Antivirus Software

* Antivirus (or "anti-virus") software is a class of program that searches your hard drive and floppy disks for any known or potential viruses. The market for this kind of program has expanded because of Internet growth and the increasing use of the Internet by businesses concerned about protecting their computer assets.

Important Read First: BACKUP YOUR DATA , I would hate for you to lose all your data if something went wrong.

Products:

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* AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition Version 9.0 software
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Integrated protection, Virus and spyware protection, Safe web surfing, downloading and instant messaging (not available with AVG Free), Hacker attacks prevention (not available with AVG Free), Phishing and E-Mail scam blocking (not available with AVG Free), Free AVG 24x7 technical support (not available with AVG Free)

Supported platforms: Windows® 2000 Professional SP4 + SRP1 (Service Pack 4 download, Update Rollup 1 download), Windows® 2000 Server SP4 + SRP1 (Service Pack 4 download, Update Rollup 1 download), Windows® XP Professional SP2 or higher (Service Pack download), Windows® XP Home SP2 or higher (Service Pack download), Windows® XP Professional x64 Edition SP1 or higher (Service Pack download), Windows® 2003 Server SP1 or higher (Service Pack download), Windows® Vista x32/x64 - all editions, Windows® 2008 Server x32/x64 edition, Windows® 7 x32/x64 - all editions.

* ClamAV for Windows Anti-Virus Free software Click Here to Download. Very light on system resources. The new concept is about a Cloud type Antivirus. Read website for more information.

Software was installed on Microsoft Windows 7 Pro with all patches.

Supported platforms: Microsoft Windows 7 / Vista SP1/ XP. 32Bit or 64Bit.

* Clamwin Anti-Virus Free software Click Here to Download. Very light on system resources, on test machine Clamwin only used around 20mb of memory. Under powered workstation would like using this product.

Software was installed on Microsoft Windows XP Pro with SP3 installed and all patches.

Supported platforms: Microsoft Windows 7 / Vista / XP / Me / 2000 / 98 and Windows Server 2008 and 2003.

Think you might of received or downloaded a application that has a virus. Check out this website. You upload the file to this online service and then you will know if there is a virus or not.

* Virus Total
Click Here to see what Virus might be in the file.

* Online Virus Scanners
Click Here to use Microsoft Online Virus Scanner.
Click Here to use Bitdefender Online Virus Scanner.
Click Here to use Kaspersky Online Virus Scanner.