Anti-Virus Analysis - Report Example

Download file to see previous pages There exist many anti-virus tools that are both paid for and that are free. However, in this paper, the main focus is on free anti-virus tools. Bitdefender Antivirus Free Edition and Avira Antivirus Free Edition will be the main focus. In comparing the two anti-viruses, the analysis will be carried out in terms of their main features, their advantages and disadvantages, their functionality, their ease to use, and their footprint. The reason for choosing the two tools is because they are among the best ranked free anti-viruses in the market currently. Moreover, they have more features as compared to other free tools.

Bitdefender Antivirus Free Edition is a version of the Bitdefender’s paid solutions anti-virus (Rusen, 2015). It mainly focuses on providing the user with the basic essential protection every Windows user should have. It provides on-demand and real-time protection against any known or unknown malware threat. Additionally, it has a web scanner. As per my experience with the anti-virus, it works well for any user. Not only does it utilize the same engine and database as Bitdefender’s paid version, but it is also lightweight. For example, during the testing of this product, the CPU usage was negligible, and the RAM usage was around 16 MB. However, the RAM usage was not always at 16 MB. It peaked at around 125MB before it cleaned itself and then jumped to 16 MB. The RAM usage then gradually crept to 50 MB multiple times after which it cleaned itself up and jumped down to 16 MB. Finally, the RAM usage settled to around 16 MB with the occasional spike to 55 MB.

It combines non-signature based and traditional signature-based protection to assist detect known and not yet known threats in the computer. This is made possible by its active virus control, intrusion detection system, and B-HAVE. The active virus control looks to detect any not yet known threats, the intrusion detection system stops any processes that access the network or internet with questionable behavior, and B-HAVE analyzes the behavior of programs in a safe environment to make sure that no illicit code is executed (Stair & Reynolds, 2015). ...Download file to see next pages Read More