RISING Antivirus Free Edition 2009

Antivirus program

Our Rating: (Very Good!)

RISING Antivirus Free Edition is a full-featured antivirus program that protects your computers against all types of viruses, Trojans, Worms, Rootkits and other malicious programs. It offers real-time protection, email scanning (POP3/SMTP), automatic updates, scheduled scans and all others standard features, as well as a set of advanced system protection tools that monitor for system changes, suspicious application behavior and other potential issues. The free version offers the same level of protection as the commercial version but does not include a firewall.

Freeware

F-Prot Antivirus for DOS

Command-line anti-virus scaner

Our Rating: (Very Good)

F-Prot Antivirus for DOS is the classic command line scanner for the DOS operating system. Among features included in F-Prot Antivirus for DOS is an effective heuristic scanner to scan for new viruses and suspicious files. F-Prot Antivirus will scan inside compressed files, as well as in Word documents and Excel workbooks.

Freeware

PC Tools AntiVirus Free Edition

Antivirus scanner

Our Rating: (Very Good)

PC Tools AntiVirus Free Edition is an anti-virus scanner, that provides real-time protection against viruses, worms and Trojans. It also offers on-demand scans, as well as automatic updates and real-time scanning of incoming and outgoing mail. Other features include heuristic scanning and scheduled scans. The Free Edition offers limited support and non-priority updates.

Freeware

Avira AntiVir Personal

Antivirus scanner

Our Rating: (Very Good)

Avira AntiVir Personal offers the effective protection against computer viruses for the individual and private use on a single PC-workstation. It detects and removes more than 50,000 viruses and an Internet-Update Wizard for easy updating. The built in resident Virus Guard serves to monitor file movements automatically, for example when downloading files from the internet. Heuristic scanning protects Protection against previously unknown macro viruses. Note: This free version brings up a daily nag screen that advertises the Professional versions which are available from the company.

Freeware

AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition

Antivirus scanner

Our Rating: (Very Good)

AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition is an anti-virus scanner that offers Resident Protection, e-mail Scanner, On-Demand Scanner, and Virus Vault for safe handling of infected files and automatic updates. The free version is limited in features, but includes all basic scanning functionality as well as real-time protection. It uses the same scanning engine as the commercial version, however updates are provided on a low priority basis.

This program automatically installs a Yahoo! toolbar unless you opt-out.

Freeware

avast! Home Edition

Anti-virus scanner

Our Rating: (Excellent)

Avast! Home Edition is a complete anti-virus package, that is is free for registered home non-commercial users. It contains an on-demand scanner with two interfaces (simple for novices and advanced for experienced users), an on-access scanner with Standard Shield (which protects against execution and opening malware programs) and an embedded e-mail scanner which scans incoming and outgoing email messages. avast! Home integrates with the Windows Explorer right click menu and also includes a special screen saver which is able to scan your system while your computer is not in use. Updates are incremental and frequently made available for manual or scheduled download. You will download a 60 days demo, if you would like to continue free usage beyond that time, you`ll need to register from the home page to obtain a free activation key by email.

Freeware

Threat Fire

Detect malicious computer activity

Our Rating: (Very Good!)

ThreatFire provides behavior-based security monitoring to protect you from malicious programs such as Trojans, viruses, malware and other threats without relying on any signature updates. It can (should) be used along with your regular anti-virus program or firewall, adding an additional level of security to your system. The program works by continuously analyzing the behavior of processes and programs on your system and immediately alerts you if it detects any suspicious actions - you can then decide whether to allow or block the activity. ThreatFire comes ready-to-use and does not require any difficult configuration, however it also offers flexible rule settings that allow advanced users to customize the protection.

Freeware