the drawbacks of FREEWARE AntiVirus Programs.

India
April 12, 2007 9:36am CST
"The free Avira lacks an email scanner; that's only available in the paid version. The self protection is also poor - it can be terminated with Windows Task manager. The free version also constantly nags you to upgrade. The Kaspersky-based AOL AVs lacks the html scanner found in the full Kaspersky product and consequently doesn't offer the same level of protection against hostile sites. It's also quite heavy on resources and is not suitable for slower PCs. AOL AVS can be terminated by a hostile agent as well AVG and Avast have poor detection of polymorphic and 0-day malware in addition to having limited self protection. BitDefender lacks a real time monitor as well as email scanning."
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@Impervious (1147)
• United States
12 Apr 07
I do not consider myself a techie by any means but the bottom line is that No single application is perfect. Interestingly enough I read an article yesterday at PC world.com in which they were saying that the current detection and removal processes that are being used by the anti-virus manufacturers are becoming increasingly ineffective. Anyhow I have an older system that I use for testing software and without getting too elaborate allow me to just say that what I introduced into the system was in fact detected and eliminated with AVAST. In regards to malware I think that the majority of systems are under protected. People need to realize that no single application does it all. I currently have 8 different spy ware tools. My top 4 are installed and the others are on disk for emergency detection and removal efforts.