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Ashura
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Avira AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic 7
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Avira AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic is a comprehensive, easy to use antivirus program, designed to offer reliable virus protection to home-users only.
Avira PersonalEdition Classic constantly and rapidly scans your computer for malicious programs (such as viruses, Trojans, backdoor programs, hoaxes, worms, dialers etc.), monitoring every action executed by the user or by the operating system and being able to react promptly when a malicious program is detected. Actions include repair, delete, block, rename and quarantine programs or files.
Avira PersonalEdition Classic also features enhanced protection against unknown boot-sector viruses, issuing alerts for boot sectors suspicious formats. Through the permanent update of the detection engine, the protection is ensured constantly: the user can set the product to download any updates when available, thus keeping you clean and safe.
Avira offers:
· Extensive Malware Recognition of viruses, Trojans, backdoor programs, worms, etc.
· Automatic incremental updates of antivirus signatures, engine and entire software
· Permanent virus protection, with Virus Guard real time monitoring
· Install and configuration in just a couple of steps, setup to protect your PC in minutes
· Virus protection against known and unknown threats, using an advanced heuristic system
· Scheduler where you can set the scanner to make automatic virus scans or updates on your system
· Forum and phone support, Knowledge Base with virus descriptions available on web site
It also performs Internet updates, and daily opens a window, with an advertisement suggesting the user to purchase AntiVir PersonalEdition Premium
Requirements:
· Pentium I, 133 MHz or better; 30 MB of free HDD; 20 MB of free RAM

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AVG Free Edition 7
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AVG Free Edition is the well-known anti-virus protection tool. AVG Free is available free-of-charge to home users for the life of the product!
Rapid virus database updates are available for the lifetime of AVG Free Edition, providing a high-level of detection capability that millions of users around the world trust to protect their PCs. AVG Free is easy-to-use and will not slow your system down (low system resource requirements).
Here are some key features of "AVG Free Edition":
· 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
· Free Virus Database Updates for the lifetime of the product
· AVG Virus Vault for safe handling of infected files
· Great customer satisfaction!
· Please note that any previous version of AVG Free will be un-installed automatically during the installation of the new AVG Free.
Limitations:
· AVG Free Edition is available free-of-charge to home users! AVG Free Edition is for private, non-commercial, single home computer use only. Use of AVG Free Edition within any organization or for commercial purposes is strictly prohibited.
· AVG Free cannot be installed on server operating systems (such as Windows Server 2003), nor can it be used for the scanning of network drives
· Scheduling options in the AVG Free Edition are very limited (only one scheduled update per day, one scheduled scan per day etc.)
· AVG Free Edition does not offer advanced testing options, such as automatic healing, password-protected archives reporting, adjustment of scan process priority and many others.

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Avast! Home Edition 4.7
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avast! 4 Home Edition is a free complete ICSA certified antivirus software for home noncommercial use.
avast! obtained VB100% awards in 2002/3 Virus Bulletin comparative reviews under Windows XP Pro and under Windows 2000 Advanced Server.
avast! Home Edition includes the following components:
- On Demand Scanner - with Skinnable Simple Interface - just select what do you want to scan in which way and press the Play button.
- On Access Scanner - resident scanning of all files being opened, read and written and behavior blocker monitoring dangerous actions of viruses.
- E-mail scanner easily integrates with most mail clients and it checks both incoming and outgoing mails, it provides heuristic analysis of mail content to protect against new Worms.
- Boot Time Scanner - scans disks in the same way and in the same time as Windows CHKDSK does (on NT/2000/XP only).
- Explorer Scanner - right click on the object allows you to scan it.
- Screen Saver Scanner - integrates with your Screen Saver to scan PC during your coffee breaks.
- Virus Chest - safety isolated folder to store infected, suspicious and even some system files - to restore them.
Protect your system and valuable data against computer viruses with Avast! Home Edition.
Our true incremental updates are based on iAVS technology and they are available for
 virus definition file update and for program upgrade.
You can download and install updates by simple clicking on the iAVS icon, it can be checked and done automatically when you are On-line.
The update files of size under 100 KB are available at least twice a week and within couple of hours in the case of emergency of new virus. They are automatically downloaded, installed and loaded to avast! without restart or logoff.
Limitations:
· 60 days trial evaluation

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my personal favorite of this 3 is avast    , as i see publics choice winner is avira but every1 can try em alone and see which is best for his system, atleast they are for free... 
Ashura
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BitDefender 8 Free Edition
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Features
-Virus scanning and removal
-Scheduled scanning
The Scheduler lets you plan ahead, and schedule full system/drive scans in the off hours, when you won’t be using your computer.
-Immediate scanning
With just a right click you can check your files and folders.
-Skinable interface
You can express yourself, designing new interfaces, or you can use those drawn by others.
-Quarantine
By isolating the infected files in quarantine, the risk of getting infected diminishes. You also have the possibility to send these files for further analysis to BitDefender Labs.
-Reports
When launching a scan you may choose to create a report file where you can see statistics about the scan process.
System requirements:
Pentium MMX 200 Mhz or higher processor
Minimum 64MB of RAM Memory (128MB recommended)
Minimum 40MB available hard disk space
Operating platform: Windows 98/NT-SP6/Me/2000/XP IE 4.0(+)

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ClamWin Free Antivirus
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ClamWin is a Free Antivirus for Microsoft Windows 98/Me/2000/XP and 2003.
 
ClamWin Free Antivirus comes with an easy installer and open source code. You may download and use it absolutely free of charge. It features:
High detection rates for viruses and spyware;
Scanning Scheduler;
Automatic downloads of regularly updated Virus Database.
Standalone virus scanner and right-click menu integration to Microsoft Windows Explorer;
Addin to Microsoft Outlook to remove virus-infected attachments automatically.
The latest version of Clamwin Free Antivirus is 0.88.5
Please note that ClamWin Free Antivirus does not include an on-access real-time scanner. You need to manually scan a file in order to detect a virus or spyware.
ClamWin Free Antivirus includes Clam AntiVirus engine and uses the GNU General Public License by the Free Software Foundation and is free (as in freedom) software.

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Comodo Antivirus 1.1 beta
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Detects and eliminates viruses from desktops and networks
Constantly protects with real-time On Access scanning online
Proactive Heuristic analysis intercepts unknown threats
Daily, automatic updates of virus definitions
Isolates suspicious files in quarantine preventing infection
 
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Comodo AntiVirus 1.1 beta, all subsequent beta versions and the final release version will each be available free to both home and business users
System Requirements
Windows XP (SP2) / Windows 2000 (SP4 or later)
50 MB available space on your hard drive
128 MB RAM
Intel Pentium 300 MHz processor (or equivalent)
Note - Not compatible with Windows 9x systems

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Meka][Meka
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baring in mind, that avast home edition can be registered for free, and you are given 14month....
Ashura
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Quoted from Meka][Meka
baring in mind, that avast home edition can be registered for free, and you are given 14month....

once u renew the account after the first 14 months its turning into permanent life account