F-PROT virus signature files and advanced heuristics protect your computer with a very high detection rate of malicious software. Its updates are fast and light with the anti-virus engine upgrade being automatic, too. The antivirus solution for Windows keeps your computer from harm in real-time when reading, writing or executing files as well as when using sending and receiving emails in Microsoft Outlook 2000 or later. The same is true for your Internet security by means of Internet Explorer ActiveX safeguarding.
F-PROT also has a number of sophisticated scanning options related to quarantine, file exclusion, scan-depth, subfolders, compressions and streams. Its scan locations include ‘My Computer’, hard drives, removable media, network and ‘user-defined’. On top of that, F-PROT can be set to detect potentially unwanted programs (PUPs). As opposed to viruses, worms and other malware will PUPs only be reported and not automatically disinfected or quarantined. Because this nice feature is off by default you may want to go to
Virus scanners -> Advanced -> Settings -> Other settings -> “Report possible unwanted applications”.
