Sunday, February 6, 2011

Review - Command Anti-Virus

Command Anti-Virus is very powerful with several useful features. Unlike most other programs which offers no network support, network administrators will enjoy support for central management, network messaging, and more.
Virus detection rate is great. It's not 100%, but Command Anti-Virus definitely performs better than most other programs. Command Anti-Virus has support for all common archive formats except CAB-files (windows installation files) and WinAce self-extracting files. The only area which Command Anti-Virus performs poorly is scanning ActiveX components.
The lowest aspect of Command Anti-Virus is the limited support for email monitoring. Command includes an Outlook plugin, but Outlook Express is not supported, nor is any other email clients. The Outlook plugin is not installed by default, you have to select Custom Install after you start the installation program, and then select the plugin option to install it.
Command Anti-Virus is lacking a lot when it comes to ease of use, and the program is regularly demanding the attention of the user. Command Anti-Virus do have the capability to automatically monitor and disinfect infected files, but every disinfection task is followed by a popup alert which you cannot turn off. Updating virus definition files is not automated, you have to manually initiate the update process. During this process you have to manually select a download site, and then supply a password to access those files. This should be unnecessary and we can only hope that the next release would be more streamlined.
Despite of our minor objections, Command Anti-Virus is a program you can trust. If you can live with limited email support and a slightly complicated interface, then Command Anti-Virus should be well worth your consideration.
source software-antivirus.com

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