idle, so it won't interfere while you are working on your computer. We did notice that certain parts, like the virus chest took some time to open, but this was mainly due to the high number of infections that were quarantined on our system. Isolation of Threats
Very good. All access to infected files and objects are restricted by the resident shield. You can also configure the shield to bring up a confirmation box when specific file types (you can even specify your own set of file extensions) are opened for writing or when they are renamed, deleted, or when formatting operations are started. You will have the option to allow or deny any of these operations. Interface
We found this part of the program the most disappointing one. The user is annoyed by popup windows from the resident shield, which require constant user interaction, on a severely infected machine. Anti-virus programs like AVG automatically takes action when the user does not respond in a timely matter. Another thing we feel that may cause confusion for users is the fact that you have to choose how thorough a scan should be every time you want to scan your computer. We feel that this is something that should be set-up automatically to a default setting during the initial installation of the program and allow the user to change it at a later time. Novice users will seldom change the default setting and the expert user will only change it when needed. Scanning & Healing
The scanning process is not completely automated. The scanning stops when the first infection is found. The user has the option of ticking a box to instruct Avast not to show the popup box until the scanning is completed. The user must also select what action should be taken against the infection. Avast will take the same action against every infection found if you ticked the box mentioned earlier. Another option available is to choose not to take any action at the moment and to proceed with the scanning process. After the scanning process you will get a list of infected objects found on your system. You can then take action against them all at once or one by one. Although it is not critical we would have liked to see a counter during the scanning process indicating the number of infections found as the scanning process progressed.
Fast-scan function: Yes
Scanning of Single objects: Yes
Customisable scanning: Yes
Boot sector scanning: Yes1
Memory scanning: Yes
Registry scanning: No2
System Area scanning: Yes3
1. The Standard Shield scans the boot sector at all times. The scanner does not scan the boot sector during the scanning process.
2. Avast does not scan the Windows Registry, but does access it when fixing certain infections.
3. There is not a separate scan for the system area but it is scanned every time you launch a scan.
The Quick scan took 20 minutes and 6 seconds on our system to analyse 29718 objects (1.8 GB of data) on our system.
The Standard scan took 26 minutes and 12 seconds to analyse 42951 objects (3.4 GB of data) on our system.
The Thorough scan took 31 minutes and 50 seconds to analyse 42955 objects (3.4 GB of data) on our system.
Avast had a 99% success rate during the healing process on our system. Some objects could not be moved to the virus chest and we had to instruct Avast to delete them. Un-installation
Clean and fast un-installation. No shortcut is provided for un-installation so you have to go to the Windows Control Panel to un-install.
CTC Rating for
Avast Home Edition:
Installation:
8
Automatic Updating:
8
Real-time Protection:
9
Resource Usage:
8
Isolation of Threats:
9
Interface:
5
Scanning & Healing:
7
Un-installation:
7
Overall:
7.63
Avast is a good anti-virus application with exceptional preventative features. We feel that certain interface aspects may be challenging to inexperienced users but poses no real problem to experienced ones. Free registration is required if you want to use the program more than 60 days. You have to obtain a new registration key every 14 months. This may be frustrating to some users but we think it is a good way to stay in touch with the users of your software.
The Antivir 9 Personal Edition also looks a little different from the previous version. Even with the great addition of anti-spyware and the changed look, it still has great detection capabilities, regular updates, and is still light on system resources.
Avira AntiVir Personal - FREE Antivirus 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. Monitors every action executed by the user or the operating system and reacts promptly when a malicious program is detected.
Detects and removes more than 150,000 viruses
Always among the winners of comparison test featured in computer journals
The resident Virus Guard serves to monitor file movements automatically, e.g. downloading of data from the internet
Scanning and repair of macro viruses
Protection against previously unknown macro viruses
Protection against trojaner, worms, backdoors, jokes and other harmful programs
AntiVir protection against viruses, worms and Trojans
AntiDialer protection against expensive dialers
AntiRootkit protection against hidden rootkits
AntiVir protection against viruses, worms and Trojans
AntiPhishing protection against phishing
AntiSpyware protection against spyware and adware
NetbookSupport for laptops with low resolution
QuickRemoval eliminates viruses at the push of a button
Easy operation
Internet-Update Wizard for easy updating
Protection against previously unknown boot record viruses and master boot record viruses
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