VIRUSfighter Server

VIRUSfighter Server is an antivirus application designed for Windows servers. Designed to protect PCs against popular forms of malware, the tool features multiple scanning modes, a quarantine for managing potential threats, along with several configuration settings.

The setup procedure shouldn't be a difficult task, since the program sports only familiar options. It is packed in a regular window with a neatly organized structure split into multiple panels for easy configuration.

In the first panel you can get an overview on the current security situation on the PC, provided that an initial scan was run to get an assessment.

In the second panel you can perform a scanning job in full, quick or custom mode. The full scan is the most thorough one which covers all local drives and verifies the memory, quick mode runs a rapid scan in the critical areas known to be popular malware hiding spots, while custom mode, as the name suggests, permits users to handpick drives and files to examine.

The quarantine is the place where you can view suspicious or infected files in order to remove, restore or add them to a whitelist to exclude from further scans.

As far as program settings are concerned, you can change the UI language, ask VIRUSfighter Server to only detect threats without taking further action, update the application and virus definitions, set a proxy configuration, and more.

By default, VIRUSfighter Server scans all files matching a list with predefined extensions. You can add new ones, limit the file size and set the heuristics level, or take into account all types of files for the scan. Moreover, scan jobs can be scheduled to run on a regular basis in full or quick mode. In the last tab you can examine log files with scan details.

The tool leaves a small footprint on system resources, using low CPU and RAM. It is quite responsive to commands. It did not hang, crash or pop up error messages throughout our evaluation. To sum it up, VIRUSfighter Server provides Windows servers with an effective method to protecting systems against online threats.