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On demand Scanning Freeware AntiVirus Comparison
This article compares the three freeware AntiVirus products currently available.

External Study Rankings:
All external studies referenced here, unanimously rank the on demand scanners in this order:

1. AntiVir
2. Avast
3. AVG

Notes
1 Compares Pro Versions which have identical or nearly identical detection as freeware versions
2 Offers boot scan disinfect; New Beta Version 7 offers immediate disinfect
3 Can detect but cannot disinfect
4 If configured with /AH option in scheduler; New Beta Version 4 has autoupdating feature
5 No major difference in Performance
6 Windows Server OSs are not supported in the freeware version

[edit] Products Compared

[edit] AntiVir

http://www.free-av.com/

PersonalEdition Classic

Parallel to the new AntiVir PersonalEdition Premium there is still as a matter of course the popular and known cost-free AntiVir PersonalEdition freeware. Only the name and the colour are new: The cost-free virus protection is called as AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic now.

Coming Soon ....The Avira Rootkit Beta

[edit] Avast Personal Edition v 4.5

http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html

avast! 4 Home Edition is a full-featured antivirus package designed exclusively for home users and non-commercial use. Both of these conditions should be met! Our company offers the Home Edition free of charge, since, in our opinion, it is possible to avoid global virus spreading by efficient prevention; however, many user are not able to or do not want to pay for antivirus software. This page will show you the most important features of this program.

Institutions (even non-commercial ones) are not allowed to use avast! Home Edition. However, ALWIL Software provides the full line of avast! antivirus products at special discount prices for non-profit, charity, educational and government institutions. Please see our price lists for details.

Major Features at a Glance:

• Automatic updating
• ADS Scanning
• Simplified User Interface
• Virus Chest (Quarantine Folder)
• Resident protection
• System integration (Boot-time scan support)
• P2P and IM Shields
• Integrated Virus Cleaner
• Network Shield (Intrusion Detection System (IDS) component that protects against WORM attacks)
• 64-bit Windows Support
• Web Shield (Filters http traffic for malware threats)
• Multi-Language User Interface
  
  

[edit] AVG

http://www.grisoft.com/doc/289/lng/us/tpl/tpl01

Availability

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.

[edit] Features Compared

[edit] On-demand archive disinfection

Disinfection of archives and nested archives on demand is an important feature. Archives include zip files. Nesting refers to archives which are contained within archives (e.g. a zip file within a zip file). "On demand" refers to the real-time ability of disinfecting archives when received.

Archives can be in various formats and can be nested to various depths and these aspects are explored in the more detailed Technical Comparison.

[edit] On-demand scanning

[edit] Archive scanning

[edit] Autoupdating

[edit] Autoscheduling

[edit] Resource usage

This performance consideration compared how much computer resources are used.

All three products use minimal resources and no major difference in performance was observed.

[edit] Email scanning

[edit] Scans in Safe Mode

[edit] GUI Design

[edit] Supported OSs

[edit] Technical Comparison