9Antivirus

The official successor of Ashampoo AntiSpyWare and Ashampoo AntiVirus has been developed from scratch and combines the best of both technologies all in one solution. The comprehensive security solution protects your PC and your data from external threats and blocks viruses, trojans, worms, malware, rootkits, bots, spyware and adware efficiently

In addition, the software offers a variety of security tools (e.g. File Wiper, Internet Cleaner, Startup Tuner etc.) based on our price winning Ashampoo WinOptimizer series.

Here are some key features of “Ashampoo Anti-Malware”:
· Two integrated engines of renowned software producers offer advanced protection
· The onAccess guard offers maximum protection against all kind of threats
· Heuristic analysis designed to detect unknown threats
· Protection against more than 3.000.000 potential threats from the web
· Rootkit Detector 2: Improved protection against invisible threats

Real-time protection enables for considerably safer execution on driver level and takes care of the following Windows areas:
· BHO (Browser Helper Objects):
· Winsock-LSP (Layered Service Provider):
· Windows HOSTS file (anti pharming):
· Autostart entries:
· ActiveX installations:
· “Live” logging:

Improved Windows 7 compatible tools based on eleven years of experience in the field of utilities and our price winning Ashampoo WinOptimizer series:
· File Wiper:
· Internet Cleaner:
· Hostsfile Checker:
· ADS Scanner:
· Start-up Tuner:
· Process Manager:
· Rootkit Detector 2:
· LSP Viewer:
· Multi user support:
· Whitelist:
· Self protection:
· Scan administration:
· User-defined scans:

Requirements:
· 105 MB for the program files plus some additional space for backup files (minimal).

Limitations:
· 10 days trial period (can be extended with 30 additional days for free)

What’s New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Improved drivers (up to 50% less memory consumption)
· Improved pop-up menu (up to 66% less memory consumption)
· Slightly improved background guard performance
· Added updated signature files
· Fixed several minor problems

Posted in Antivirus Software, Freeware, Security News & Articles, Security Tools and Antivirus Software | September 2nd, 2010 |