F-Prot Antivirus

Viruses are considered to be the most important threats of today's computer world. At least one new virus is launched everyday and it's becoming more and more difficult to stop and eliminate them. Moreover, the damage done by them is starting to affect more and more people. The number of antivirus programs out there is quite impressive, but not the same thing can be said about their efficiency. A lot of antivirus products fail to detect and eliminate all the viruses from a computer system, leaving it exposed and giving its user a false sense of security. The viruses left behind by these programs can affect personal user data and can make the operating system unable to boot. Fortunately, there are antivirus programs that manage to intercept and destroy every single virus from a system, making it and the user's personal information safe. One of these programs is F-Prot Antivirus.

The installation process is straightforward and simple to complete. What's different from other installers is that it requires entering a valid email address, for generating a trial serial key. Without this, the user cannot update the virus database, thus the program will be unable to detect newer viruses. F-Prot Antivirus supports most versions of Windows and it's very gentle with the system resources.

The interface has a pleasant graphical aspect and it's very intuitive, all the options being in the right place. The program is basically organized in multiple tabs, the first one displaying the status of the protection, like the date of the virus database, the date when a full computer scan was performed and also the status of the real-time protection components.

The user can initiate an automatic scan or can choose which drives or folders he wants to check for viruses. F-Prot Antivirus also allows checking network folders, shared by other users. When an infected file is found, the software will try to heal it and if this operation fails, it will move the file into a safe quarantine, making it impossible to run and damage the system. The user can review the quarantine items and can choose to restore the files that seem harmless.

Advanced users can take advantage of the Advanced scan feature. Here, the scanning process can be thoroughly configured and can be set to start at a specific moment in time. Besides that, the scanning level can be configured and also the actions that are taken in case an infected file is found. Certain files and folders can be excluded from the scan if the user is sure that they are clean.

A log file is generated after every scan, allowing the user to see in detail how did the scanning process go.