Anti-Virus Tools

Sunbelt VIPRE Antivirus + Antispyware integrates full featured antivirus, antimalware and rootkit scanning into a single, easy-to-use product. It offers real-time protection, full protection against email-borne threats, automatic updates as well as scheduled scans and antispyware detection based on their popular Counterspy product. VIPRE was designed to be effective without slowing down your PC through high resource usage. The program also includes some additional tools that allow advanced users to securely delete files, a history cleaner and a PC Explorer to inspect certain system settings.

AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition is an anti-virus scanner that offers real-time Resident Protection, e-mail Scanner, On-Demand Scanner, and Virus Vault for safe handling of infected files and automatic updates. You can run scheduled and manual scans, automatically download the latest signature updates, and choose between two different interface layouts.

Protector Plus can detect and remove all types of viruses like boot and partition viruses, COM and EXE (DOS) viruses, SYS file viruses, 16 bit Windows viruses, 32 bit Windows viruses, document viruses, Excel viruses and more. Additional features include email scanning, online updates, memory scan, scheduled scans and more.

avast! Professional Edition is a complete antivirus package for small office home office use. It includes an on-demand scanner to scan files or directories as needed as well as an on-access scanner for automatic scanning of all files being opened, read and written. In addition, a behavior blocker monitors for dangerous actions. avast! Professional Edition also includes an E-mail scanner for incoming and outgoing mail, that integrates with most mail clients. Additional features include script blocking, boot time scanning, right-click access from Explorer, screen saver integration, archive scanning and more. Virus Chest, the built-in quarantine environment safely stores infected or suspicious files. The program offers frequent, incremental updates at least twice a week, or as needed when new viruses emerge.

Avira AntiVir PersonalEdition Premium is a complete anti-virus protection with real-time file and email scanning. It protects you from viruses, Trojans, Adware, Spyware, Rootkits and other pests while using little system resources. Other features include scheduled and manual system scans, automatic signature updates and more.

F-Prot Antivirus is an easy to use antivirus software package, specially designed to protect your data from virus infection and to remove any virus that may have infected your computer system. It features real-time protection and email scanning, as well as heuristic detection of suspected viruses. Automatic updates ensure that any new virus is immediately added to the F-Prot Antivirus detection and disinfection database.

eScan Anti-Virus (a.k.a G DATA AntiVirusKit 2007) provides complete protection against viruses, using real-time file and email scanning as well as on-demand scanning. It includes a heuristic scan engine that detects and blocks over 90,000 known and unknown viruses. The program offers all of the standard scanning features including scan restrictions, logging and scheduled scans.

eScan Internet Security Suite combines several security utilities to protect against viruses, objectionable content, spyware, adware, keyloggers, hackers and other privacy threats. It offers real-time virus scanning for local files, web content and email, heuristic scanning and hourly update checks. In addition to the standard anti-virus features, the program includes a Content Administrator, that enables you to control Internet and email content, block common spam by keyword and clean browser tracks (IE and Netscape only). The content filtering also allows you to set Parental Control options to block inappropriate web sites, restrict internet usage with daily time limits and more. Furthermore, eScan Internet Security Suite also includes a file access protection module, that lets you protect files from being modified.

TrojanHunter is an advanced trojan scanner and toolbox, that searches for and removes trojans from your system. It uses several proven methods to find a wide variety of trojans such as file scanning, port scanning, memory scanning and registry scanning. The difference to many other trojan scanners is that TrojanHunter also allows you to add custom trojan definitions and detection rules using the easy to understand dialogs. It includes several additional tools, including a NetStat viewer, Memory String Extractor, Process Viewer, Auto-Start Explorer and various plug-ins for advanced users. TrojanHunter comes with a Live Update features that keeps the Trojan signatures current.

The Cleaner Professional is designed to keep your computer and data safe from Trojans, Worms, Keyloggers, Spyware and many other types of malware. It actively monitors files and processes on your computer and intercepts Trojans as soon as they are detected. In addition, the TCMonitor keeps track of registry keys, files and folders and alerts you if changes are detected. Additional features include quarantine options, scheduled scans, Explorer integration and more. The Cleaner is not intended to replace your anti-virus program.

avast! U3 Edition s a mobile version of Avast anti-virus, that is designed to protect U3 smart drives from viruses and other forms of malware. The program can also be used to scan files or folders on the host computer that is connected to your USB drive. You can create a list of trusted computers, and automatically scan all other machines for virus infections as soon as you insert your USB drive, thereby preventing any host infection to spread to your USB drive. Other features include automatic virus signature updates, real-time virus shield and proxy support.

MailSecurity for Exchange/SMTP is an email content checking, exploit detection, threats analysis and anti-virus solution that removes all types of email-borne threats before they can affect your email users. MailSecurity s key features include multiple virus engines, for better protection; email content and attachment checking, to quarantine dangerous emails; an exploit shield, to perform email intrusion detection & defence; and an email threats engine, to analyse & defuse HTML scripts, .exe files & more. The software is available for VS API or as a gateway version - The VS API version integrates with Exchange Server 2000 and scans the Exchange 2000 information stores. The gateway version should be deployed at the perimeter of the network as a mail relay server. MailSecurity for Exchange/SMTP can also be used for free, using a single virus scanning engine, which makes it a great no-cost solution for small mail servers.

Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal secures your PC against viruses and Trojans, as well as adware, spyware and other malware. It also scans your incoming and outgoing mail in real-time, offers real-time protection and on-demand scanning. Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal scans inside compressed files, and offers automatic updated of virus signatures every 3 hours.

Unsurpassed Email Protection: MailScan for MDaemon offers incredible network protection and an unsurpassed ability to detect, detain and delete infected Email. The revolutionary software has the ability to automatically upgrade and reconfigure itself with updated anti-virus information. MailScan also prevents inappropriate content from entering your network with a great content control feature.

Norton AntiVirus is the world s leading anti-virus software. Just install it and forget it! It s always working in the background to protect your PC, and automatically updates its virus definitions when you are connected to the Internet. It also scans files you download from the web, as well as attachments you get through email, instant messages, and others by automatically removing viruses, worms, and Trojan horses. Norton AntiVirus users also get the assistance of the Symantec AntiVirus Research Center (SARC), whose global staff is on duty 24 hours a day detecting new viruses and developing antidotes to safeguard your data.

Panda Antivirus Platinum transparently eliminates viruses at the desktop and TCP/IP (Winsock) level, which means that it detects and disinfects viruses before they can touch your hard drive. It can protect your computer from more than 60,000 different viruses, including encrypted, polymorphic, boot, file, macro (Word, Excel, and Access), trojans, Java applets, ActiveX controls, malignant Web sites, email, Internet, and even future unknown viruses. It includes an email and Internet protection resident that will scan POP3, SMTP, HTTP, FTP, mIRC, and NNTP traffic in real time. The program s unique SOS service will resolve any problem with unknown viruses in less than 24 hours.