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By : F-Secure Corporation |
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F Secure which is one of the oldest antivirus and internet security solution provider, wasn’t known among many. Many didn’t even knew whether there was something named F Secure antivirus or F Secure Internet Security existed. But since the last two years, it has been a popular antivirus and internet security solution provider. The main reason is because its Advanced Mobile Security software. It was chosen as the best Mobile Security Software for the year 2009. Since after that, many started using its Antivirus and Internet Security software and claimed that F Secure is one of the strongest antivirus or internet security solution provider in the current market. The three best features that we found on F Secure Antivirus 2010 are :
1. Deep Guard 2.0 :
This is a very useful feature found in F Secure Antivirus 2010. What it does is, it monitors your PC’s behavior, and system changes simultaneously. Any quick change done by the virus is detected and reported to you. And upon your decision it deletes or uninstall’s the software or virus that does such kinds of suspicious activities. Also it checks your system processes and analyzes what currently running items take most of your memory and analyzes them to check whether its caused by a infection by a virus or any other suspicious malware.
2. Fast- Advanced Scan :
The file and folder scanning system of F Secure is really advanced. There are many new advanced features included in the scanning module of the 2010 version Some of those new advanced features are, layer scanning, zip archive scanning and ghost scanning. The best feature is the ghost scan. It scans your PC silently (like a spy you can say) without making a notifications to virus that a scan is running on the moment. Most keyloggers tend to uninstall them self at the time of a scan and viruses merge with know files to get rid of getting detected. With this scanning option there is no way a virus is easily left undetected.
3. Advanced Heuristics :
Many antivirus software’s come with a normal Heuristics Engine. In F Secure Antivirus 2010, the engine is enhanced with the smart intelegence module so it works more accurate and doesn’t gives you false alarms. Also the function of Heuristics Engine is to detect viruses that are new and are not available in your virus database. How it does is it scans the scripts of the virus file and matches it with the scripts in your Heuristics Engine. Its simply like matching DNA. And if scripts match then the file is considers as a virus.
Summery :
Overall, F Secure Antivirus 2010 is a complete strong antivirus software that can protect your PC from various viruses, spywares or other kinds of malware’s. Also keeping your files protected and monitoring your system behavior for suspicious activities is a promise of F Secure Antivirus 2010.
System Requirements :
- Intel 2.0+ Ghz, 512MB RAM+ (For Best Performance)
- About 375 MB free space on the hard drive (the exact number depends on antivirus database size)
- Internet connection (for product activation)
- Windows Xp Professional (32/64), Windows Vista (32/64), Windows 7 (32/64)

