Excellent Free NOD32 alternative with easy to track Reports~~

Pros: -I've been using Antivir PE Classic for my PC since 7.x having learnt the NOD32 2.7 enterprise license from the company I work for won't cover NOD32 3.0 or Eset SS, presuming there will be limited support for the outdated version

-Unbroken chain of Advanced+ adwards from AV-Comparatives for On-Demand scans

-Automatically upgraded to 8.0 and then 8.1 without interference with the stability and integrity of the WinXP registry

-Easy to Schedule weekly scans and cleans

-Comprehensive reports make it easy to track malware alerts and specific updated files during automatic updates

-For more than a year Antivir PE has been getting along very well with Threatfire, Windows Defender and Firewall, IE7, and other XP SP2+ built-in security mechanisms

Cons: -Splash Screen on Windows Start-up

-Nag Screen after definition or programme updates

-Unable to set default action for real-time AV Guard and require a user to choose action from a list

-For these reasons I cannot recommend or install any copy of this excellent product to the Machines of my friends' who asked for my help. Since I am not prepared to advice them via phone or house calls whenever a Nag Screen or a Malware Alert pops out from any of their screens

Posted: 27-Jul-2008 09:01:22 AM

5 Stars for the built-in ad-blocker; -2 Stars for the core (WinXP)

Pros: -Excellent ad-blocker which blocks all adverts in download-dot-com, Yahoo, msn and more; outperformed the one in Norton Internet Security 2005

-No false-positives during the 3-day testing period

-Allows a user to choose to or not to incorporate Sophos Antivirus during installation

Cons: -Uses quite a bit of RAM and CPU resources

-Causes occasional Blue-Screen-Of-Death in WinXP Home SP2 even when all "competitors" like Nod32, Comodo Firewall Pro, Counterspy and Windows Defender were removed

Posted: 06-Oct-2007 07:44:21 AM

Made my fan a lot quieter~~

Pros: -Very clean menu based GUI

-Can fix registry, tweak system settings, immunise spysites, etc by one single click whilst a user can also choose to perform only one specific area of repair; or even engage in entry-specific corrects

-Out of the box optimisations like disabling error reporting, visual effects; limiting dnscache and a lot more

-Added over 30,000 advert sites strings to IE7 Restricted Zone whilst to my surprise, did not slow down the start-up of the browser at all

-Clean-up invalid, ophaned or useless registry entries

-Smartram flushes system processes to pagefile during usage peak

Cons: -Made Yahoo! my default IE7 search engine without seeking my consent; which is a fundamental breach of security and privacy and for that alone I took 1 Star away from my rating. I won't be so lenient should that occur in the next release I guarantee.

Posted: 31-Jul-2008 11:48:19 AM