Friday, January 7, 2011

Free antivirus software

Antivirus software is used to prevent or protect,delete and remove viruses which were affected to our computers. It will also prevent or protect and remove spyware,adware and other malwares, trojan horses.Antivirus or anti-virus software is used to prevent, detect, and remove computer viruses, worms, and trojan horses. It may also prevent and remove adware, spyware, and other forms of malware. This software used for the prevention and removal of such threats, rather than computer security implemented by software methods.

A variety of strategies are typically employed. Signature-based detection involves searching for known patterns of data within executable code. However, it is possible for a computer to be infected with new malware for which no signature is yet known. To counter such so-called zero-day threats, heuristics can be used. One type of heuristic approach, generic signatures, can identify new viruses or variants of existing viruses by looking for known malicious code, or slight variations of such code, in files. Some antivirus software can also predict what a file will do by running it in a sandbox and analyzing what it does to see if it performs any malicious actions.

Some very good antivirus software are

1. free.avg

2. avast

3. kaspersky

4. mcafee

5. symantec

6. eset

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