What is Active Virus Shield?

Active Virus Shield is free anti-virus for your PC that combines traditional antivirus programs, stopping them before they can infect your computer. Active Virus Shield is based on Kaspersky Lab’s award winning Personal Anti-Virus.

I mentioned in a recent post that I was curious to know how Active Virus Shield (powered by Kaspersky) would perform by allowing it to scan a computer that has known risks and infections. After running the scan with Active Virus Shield, I decided to test the other 3 freeware antivirus products - AVG, AntiVir and Avast!.

AVG, AntiVir and Avast are widely used programs so the arrival on the scene of Active Virus Shield is somewhat interesting because it is a service now being offered at no charge by AOL.

View the [ surprising ] test results HERE.

Active Virus Shield : Description and download [14.08Mb] HERE.
An email address is required to download the programme.
You will be sent an activation code for the software.
I advise against installing the Tool Bar.

There have been some privacy issues with this software.
AOL has announced that it will be revising the EULA.

You will need to uninstall AVG, AntiVir or Avast before installing Active Virus Shield.