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Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE)

Free by Microsoft | Link to website

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 Essentials is a free* download from Microsoft that is simple to install, easy to use, and always kept up to date so you can be assured your PC is protected by the latest technology. *Your PC must run genuine Windows to install Microsoft Security Essentials. It’s easy to tell if... More info »

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avast! Free Antivirus

Free* by ALWIL Software |
Mac, Windows, Android, Linux

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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, outlook, anti-spyware, thunderbird
+3 more malware-remover, malware-detector, antispy
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Avira Free Antivirus

Free* by Avira |
Windows, Linux

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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

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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

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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

Free* by Comodo Security Solutions |
Windows

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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

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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

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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

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[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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ESET Smart Security

Commercial by ESET |
Windows

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ESET Smart Security adds a firewall and antispam technology to ESET NOD32 Antivirus, protecting your family from Internet threats while blocking annoying junk email. ESET Smart Security 4 sports an easier to...

security, security-suite
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Panda Cloud Antivirus

Free* by Panda Security |
Windows

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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

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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

Free* by SurfRight |
Windows

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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, antispyware
+9 more rootkit, adware, anti-malware, cloud-antimalware, hitman, tdl, tdl3, tdl4, cloud-antivirus
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avast! Internet Security

Commercial by ALWIL Software |
Windows

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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

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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

Free* by Comodo Group, Inc. |
Windows

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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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Sophos Antivirus

Commercial by Sophos Plc |
Mac, Windows

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Sophos Antivirus offers virus protection and anti-spam for businesses, schools, and government agencies.

Security & Privacy antivirus, firewall, spam, data-protection
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Norton AntiVirus

Commercial by Symantec Corporation |
Mac, Windows

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Norton AntiVirus is an antivirus suite developed by Symantec Corporation, with a focus on providing malware and exploit protection. It is compatible with the Microsoft Windows and Macintosh OS X operating...

Security & Privacy security, antivirus, anti-spyware, spyware
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Kingsoft Antivirus

Free by Kingsoft Internet Security |
Windows

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Kingsoft Antivirus 2012 is a completely free antivirus solution for detecting, cleaning trojan virus, and protect your computer. It can be a standalone product, and can also work along with other AV. ...

Security & Privacy antivirus, anti-trojan, scan-for-vulnerabilities
+3 more real-time-protection, anti-phishing, anti-hacker
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F-Secure Anti-Virus

Commercial by F-Secure |
Windows

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F-Secure Anti-Virus provides advanced protection against viruses, spyware intrusions and infected e-mail so you can surf the Web without worrying about security issues. Its automatic updates and powerful...

Security & Privacy anti-virus
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Ad-Aware Free Antivirus

Free* by Lavasoft |
Windows

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Ad-Aware Free Antivirus+ combines the legendary Anti-spyware engine with a super fast, free Antivirus. It now features download protection (blocks malicious files before being written to disk), sandboxing...

Security & Privacy antivirus, firewall, internet-security, anti-spyware
+6 more anti-malware, silent-mode, heuristic, sandboxing, real-time-protection, mail-protection

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