• Antivirus Software •
Comodo Internet Security
You have the choice to install Firewall and Antivirus separately or together during installation process. I don't want to write a lot of text at this point, but I have to say that the whole package was easy to use and to configure. I think it'll be a good choice for beginners and advanced users who will find a lot of features and settings to configure. Naturally there is an On-Access Scanner that provides protection for all applications which need to interact with the Internet. Within the first 2 days of usage, I had to confirm internet access for several programs which need to communicate with the web. Once I did it for the web browser and the FTP client, marked them as trusted and configured how the progs could connect (only thru TCP and HTTP for the browser, the FTP client thru TCP and FTP only), the whole configuration was done for me. Regular home users may have to do less configuration and professionals have to do more. The antivirus engine identified some well known and trused programs as e.g. malware but you can mark them as trusted and report those False Positives easily to Comodo.
I shot a few Screenshots, have a look!
Antivirus 1 Antivirus 2 Firewall 1 Firewall 2 Internet Security
As you can see on the last Screenshot that it's Internet Security Premium but don't worry, Comodo named the free version Premium. Check it out here!
Compatible with Windows XP (SP2) - 7 (32-/64-bit).
Visit the Homepage of the free Comodo Internet Security.
Visit the Support Website if you need help!
Download Antivirus (Windows/Mac OS X) and Firewall (Windows) separately!
AVG Antivirus Free
AVG Antivirus Free protects your computers with a resident module (On-Access Scanner), on-demand scanner, automatic updates, link scanner, USB pendrive scanner, safe search and security toolbar for web browsers. AVG Antivirus Free is free for the private, non-commercial usage ONLY!
Screenshots: Overview/Scanner Update/Languages eMail/Resident
Download AVG Antivirus Free for Linux, FreeBSD and Windows 2000 - 7.
Visit the Support Forum if you need help.
Avira AntiVir Personal
AntiVir Personal is free for personal, individual use. Features: Detection and removing of all known viruses, integrated update function, dialer protection, macro virus protection, protection against trojans, worms and boot record viruses. AntiVir comes with on-access scan for constant monitoring and an on-demand scanner for scanning your desired files and folders manually.
For Linux, Solaris and Windows 2000 - 7 (32- and 64-bit).
I grabbed two Screenshots with my neighbors Notebook.
Please visit the AntiVir Homepage to get the program.
Visit the Support Forum if you need help.
avast! Home
avast! Home is a good and free antivirus software which removes all known viruses from your computers. Updates for the antivirus definitions are retrieved automatically and you have to confirm for program updates. Integrated Shields: File system Shield, Mail Shield which protects all traffic over POP3 (Incoming Mail), SMTP (Outgoing Mail), IMAP4 (Internet Message Access Protocol) and NNTP (News). Read a Wikipedia article about these protocols). Network Shield , P2P Shield (peer-to-peer) and IM (Instant Messenger) shield and last but not at least the Web Shield which works as a transparent proxy server for monitoring and filtering all HTTP traffic. The on-access scanner does monitor your computers permanently and and will protect against viruses, worms, trojans, keyloggers, rootkits, macro viruses, boot record viruses, dialers and spyware. You can scan single files, folders and USB Flash drives manually thru using the on-demand scanner.
Screenshots: Summary Shields Settings
avast! Home is compatible with Windows (no server systems) XP - 7 (32/64-bit). Free for HOME users for NON-COMMERCIAL use only but a (free) registration is necessary.
Download avast! Home for Windows: Developer
Download avast! Linux Home Edition (32-bit) Edition.
Visit the the Support Forum if you need help.
Download some different Skins if you like.
ClamAV
An on-access real-time protection module is only integrated in ClamAV for Windows (Immunet, powered by ClamAV for Windows XP SP 3 (32-bit), Vista and Seven (32/64-bit)).
ClamAV is a good virus scanner which is available for UNIX/Linux (32/64-bit), check if ClamAV is available from your distributions repository! ClamAV is definitely available within the repositories of Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, SUSE Linux Enterprise and openSUSE, RedHat and Fedora, Mandriva, Gentoo, Pardus and I think that a lot of more ditributions provides ClamAV. Simply use Synaptic, Adept, the Software Center or however your distributions package or software manager is called. ClamAV is also available for FreeBSD and OpenBSD, Solaris, HP-UX, OpenVMS, OSF and AIX.
Check the ClamAV Website!
ClamTk is the graphical (gtk2-perl) frontend for UNIX/Linux with GNOME, Xfce and LXDE.
KlamAV is ClamAV with a graphical frontend especially for UNIX/Linux with KDE.
Other projects based on ClamAV:
ClamWin for Windows 98 - 7 does not include an on-access real-time virus scanner.
ClamWin Portable is a very useful tool if you need to heal infected computers of friends or at work.
ClamXav for Mac OS X, PPC and Intel Mac.
Tip: Ninja Pendisk will scan all USB pendisks which will be connected to your PC's, removes viruses from the inserted pendisk and will immunize it! If you have e.g. AVG Antivirus (where a pendisk scanner is included) installed, you won't need Ninja Pendisk and should NOT use it cause two Antivirus scanners can hurt another and this can crash your Computer!
Virus removal - Informations and tools
If your computer is infected, you can get free removal tools from various developers!
McAfee Stinger (approx. 7 MB) is able to remove nearly all known viruses, is always up-to-date and portable. Perfect for virus cleaning on the go! Get informations about recent viruses and perform an online scan with McAfee FreeScan first.
View a Screenshot of Stinger.
Get single removal tools for a lot of viruses and worms:
BitDefender - free removal tools and free Online Scan.
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Important! The System Restore Feature under Windows ME - 7 will recover the virus if you restore your system to an earlier configuration.
Disable it before you start to remove viruses and enable it again after you removed viruses successfully!
Windows ME: Click Start - Settings - Control Panel and double click the icon System than click on File System on the Performance tab, select the Troubleshooting tab
and check Disable System Restore.
Windows XP: You need administrative rights! Click on Start, right click My Computer and click Properties than select the System Restore tab and check Turn off System Restore.
Windows Vista: You need administrative rights! Right click the Computer icon on your Desktop, select Properties and select System Protection, uncheck all checked drives and hit Turn System Restore Off.
Windows 7: You need administrative rights! Right click the Computer icon on your Desktop, select Properties and select System protection, then select the disk under Protection Settings, click on Configure and hit Turn off system protection, click OK and OK again.
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