Avast has launched Avast Antivirus 6.0. The new version has a lot of improvements and features. New features include:
- AutoSandbox – execute suspicious files in an environment isolated from your system
- Website reputation system (WebRep) – community-based gauge that informs you of what other avast! users think of the website you’re visiting
- Three scan modes available in the new version- three regular ones (Quick, Full and on demand) as well as the possibility to check removable drives
The avast! antivirus is available for download free of cost for all. This is one AV tool which comes with tons of features and still offered as free.
Download avast! antivirus 6.0
Microsoft has been working for a long time now in giving a good and reliable antivirus platform for all users. And when I say “for all users” I mean a free one. Seems that the dream is about to become true today: Microsoft Security Essentials will be release to the public as the free antivirus solution from Microsoft.
Microsoft Security Essentials will be replacing Windows Live OneCare as the security suite for viruses and malware. The suite can be installed in Windows XP, Vista and 7; and seems that already has a good review about the protection you can achieve, by giving you a shield for 97,8% of the existing malware in the web.
On the other side, some of the other reviews this antivirus platform has received so far say that the engine inside it is a little bit slow and intrusive with other applications.
And of course, leaders from other security solutions already are trying to tear this solution down, like McAfee: “will compete against other free solutions by offering limited security functionality”; or Symantec saying it is a “thin defense” and not giving you any type of antispam or identity safeguards.
Let people decide then.
