Windows Defender is also a free program and is light weight. It evolved from another product which was developed by Giant Company Store called Antispyware. Microsoft purchased this product in 2004 and hacked away at it to enhance it and be competitive in this space. They released a reengineered product in 2006. I'm not a big fan of Microsoft these days but this doesn't look like a bad product.
There are two features which Microsoft is proud of in this tool but I don't see how this is different from other tools. They are
1) Software Explorer
2) Real-time Alerting
These features alone do not impress me but I'm willing to try it out. Avira does throw advertisements dialog windows at start-up and I experience some slowness with this tool but nothing significant. I'm willing to try something new though, why not? Has anyone out there used this tool or appreciated any of it's features over other tools?
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