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Saturday, January 19, 2019

Best 5 Free and Open Source Antiviruses

"We are very sorry for any concern this data security event may cause our passengers," CEO Rupert Hogg said in a statement. The Hong Kong-based carrier is in the process of contacting affected people.
When major data breaches occur the company releases a public statement apologizing, and much they value their customer's data and will take all measure to safeguard and preserve their user data. 
But the fact is these companies have been leaking data forever, it's until when they get caught red handed is when they issue these kinds of statement.
Data breaches have risen sharply over the last two years.

Anyone remembers the Sony hack?

So do yourself a favor and grab a free antivirus software to protect yourself against malicious viruses.

Anti-virus software makes us comfortable when using mobile phones, tablets, and computers. Allows us to safely surf the web without fear of leaking your sensitive and  private information to others or fall for a malware . An Anti-virus software is also known as anti-malware software, which is a computer program used to prevent, detect, deter and remove malware. It can protect your computer from ransomware, key-loggers, backdoors, trojan horses, worms, fraud, fake links, tools, adware and fraud tools, etc.

Certain security software includes protection against other computer threats such as spam, online banking attacks, malicious URLs, phishing campaigns, phishing attacks, Identity theft, social engineering techniques, persistent persistent threats (APT), and DDoS attacks.
The following is a list of the top five open source tools from AntiVirus which are completely free and lightweight. This can help you, whether you are a beginner or an advanced user, to keep your computers safe and prevent viruses from infecting your important files.


1. OpenAntiVirus project




This is easily the go-to free anti-virus program that was established on August 30, 2000. Its features include VirusHammer, an independent virus scanning program, including the ScannerDaemon and PatternFinder projects that provide virus protection and Squid-scan, which enables you to scan all traffic passing through HTTP- Proxy.


2. ClamAV

ClamAV is another open source Antivirus written with C and C ++ software suite licensed under the GNU General Public License. Released on April 9, 2018, for Unix. It also has an external version available for AIX, BSD, HP-UX, Linux, MacOS, OpenVMS, OSF (Tru64) and Solaris. It can detect many types of viruses and malware and you can use this on mail servers as a server-side email virus scanner.
I personally use this on my mail server.


 



ClamWin is another free open source gem antivirus tool for your Machines running Windows operating system written in C ++ and Python, which provides an easy graphical user interface for the Clam AntiVirus engine. Licensed under the GNU General Public License. Its features include scheduler scanning when a user logs on, automatic virus database updates, and a separate virus scanner with context menu integration for Windows Explorer...

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4. Armadito

Armadito Antivirus is an open source antivirus tool for your servers and computers. It protects your systems from viruses and malware and provides solutions available for Windows devices. It is created using a Web-based central administration console that can be used remotely from anywhere via an easy-to-use interface that provides access to many features. Its control panel provides access to on-demand scanning, real-time protection, threat detection, technical support and more.




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Moon Secure AV provides multiple access, scan engines, and firewall features in existing commercial antivirus software. Moon Secure AV is an open source tool that uses the ClamAV antivirus tool. This is designed to detect viruses, trojans, and spyware such as any anti-virus software. 


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Its features also include on-demand malware testing, real-time protection, direct updates, low resource usage and operation on all Windows operating systems, and protection of application operation from USB devices and auto-run operations.








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