All of us are familiar with the freaky viruses and the much needed antiviruses. Since 1970, when the first virus ‘Creeper’ was detected on ARPANET to now in the age 2k that’s almost 4 decades have passed and both the rivals viruses and antivirus have got variety and effectiveness. Viruses, on one hand have became devastating on the other hand antiviruses have became bulky and slow processing. That’s right; the antiviruses that are most popular now viz. Norton, McAfee have became effective but also have grown huge. They need a lot of space for installation and also consume a lot of RAM, which slows down your pc and finally hangs up. With the time, the virus programs have become compact and more destructive whereas the savior i.e. the antivirus have grown bigger.
In order to compete with the bulky savior programs, in recent years competitors launched small, compact and very effective antivirus programs which are able to do the same job as the old ones did. And the most amazing fact…..These antivirus programs are free of cost and can be updated regularly from the respective websites.
This has made everyone to think, should they go with the traditional ones or opt for these nano sized compact programs. One who wants to spend no money can download these free antiviruses from websites and keep safe their PCs from the viruses, malwares, Trojan horses……and the list goes on.
The best propriety antivirus software available in market are : Norton Antivirus, Panda Security, Zone Alarm, McAfee Virus Scan, avast!(professional), Kaspersky Anti-Virus and many more. These are although very much acceptable but due to the excess of facilities they provide, firewalls, certain shields and huge data base of viruses to detect them makes them really very huge. The latest version of Norton after installation requires about 1 gb or more space. And whenever your system starts, there are so many startup processes linked with these programs itself that your computer reaches nearly to hang blocking many other applications. So, what’s the way to solve the problem? Very simple….Just upgrade your ram. Ohhh….looks like to me it could be expensive. So, the other way…just uninstall that and try using the freeware applications. The free antivirus softwares….
The best and most effective freeware antivirus programs available on the web which are free to download and supports free online updation…..Saves a lot of your RAM and your computer runs smoother than ever.
- Best of them are…Avira AntiVir Personal – Free Antivirus
- Nagware; not free for business use
- AVG Anti-Virus Free
- Registerware(not for business purpose)
- Avast! Home
- Registerware; not free for business use
- Bitdefender
- Note: the free version does not provide real time scanning
- Comodo AntiVirus
- Free for business use
- F-PROT
- Note: works on Linux, FreeBSD and DOS only
- PC Tools AntiVirus Free Edition
- Rising Antivirus Free Edition
The future of these free wares seems to be bright. And no wonder if it overtakes the market of shareware versions. They are small sized, easily available, easy updation at NO COST!!!
