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So, you have all heard of virus programs and the havoc that they cause when they attack your system and almost lets your system useless. You also know how viruses can work in stealth mode and can steal the information about the data you enter into your computer via keyloggers and that information can be used later to give you heavy financial losses.

So, what do we do to tackle with such viruses and malicious software programs who’s only intent is destruction and sabotage and maybe most of the times these days to steal your financial data. Some of the viruses are also known to consolidate your system for further damage, that is chain propogation. So, what do you do?

You use an Anti-Virus Software?

And when you think of an anti virus software, what is the name that comes to your mind ?

“Norton Anti-Virus”

No doubt the software is good and symentec has spent a lot of development and efforts to get the software to where it is today? But, for those who are looking for alternatives, here are a few!

Computer Associates Anti-Virus 2007:

• Secure Now: Provides proactive protection by monitoring critical program functions and settings, and reminding you to keep your security at an optimal level.
• Quick Tips: provide you with helpful, at-your-fingertips answers to commonly asked questions, easing the burden of searching the Help file or contacting Support for assistance.
• Threat Outbreak Warning System provides real-time content feeds from the CA Security Advisor, giving you detailed, up-to-the-minute information on the most recent and most prevalent virus threats.
• Complete Home Protection. CA Anti-Virus 2007 protects up to three PCs with a single subscription. You no longer need to buy three separate subscriptions to protect your household PC’s.
• Improved! User Interface offers simplicity and superior ease-of-use, helping you quickly and easily set preferences, check program status, and maintain a secure PC.
• Daily, Fully Automatic Updates easily and effectively address the #1 reason PC users suffer attacks: out-of-date signature files.
• Continuous Protection to keep your computer protected from the latest internet risks by automatically renewing your subscription at the then current renewal price (plus applicable tax), so you don’t have to.
• Low System Overhead with a total install of only 25 MB and low usage of system resources, CA Anti-Virus installs quickly, saves hard drive space, and scans efficiently. This is the most important advantage over Norton Anti-Virus.
• Certified by Independent Testing Organizations including ICSA Labs and West Coast Labs, and certified by Virus Bulletin to detect 100% of viruses “in the wild”.
• Automatic Email Scanning protects against viruses that arrive via email, before they can cause damage.
• Scheduled and On-Demand Scanning allow you to run a virus scan at any time, or schedule scans at pre-selected intervals to meet your needs.
• Real-time Scanning proactively stops viruses by scanning files when they are opened, closed or saved to your PC.
• Advanced Heuristic Scanning detects new threats even before computer virus protection updates are created.
• Interactive Virus Detection Messages provide links to helpful resources in the CA Virus Information Center when threats are detected.
• File Quarantine removes threats from their current location to a secure quarantine area to allow you to further review the file.
• File Exclusion List allows you to exclude specific files and folders from virus scans.
• Archive Scanning allows you to scan compressed files in a variety of formats.

So, Computer Associates anti-virus software is as good as any of those softwares in the market; and resonably priced for all these features, Computer Associates Anti-virus is a good alternative to Norton Anti-virus and more than an alternative i think it is better!

And most importantly they are also giving guarantee that if it software doesnt get rid of all the viruses then you get a compensation of more than $1000, so they are real serious folks and any software vendor would give this kind of guarantee when he belives in his product and the product is good enough.

So, my review says if you are about to buy an Anti-virus software, get over Norton and get a Anti-Virus 2007 from CA!

Coming up in the next part a review for CoGen AntiVirus 2007

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