What are some of the best, completely free software antivirus and modules available on the internet for download.
Avast Home Edition: this is a completely free, but one of the best applications available antivirues everywhere, to use non-commercial. You can download and save on their website (www.avast.com) free of charge. Home Edition Avast has a on-demand Scanner, on on-access scanner (to protect email clients, instant messengers, etc.). He also has a lightweight firewall and P2P protection. The NNTP Scanner can analyze all Usenet newsgroup traffic and all operations on files on PC. He also has a real-time protection function which is quite powerful. Program and database updates are also incredibly fast.
602LAN Suite (http://www.software602.com/products/ls/): this secure mail server has an integrated anti-virus and anti-spam guard. The firewall is supposed to control internet sharing and is equipped with NAT and Web content filtering proxy. It also features the server of SSL SMTP/POP3 mail standards based which allows encrypted communications, spam protection and an integrated fax server. Access for the mail client, address book shared, administration to distance and home user pages Web is provided by the built-in Web server. Other features include includes text content based Bayesian spam filter, mail Client Web with WAP support, attachments, content filtering, PureSight proxy filtering, network address translation, automatic update and ActiveReports.
AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic (http://www.free-av.com/): one of the few, but great free antiviru software available for download. AntiVir PersonalEdition is individual and private use on a single PC-workstation only, which can detect and remove viruses known more than 230,000. It has a resident Virus Guard which monitors the movement of file automatically as downloading data from the internet. It scans and repairs macro viruses and protects against the boot record virus and master boot record viruses, Trojans, worms and other malicious activities. You can easily update the database and support is free of charge through the Bulletin Board AntiVir (http://forum.antivir.de/).
AVG Free Edition: The free edition is available to users at home for personal use and non-commercial on a single computer. Even if it is limited in features from its professional counterpart, the AVG Free Edition includes some useful features like automatic healing, reliable, engine analysis, expected frequency scanning and Scheduled update frequency (twice a day only)updated Automatic Optional on the detection of the Internet Options to set the file name extensions. No technical support is also available.
Futureca Outlook virus: This is an add - on special designed specifically for Microsoft Outlook. It scans all messages in mail inbound and outbound virus in real-time and immediately alerts the user if it detects one. It is very useful if you are a regular user of Outlook, and the virus definition database can be easily updated on the internet. You can download it from [http://www.futureca.com/downloads.htm].
RAV4ICQ (http://www.ravantivirus.com/): it is a free antiviru program designed to be integrated in ICQ, one of the most popular instant messengers in the world. The program checks for and removes many types of viruses, worms, Trojan horses and other software. It is easily configurable and can analyze archives and take action for infected/suspect files and creates a log file for future reference.