F-Secure Anti-Virus 2008

Software Description: With F-Secure© Anti-Virus 2008, you can open e-mail attachments and use your computer without any fear of virus infections, spyware intrusion or malicious programs that can take over your computer. In addition, F-Secure DeepGuard™ technology constantly monitors the very heart of your computer, ensuring that no malicious programs can take over your computer even if you do not have all the latest updates.

The Good: Due to the targeted fast spreading attacks on the Internet today, it is essential to protect your computer not only against viruses and spyware, but also against any suspicious activity that might be a sign of danger in your computer. F-Secure® Anti-Virus 2008 originates from the Kaspersky kernel technology but with better efficiency in the anti-virus, especially in the latest internet intrusion and programs. If you are suffering so much and so worried about the crash, you have the best solution in front of you. The evaluation from PC Utilites will tell you that it is a truth that F-Secure® Anti-Virus 2008 once won Kaspersky in every aspect.

The Bad: It will be better that it is able to support all windows. Because its evaluation version is not compatible with my system, I have to bother to find another kind of system to try it. I feel not so good even it is not bad. In addition, it has too many processes to upload, up to fifteen ones. Maybe you will think that it is a big number. It is a little complex to do several operations at the same time so you have to get help from the instruction.

The Bottom Line: F-Secure® Anti-Virus 2008 is a little bit better than Kaspersky due to its distributing firewall technology, which inspired Kaspersky Lab to enlarge its virus database in order to get its first rank back. Although Kaspersky made it, it still shows that F-Secure® Anti-Virus 2008 is a nice choice for the common users who do not need so many databases to support.

F-Secure® Anti-Virus 2008 contains strong virus detection and prevention in real time. The virus detection and prevention system includes four main monitoring engines, such as Orion, Libra, AVP and Draco. That is why it has as many as fifteen processes, but which does not cover too much memory and is minimized to small effect to your PC speed. Furthermore, it helps when there is an engine failing to work and the others can replace it and keep working. So the bad won’t be anything to affect us to use it since the memory it covers is not the only thing for us to judge its capacity.

Feature set

Single item scanning is available with this software. You can use your computer under your control and without interrupts from the day you have got the F-Secure® Anti-Virus 2008. It can completely protect your PC from the viruses, worms, unknown attacks and other future threats with daily automatically updated virus information from world-renowned F-Secure Data Security Laboratory and F-Secure DeepGuard TM technology. Secretly installed software on your computer will be detected and removed by F-Secure Anti-Virus and the feature is better than ever before, which will ensure that your system is running smoothly and free of spyware. Release frequency is very high to the database update. You can start more than two functions simultaneously due to its CounterSign Technology. Gatekeeper is definitely another fantastic function to detect dynamic viruses. It will auto-start when you are visiting any files in your PC to scanning the viruses at any moment. It can find out any dynamic viruses even the mutation and encrypted ones. Its language support can satisfy many people in different countries.

Ease of use

The prominent trait of F-Secure® Anti-Virus 2008 is the CounterSign Technology, which realizes the diversification of functions in the same time and scans your PC more efficiently. So you don’t have to start too many functions and it will do it automatically. With a very intuitive interface, you have clear view on all the functions and get quick access to them. Every step is with instruction leading you to remove everything harmful to your PC. The built-in removal function will get you out of the numerous popup to deal with.

Effectiveness

F-Secure® Anti-Virus 2008 is ranked in the top position as a effective anti-virus tool in the whole world. Its four main engines and first-class technology makes it to be one of the quickly and completely excellent PC cleaners. Some problems did exist with its on-access scanner. The test system we used is pretty fast but the on-access scanner would sometimes bring this system to a halt when opening programs or moving files.

Updates

F-Secure® Anti-Virus 2008 found an average of ten new viruses and spyware are found each day and the rate continues to grow. To be beneficial to its users, F-Secure® Anti-Virus 2008 offers a collection of all downloadable material available on their sites. You can check for your own updates any time with easy access in every aspect. Some of them can be done automatically. All updates require restart and some of them are little complicated which are only available to the existing customers.

Help/Documentation

The download support of F-Secure® Anti-Virus 2008 is useful and easy to get. Its update tutorial and links are very convenient. “How to” section, Product FAQ, eStore Support and more can be found with ease. Within the program itself, a product manual is offered. Phone support and email are available in the site. We can notice that the overall layout of the site is not so user-friendly, which is unorderly and has no fun.

Ease of Installation

Installation of F-Secure Antivirus is running at a general speed with ease. Updates and restart are necessary during the installation and it will take a few minutes to completely finish it.

Summary

The comprehensive ability of F-Secure® Anti-Virus 2008 can possibly be considered to be the first one though it still has its Bug. It has too many uploading but it good enough at anti-virus for keeping you PC furthest in safety. What the memory loses can be complemented by the safety. Integrated functions are very powerful too, including antivirus, firewall, program monitoring, IE protection, anti-spyware, intrusion prevention and more, which is stable in the functioning.