ARTAV Antivirus Rev. 2.1

ARTAV Antivirus is a freeware antivirus product able to protect your computer against all types of malware, providing at the same time real-time protection to prevent new infections.

Especially designed to fight against viruses, Trojans, worms and spyware, the application comes with a rather unusual look, mostly when comparing it to all the other antivirus products in the market.

And although it is pretty simple, it also looks more or less unprofessional.

There are three scanning modes, full/system, custom and removable, with the latest especially addressed to checking the removable drives for viruses.

A full system scan takes less than five minutes, it seriously slows down the computer and it even becomes unresponsive every once in a while.

In addition, ARTAV Antivirus boasts real-time protection that can be enabled and disabled with a single right click on the System Tray icon. But what's really interesting is the way the virus definitions updater works.

Not only that the process is terribly slow, but it also needs you to quit the main application in order to download and install the updates.

Beside the virus detection and blocking tools, ARTAV Antivirus also comes with three additional tools, as it follows: a process manager that has less features than the dedicated Windows Task Manager, an ads and popup blocker and a virtual keyboard.

Although it's an antivirus product, there's no help file included in the package, so users need to search the web to get more info on some of its features.

All in all, it's pretty clear that ARTAV Antivirus is still far from what we usually expect from a powerful antivirus. And it undoubtedly needs a lots of improvements in most of its key areas.