Avira
Avira
Avira is one of the best free antivirus products you can find on the web, although its not an Internet security suite, you can use it if you dont browse lots of various websites.
Download it from its official website for free:
Download link
Key features:
- Control Center for monitoring, managing and controlling the entire program
- Central configuration with user-friendly standard and advanced options and contextsensitive
help
- System Scanner (on-demand scan) with profile-controlled and configurable scan 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.
- Realtime Protection (on-access scan) for continuous monitoring of all file access
attempts
- Avira SearchFree, a search toolbar integrated in the web browser providing quick and
convenient search options. It also includes widgets of the most common Internet
functions.
- Web Protection (for Avira Free Antivirus users, only in combination with the Avira
SearchFree Toolbar) for monitoring data and files transferred from the Internet using the
HTTP protocol (monitoring of ports 80, 8080, 3128)
- Integrated quarantine management to isolate and process suspicious files
- Rootkits protection for detecting hidden malware installed in your computer system
(rootkits)
(Not available under Windows XP 64 bit)
- 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 web server on the Internet
- Integrated Scheduler for planning one-off or recurring jobs such as updates or scans
- Extremely high virus and malware detection via innovative scanning technology (scan
engine) including heuristic scanning method
- Detection of all conventional archive types including detection of nested archives and
smart extension detection
- High-performance multithreading function (simultaneous high-speed scanning of
multiple files)
System requirements:
The system requirements are as follows:
- Computer Pentium or later, at least 1 GHz
- Operating system
- Windows XP, newest SP (32 or 64 bit) or
- Windows Vista, newest SP (32 or 64 bit) or
- Windows 7, newest SP (32 or 64 bit)
- At least 150 MB of free hard disk memory space (more if using quarantine for temporary
storage)
- At least 512 MB RAM under Windows XP
- At least 1024 MB RAM under Windows Vista, Windows 7
- For the program installation: Administrator rights
- For all installations: Windows Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher
- Internet connection where appropriate
Download it from its official website for free:
Download link
- Control Center for monitoring, managing and controlling the entire program
- Central configuration with user-friendly standard and advanced options and contextsensitive
help
- System Scanner (on-demand scan) with profile-controlled and configurable scan 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.
- Realtime Protection (on-access scan) for continuous monitoring of all file access
attempts
- Avira SearchFree, a search toolbar integrated in the web browser providing quick and
convenient search options. It also includes widgets of the most common Internet
functions.
- Web Protection (for Avira Free Antivirus users, only in combination with the Avira
SearchFree Toolbar) for monitoring data and files transferred from the Internet using the
HTTP protocol (monitoring of ports 80, 8080, 3128)
- Integrated quarantine management to isolate and process suspicious files
- Rootkits protection for detecting hidden malware installed in your computer system
(rootkits)
(Not available under Windows XP 64 bit)
- 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 web server on the Internet
- Integrated Scheduler for planning one-off or recurring jobs such as updates or scans
- Extremely high virus and malware detection via innovative scanning technology (scan
engine) including heuristic scanning method
- Detection of all conventional archive types including detection of nested archives and
smart extension detection
- High-performance multithreading function (simultaneous high-speed scanning of
multiple files)
System requirements:
The system requirements are as follows:
- Computer Pentium or later, at least 1 GHz
- Operating system
- Windows XP, newest SP (32 or 64 bit) or
- Windows Vista, newest SP (32 or 64 bit) or
- Windows 7, newest SP (32 or 64 bit)
- At least 150 MB of free hard disk memory space (more if using quarantine for temporary
storage)
- At least 512 MB RAM under Windows XP
- At least 1024 MB RAM under Windows Vista, Windows 7
- For the program installation: Administrator rights
- For all installations: Windows Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher
- Internet connection where appropriate
