Keeps viruses, hackers, trojans, worms, spyware, rootkits and other online threats away from your computer. Capable of scanning email attachments and providing its own process manager.
Guardian Antivirus provides complete protection against viruses, online threats and spam to keep your important data and your operating system safe. The program comes with a very user-friendly interface and some extra handy tools, to help you keep your PC running like new.
The one unique feature of the program is its pre-install virus scanner, which can check your PC and hard drives for viruses even before installing the antivirus tool. Besides, its online protection tools will warn you before opening any malicious or harmful site while you are browsing the web or using any search engine. Its built-in e-mail scanner protects your PC from viruses and Trojan horses that may enter your system along with e-mail attachments. Finally, its advanced DNA technology can search for viruses in the root directories of your PC. Overall, the program protects your computer from every possible gateway viruses can use.
Apart from these common features, Guardian Antivirus can offer you much more. The autorun protector saves your PC from viruses coming from USB pen drives and autorun CDs. The tracks eraser that comes with it can wipe your entire web history, together with all your cookies, passwords and Windows recent files history, to provide you with complete privacy for your work, and to prevent key loggers and hackers from stealing your passwords and credit card details. The program also has a process manager to help you identify easily any suspicious programs running on your PC. The detailed reports available help you find out which file was scanned for viruses and what actions were taken by the program against infections.
Shortly, Guardian Antivirus is a full-featured protection tool against viruses with some handy extra tools that will help you protect your data from unwanted hands. However, note that the program may ask you to remove any existing antivirus program from your PC before installation.
v11.0 [Jan 21, 2010]
- Entertainment mode has been introduced. Using Entertainment
mode you will be able to play games, watch movies and use any
entertainment software without any interference by Guardian
and without reducing security of your computer.
- To improve security against malwares, Guardian has come up
with Self Defense feature. Malwares are now targeting AntiVirus
and security softwares by deleting their important files,
registry entries. Guardian files, folders & registry entries
will be now protected. User, Malware or any other application
will not be able to tamper Guardian files, folders and
registry entries.
- Web Browsing Protection has been introduced to prevent infections
from malicious websites.
- Guardian will now automatically detect newly mounted removable
drives (e.g. Pen drive, USB Hard Drives etc.) and prompt you to
scan the drives.
- Guardian Autorun Protection has been introduced to manage
autorun functionality of the PC and removable drives.
- Malware files are often packed with different packers. Guardian
identifies different packers and also gives option to filter files
based on packers used to pack them. You can also block
access/execution of files packed by particular packer.
- Guardian 2010 consumes very less memory compared to last
version. This helps to improve performance of your system by
taking less system resources.
