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AntiVir

AntiVir's main window is clean and spare; it performs a quick system scan on launch, and this caught a number of Trojans and other threats in memory.

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AntiVir's main window is clean and spare; it performs a quick system scan on launch, and this caught a number of Trojans and other threats in memory.

Antivir Main

AntiVir's spare main window focuses on the task of scanning for viruses.

Antivir System Test

Before launching the main program, AntiVir scans the system to ensure no viruses are lurking in memory.

AntiVir Guard

The AntiVir Guard module provides a detailed view of just what the on-access scanner is doing.

AntiVir Configuration

AntiVir Guard can be configured to block unwanted programs such as spyware and adware; however, not all of these options are turned on by default.

AntiVir Configuration

You can configure AntiVir to try repairing infected files and to delete those that can't be repaired, but there is no option to simply quarantine them.

AntiVir Scheduler

AntiVir's schedule can schedule system scans and definition updates, as well as launching other programs.

AntiVir Recognition List

The Recognition List provides a searchable list of those threats recognized by AntiVir's scanner.

AntiVir Scanning

AntiVir's retro-look scanning window sports the title "Luke Filewalker".

AntiVir Scanned

This slightly peculiar window reports the results of an AntiVir scan--fortunately this system was clean.

AntiVir Spyware

When AntiVir's scan of system memory detects a threat, it will offer to delete it.

AntiVir Reboot

If AntiVir can't delete the threat found in memory (as was often the case) it will recommend a reboot.

AntiVir Virus Found

Depending on its configuration, AntiVir can ask you what to do when a threat is found during a full scan.

AntiVir Spyware

AntiVir's Guard module offers to quarantine or securely overwrite found threats; oddly, the on-demand scanner does not.

AntiVir Web Security Guard

AntiVir warns of certain malicious activities like home-page hijacking, but here it's blocking its own efforts to reverse a hijack.
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