After having Ashampoo AntiSpyWare here, now it's the time for the hot antivirus solution from Ashampoo released at the end of last week. The name of this software solution to the virus menace is Ashampoo AntiVirus, and if you used the antispyware tool from Ashampoo, then this one is going to be a joyride.

The first public version of this antivirus is labeled 1.0 and comes as a 10 days trial that can be extended to a month if you register to receive a free code from Ashampoo. The installation kit has exactly 12MB in size and the setup process is as easy as possible to complete. Once you finish the setup process, you have to reboot your computer before using the program for the first time. Now, let's start diggin'!

If you have seen the antispyware tool from Ashampoo, then you also know the looks of the antivirus. The interface I see here is not skinnable, but other than that, it looks like the antispyware - a menu bar and six major areas - Main Menu, Scan, Schedule, Quarantine, Report and Preferences. As usual, I'll take you through each of these areas and tell you some things about them.

The Main Menu area is used to get information about the program's previous activity, update status and for starting various tasks. The real time protection, called AntiVirus Guard, can be enabled and disabled here with a single mouse click. The daily automatic updates can be enabled or disabled and you can also start different scanning tasks here. The number of viruses currently recognized by the program and the date of the last update can also be found out inside the Main Menu, as well as the number of scans performed, engine version number, amount of infections found and removed.

Next, as usual, we find the Scan area. There is a full system scan mode available and six selective scan modes - memory, system areas, all hard drives, scan removable drives, CD-ROMs and custom folders scan. The same problem that I had with the antispyware occurred here - the scan process was pretty boring, but if you schedule your full system scan for the night time, you shouldn't care much about that.

The next area is, naturally, Schedule. There's nothing special to say about it, and I can't expect more from such a feature than to do its job.

Quarantine and Logs are the next two areas that I like to see clear of any data, and the reason should be obvious...Anyway, you don't have any reason to worry about their functionality, everything's just fine here.

This program's Preferences area has a single screen with settings very easy to understand for everybody that allow you to choose scan, updates and heuristics options.

ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite is the easy-to-use, comprehensive security solution that is based on the world's best firewall to keep out hackers, viruses, worms, and other threats. It combines the most popular firewall with antivirus, Web site filtering, privacy protection, instant messaging security and more to provide the best overall protection of any PC security suite.

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- NEW Triple Defense Firewall™

- NEW Integrated Anti-Spyware/Antivirus

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- ID and Privacy Protection

- Email Security

- Phishing and Spam Blocker

- IM Protection/Parental Control

- Wireless PC Protection

Along with its effective and easy-to-use firewall protection, ZoneAlarm Security Suite adds privacy, security, and virus-protection features. ZoneAlarm's wizard makes configuring a firewall incredibly easy. The app's stylish interface and simple slider controls make maintaining and updating settings a snap. Experts will appreciate options that let them set up custom rules. The program's Zones feature also allows you to assign different security levels for local networks and the Internet. We found ZoneAlarm Security Suite to be very good at recognizing and automatically including settings for our local network. In all our tests, the firewall guarded against all external and internal threats it encountered. Beyond the firewall function, ZoneAlarm Security Suite includes an antivirus scanner based on Computer Associates' Vet Anti-Virus. The cookie cleaner and ad blocker were effective, but the pop-up stopper failed a number of tests. The privacy-protection features let you apply settings individually to different Web sites. The ID Lock feature stores personal information, such as social security and credit card numbers. Security Suite is the only version of ZoneAlarm to incorporate a basic filter that blocks sites according to various types of content; you can configure it to block various types of naughtiness or just one category, such as racist material. Security Suite also incorporates the company's IMSecurity program, which protects instant-messenging programs from spam and encrypts messages (so long as the person on the other end also is using IMSecurity). Users looking for one solution to just about all their Internet security concerns can turn to ZoneAlarm Security Suite.

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Symantec's Norton AntiVirus 2007 is an antivirus solution that removes viruses and security risks automatically; heuristically detects Spyware threats, detects blocks Internet worm attacks, and protects email.

Symantec's Norton AntiVirus™ 2007 wards off a host of Internet threats. Whether its surfing or chatting, emailing or file swapping, Norton AntiVirus is constantly at work in the background, automatically detecting and removing viruses, Trojan horses, and worms. It also rids your computer of unwanted spyware, adware, and other monitoring software. And with powerful file-by-file scanning capabilities, Norton AntiVirus facilitates worry-free file sharing. Whether you shuttle files over email or via IM and whether you send them compressed or one at a time—you can be confident any file you open has been scanned for threats. Even if your computer is already infected, Norton AntiVirus is the ideal solution. It’s designed to identify and remove any existing viruses during installation.

Once installed, Norton AntiVirus continues to update itself automatically. That way, when a new threat arises, your software will be equipped to handle it. There’s no other virus protection like Norton AntiVirus. And if you want to use the Internet with confidence—and without dangerous spyware watching you—you need the most trusted solution available.

Norton AntiVirus 2007 includes new improvements and features.

Key Features:

- Automatically detect and block viruses, spyware, and worms

- Rootkit Protection finds and removes hidden threats in the operating system

- Internet Worm Protection blocks viruses, spyware and worms without specific signatures

- Email and instant message scanning detects, removes or blocks infected attachments

- Full System Scan performs a deep scan to remove existing viruses, spyware and other threats

- Norton Protection Center provides a central place to easily check overall security settings

- Includes protection updates and new product features as available throughout the renewable service period **

Panda Software is launching the new Panda Antivirus 2007, the lightest antivirus in the Panda Software consumer solutions range. This new, easy-to-use, antivirus solution offers complete protection against known and unknown Internet threats with a minimal use of system resources. The new Panda Antivirus 2007 is aimed at home users whose Internet use does not require all the features offered by a complete security suite. For this reason it has been designed to ‘install and forget’, protecting the system automatically from the moment it is installed.

This ultralight product has a minimal impact on system resources and is ideal for any computer, even those that wouldn't be able to support many other security products available on the market. System requirements for installing Panda Antivirus 2007 are 64MB RAM and a 150MHz Pentium processor. International surveys show that many users have two or more computers at home. With this in mind, Panda Software has launched a solution which can be installed on 2 PCs at no extra cost.

The product, available from August 3, includes complete protection and associated services (updates, 24h/365d tech support) for one year, at a price of just ˆ29.95 for two licenses. This makes it the best quality/price solution on the market at ˆ14.97 per license.

Traditional antivirus products, designed to combat classic threats such as viruses, worms, Trojans, etc. offer no defense against today’s silent epidemics fuelled by dangerous new threats including rootkits, banker Trojans, identity theft and online fraud. To counter the risks presented by this new panorama, proactive technologies are needed. Panda Antivirus 2007 is specifically designed to deal with the new Internet threat scenario.

NOD32 Antivirus System provides well balanced, state-of-the-art protection against threats endangering your PC and enterprise systems running various platforms from Microsoft Windows 95 / 98 / ME / NT / 2000 / 2003 / XP, through a number of UNIX/Linux, Novell, MS DOS operating systems to Microsoft Exchange Server, Lotus Domino and other mail servers.

Viruses, worms, trojans and other malware are kept out of striking distance of your valuable data. Advanced detection methods implemented in the software even provide protection against the future threats from most of the new worms and viruses.

The fourth generation of the NOD32 Antivirus System features a fully integrated software suite characterized by an unprecedented detection track record, the fastest scanning rates and extremely low utilization of system resources.

NOD32's detection efficiency combined with 2-50 times faster hard disk scanning rate earned the product many international prestigious awards.

NOD32 is the world leader of the Virus Bulletin 100% Awards having won more awards (21) than any competing product. Since its first submission for testing in May 1998, NOD32 was the only tested product that has never missed a single In the Wild virus.

NOD32 Antivirus System features:

- ThreatSense™ technology — a single optimized anti-threat engine for analyzing code to identify malicious behavior, such as viruses, spyware, adware, phishing and more

- Unprecedented heuristic analysis capable of discovering new malware threats as they emerge

- Powerful virtual PC emulation technology enables unpacking and decryption of all types of archives and run-time packing

- Able to clean active malware running in memory

- Protects at multiple infiltration points, including HTTP, POP3, SMTP and all local and removable media

- Removes infections from files that are locked for writing (e.g., loaded DLL file)

- Prevents infected files from being opened and executed, and warns on creation of infected files

- Automatic execution on system startup

- Supports multiple Terminal Server environments

- Supports scanning of mapped network disks

Key Features Include :

- Centralized management of the resident antivirus modules and filters.

- Intuitive directory tree style system for easy access to:

- Automatic, internet/LAN Update module

- Centralized system of log files for all installed modules

- AMON - resident on-access monitor

- NOD32 - on-demand scanner

- IMON - Internet monitor - scans e-mails incoming via the POP3 protocol

Spyware Vaccine is a spyware scanner , spyware remover, spyware monitor 3 in 1 solution. It keeps spyware activex away from your registry and live monitoring for 30000+ spyware.

- Spyware Vaccine actively monitors activex registry entry and protects your PC against 30000+ spyware activex.

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Spyware Vaccine keeps Spyware ActiveX away from your registry and provides live detect for 30000+ spyware. When Spyware Vaccine detect spyware it will show the spyware list by name then you could removal quickly. If you are using Spyware Vaccine, Spyware ActiveX can not add itself to your PC registry, and dies.

Hard Drive Inspector is a powerful, effective and easy-to-use program that monitors hard drive health. The value of information stored on an average computer hard drive often exceeds the value of the computer itself. But a hard drive is one of the most unreliable internal computer devices. When it crashes (which happens quite frequently), the stored information will be lost fully or partially. Subsequent information recovery is either not possible at all, or constitutes a very sophisticated and expensive procedure that can be performed only by specialists.

AVG Anti-Virus has been protecting computers around the world for more than 10 years! AVG for workstations provide comprehensive antivirus protection for personal computers. The unique combination of detection methods (heueristic analysis, generic detection, scanning and integrity checking) ensures that your computer receives the maximum protection possible on multiple levels (Resident Shield, Email Scanner plug-ins, Personal Email Scanner, On-Demand and other tests, etc.). It is available as AVG Professional Single Edition for single workstation protection and AVG SoHo Edition (Small office - Home office) for home or small offices.

Highlights include:

- Automatic update functionality

- The AVG Resident Shield, which provides real-time protection as files are opened and programs are run

- The AVG E-mail Scanner, which protects your e-mail

- The AVG On-Demand Scanner, which allows the user to perform scheduled and manual tests

- The AVG heueristic analysing monitor

- Free Virus Database Updates for the lifetime of the product

- AVG Virus Vault for safe handling of infected files

- Great customer satisfaction!

AVG Anti-Virus plus Firewall

AVG Anti-Virus has been protecting computers around the world for more than 10 years! AVG for workstations provide comprehensive antivirus protection for personal computers. The unique combination of detection methods (heueristic analysis, generic detection, scanning and integrity checking) ensures that your computer receives the maximum protection possible on multiple levels (Resident Shield, Email Scanner plug-ins, Personal Email Scanner, On-Demand and other tests, etc.). It is available as AVG Professional Single Edition for single workstation protection and AVG SoHo Edition (Small office - Home office) for home or small offices.

Highlights include:

- Automatic update functionality

- The AVG Resident Shield, which provides real-time protection as files are opened and programs are run

- The AVG E-mail Scanner, which protects your e-mail

- The AVG On-Demand Scanner, which allows the user to perform scheduled and manual tests

- The AVG heueristic analysing monitor

- Free Virus Database Updates for the lifetime of the product

- AVG Virus Vault for safe handling of infected files

- Great customer satisfaction!

AVG Anti-Virus plus Firewall