Ad-Aware Free Antivirus Alternatives and Similar Apps

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avast! Free Antivirus

Free* by ALWIL Software |
Mac, Windows, Linux

The world’s most popular antivirus software. Space demand on the hard disk: 153 MB. Our avast! Free Antivirus often outperforms our competitors paid-for products and is the minimum protection anyone should...

Security & Privacy antivirus, anti-spyware, malware-remover
+1 more malware-detector
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Microsoft Security Essentials

Free by Microsoft |
Windows

Microsoft Security Essentials provides real-time protection for your home PC that guards against viruses, spyware, and other malicious software. Space demand on the hard disk: only 17.63 MB. Microsoft...

Security & Privacy security, antivirus, anti-spyware, virus-scanner
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Avira Free Antivirus

Free* by Avira |
Windows, Linux

Avira Free Antivirus offers basic protection for your computer against dangerous viruses, worms, spy-ware, trojans and costly dialers. Avira Antivirus Premium includes MailGuard (POP3 and SMTP) and...

Security & Privacy security, antivirus, anti-rootkit
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AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition

Free* by AVG Technologies |
Windows

The most popular download on CNET, AVG Free provides basic antivirus and antispyware protection for home users. Virus database updated every day. Includes innovative LinkScanner for web-protection. Biggest...

Security & Privacy security, antivirus, anti-spyware, spyware
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ESET NOD32 Antivirus

Commercial by ESET |
Mac, Windows, Linux

ESET NOD32 Antivirus is the most effective protection you can find to combat todays huge volumes of Internet and email threats. It provides comprehensive antivirus and antispyware protection without affecting...

Security & Privacy antivirus, anti-spyware, anti-rootkit
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COMODO Internet Security

Freemium by Comodo Security Solutions |
Windows

Comodo Internet Security is a free, very voluminous and multi-layered security application that keeps hackers out and personal information in. If you prefer a smaller solution with Antivirus Protection only:...

Security & Privacy firewall, antivirus, internet-security, anti-spyware
+4 more sandbox, anti-malware, anti-trojan, hips
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ClamAV

Open Source |
Windows, Linux

Clam AntiVirus is an open source (GPL) anti-virus toolkit for UNIX, designed especially for e-mail scanning on mail gateways. It provides a number of utilities including a flexible and scalable multi-threaded...

Security & Privacy security, antivirus, email-scanning
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Kaspersky Anti-Virus

Commercial by Kaspersky Lab |
Mac, Windows, Linux

Kaspersky Anti-Virus offers protection from a range of IT threats and provides the basic tools needed to keep your PC secure. Kaspersky lets you surf the web safely and keeps your PC free of viruses, Internet...

Security & Privacy security, antivirus, vulnerability
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ClamWin

Open Source by ClamWin |
Windows

[Please note that ClamWin Free Antivirus does not include an on-access real-time scanner. You need to manually scan a file in order to detect a virus or spyware.] ClamWin Free Antivirus comes with an easy...

Security & Privacy portable Available also in a portable version: http://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/clamwin_portable, antivirus, virus-scanner, no-real-time
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Lookout Mobile Security

Freemium by Lookout |
iPhone, iPad, Android

Lookout combines enterprise grade security with end user simplicity, protecting your device and data from a variety of threats facing mobile devices including: loss, theft, viruses, malware, and hackers.

Security & Privacy antivirus, mobile-security, locate-phone
+3 more find-my-phone, mobile-backup, contacts-backup
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VirusTotal Uploader

Free by VirusTotal |
Windows

Virus Total Uploader enables you to directly send files from your system, also using the context menu. To upload a file to VirusTotal, you can visit the main analysis site, click the Browse button to...

Security & Privacy antivirus, virus-scanner, context-menu, infected
+3 more virustotal, send-to, virus-total
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Panda Cloud Antivirus

Free* by Panda Security |
Windows

Panda Cloud Antivirus is a cloud-based light anti-virus, providing protection against new viruses without installing any updates because it protects through the cloud.

Security & Privacy security, antivirus, spyware, anti-spyware, rootkit
+3 more adware, antirootkit, panda
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Avira Antivir Premium

Commercial by Avira |
Windows

Avira AntiVir Premium reliably protects you against all threats from viruses, worms, trojans, rootkits, phishings, adware, spyware, bots, and dangerous “drive-by” downloads. Best detection rates and top-class...

Office & Productivity, Security & Privacy firewall, spyware, pop3, freebsd, trojan, dialer, adware
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Hitman Pro

Freemium by SurfRight |
Windows

Hitman Pro is an on-demand malware scanner and removal tool. It will usually do a full-system scan significantly faster than other (traditional) solutions due to its cloud-based scan technique. It does not...

Security & Privacy portable can be installed or used in portable mode, security, antivirus, spyware, anti-spyware
+9 more rootkit, adware, anti-malware, cloud-antivirus, cloud-antimalware, hitman, tdl, tdl3, tdl4
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avast! Internet Security

Commercial by ALWIL Software |
Windows

avast! Internet Security - the best choise: Active internet users need greater protection for themselves as they shop and bank on-line. To secure against threats from infected web sites and the growing risk...

Security & Privacy antivirus, internet-security, sandbox
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Dr.Web Anti-virus

Commercial by Doctor Web |
Mac, Windows, Android, Linux

Key features * Detection and neutralization of malware on hard drives, removable data storage devices and in RAM * Real-time interception of calls to files on hard and floppy drives,...

Security & Privacy security, antivirus, anti-spyware, anti-rootkit
+1 more anti-trojan
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COMODO Antivirus

Freemium by Comodo Group, Inc. |
Windows

100% Free Antivirus Software eliminates viruses, spyware, and other malware from desktops and networks. Obliterate viruses and malware without hogging your PCs resources: Detects, blocks, and destroys...

Security & Privacy antivirus, internet-security, mail-protection
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Norton Internet Security

Commercial by Symantec |
Windows

Norton Internet Security anti virus software from Symantec offers protection against the latest online threats such as hackers, phishing, spyware protection and much more.

Security & Privacy security, antivirus, anti-spyware, security-suite
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ClamTk Virus Scanner

Open Source by Dave M |
Linux

ClamTk is a graphical user interface (GUI) for using the Clam AntiVirus program. It is designed to be an easy-to-use, on-demand scanner for Linux systems.

Security & Privacy antivirus, frontend, virus-scanner, clamav-frontend
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Immunet FREE Antivirus

Freemium by Immunet Corp. |
Windows

Immunet FREE Antivirus is the lightest anti-virus application, providing the fast protection against new viruses, because it protects through the cloud using the ClamAV engine. Install/Hardisk-Filesize: 5/10...

Security & Privacy security, antivirus, spyware, virus-scanner
+4 more cloud-based, anti-rootkit, web-protection, cloud-antivirus