FREE ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE

AVIRA ANTIVIR PERSONAL EDITION CLASSIC

Avira antivir personal edition classic is a free antivirus solution for home users.during the installation,the user has the option to install either one or both modules:Antivir guard and sheel Extension.
 The antivir guard is the on-access scanning element of the software.it runs in the background and monitors file during operations such as open,write and copy.when a useroperates on a file,antivir guard automatically scans the file for infection.the shell extension module installs a new menu item to the right click context menu.this way,you can conveniently scan any file or folder by just right-clicking on it.
     

    
 The interface of the software is easy to use and one can feel right at home using it.Interestingly,the main window doesn't show a button to start a scan.you can either trigger a scan by using the right-click menu or by dragging and dropping a file or folder onto the windows.As it is the main window of the program,it only shows buttons to configure the anti-virus program.
 Avira antivir personal edition classic supports scanning files compressed with almost all the major file compression formats.there is also an option to scan only the boot records,this is useful if a boot sector virus has infected your computer.
     The software is light on system resources and increased the boot-up time by just 7 seconds.it also logged the lowest scan times of 231 seconds in our test scan.While scheduled scanning is supported,e-mail scanning is absent.The outbreak response time of this antivirus is between four and six hours,which is somewhat comfortable for the user as it leaves the system vulnerable for not very long.You can upgrade to the premium version for just RS 1,200 and get additional features such as Mailguard,Adware,and spyware detection.

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Minimum system Requirements:Windows 98 or higher,NT or higher(not server),128 MB RAM for WINDOWS 98/ME/NT,196 MB RAM for WINDOWS XP,IE 5.0

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