Powerful antivirus guaranteed by Lavasoft.
Lavasoft is one of the most recognized security and optimization companies. Developers of
Ad-Aware and
Registry Tuner, they also have this antivirus application, that they have called
Anti-Virus Helix.
Anti-Virus Helix is a program like many other, has been developed to
protect users against external threats, as well as stopping them and eliminating them if possible.
Detects all kinds of attacking codes like
trojans, bots and worms, that once the warning have been activated, can be eliminated or moved into quarantine.
Heliz analyzes the incoming and outgoing
e-mails by integrating into
Outlook, a usual place for viruses to attack, placing special emphasis on the protection of personal data and the detection of
phishing attempts, that are happening so often as of late.
The protection that
Anti-Virus Helix offers also detects
Rootkits and prevents the installation of code from malicious websites, making sure that browsing over the Internet doesn't become a problem.
Anti-Virus Helix can make
complete or partial scans of the system at the users request or be programmed to perform them at specific times of the day, it uses few system resources and is capable of update thanks to the Lavasoft database.
Note: Can cause problems with Windows Vista. The
trial version has certain limitations.