ThreatFire – Block Malwares and Viruses, Even Unknown Ones

Posted on May 21, 2008 at 5:11 am

Looking for a Windows system security software to complement your antivirus? With huge numbers of malware and virus variants created each day, your antivirus may fail to detect some of them. An antivirus works by using file signatures to recognize unique virus characteristics.

Therefore, you need to download the latest signatures to make sure that your computer is protected from the latest threats. In case that your antivirus provider failed to release new virus signatures a.s.a.p. or that you fail to download the latest virus signatures, your computer is vulnerable to attacks! Therefore, you need a free software like ThreatFire to block new, unknown malwares and viruses.

ThreatFire is a zero-day security software designed to protect your computer from unknown malwares and viruses. Zero-day means that ThreatFire is able to detect known and unknown threats, based on advanced, real-time behavioral analysis technology that monitors files, background tasks, processes and more. It also means that ThreatFire does not rely on signature-based technology to be able to repel malware attacks.

With ThreatFire installed, you can be sure that computer will be protected between each antivirus signature updates. When ThreatFire identifies a threat, it will automatically block them and alert the user to take necessary actions (or you can set it to respond automatically to threats e.g. quarantine).

ThreatFire Features

Free for home and individual use.
Real time protection from all threats including adwares, rootkits, viruses, spywares, worms, trojans, keyloggers, malware and more.
Blocks malware right out of the box without unnecessary user intervention. ThreatFire was created to be an end user friendly product.

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Active Defense technology ensures the highest level of malware / virus detection with low false positives. Therefore, ThreatFire is able to differentiate between a threat and a normal Windows process with greater accuracy.
On-demand security scanner – you can even use ThreatFire to scan and remove dormant threats / threats that resides on your computer but in inactive mode.

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Threat Control Centre – allows a user to manage allowed/denied applications, quarantine items and view protection log.
Advanced Rule Settings – an advanced tool for those who want to define their own threat definition.

System Activity Monitor – view detailed Windows processes from within ThreatFire’s interface. You can terminate a particular process on-demand by right clicking on it and select “End Process”.
Detailed alerts – each threat alerts contains detailed information about the related process, programs or files that triggered it.
Built in PC Tools Antivirus which you can use within the on-demand scanner.
Built in rootkit scanner to scan threats deep inside your registry, hidden files and objects.

Overall, ThreatFire offers an extra layer of protection for your Windows system to block malwares and viruses, either known or unknown. Best used to complement your antivirus, ThreatFire works silently in the background with minimal usage of system resources. Being one of PC World’s “101 Fantastic Freebies for Year 2008“, you surely don’t want to miss the opportunity to use ThreatFire. Download ThreatFire today!

This is a guest post by Syahid A. from TechMalaya

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2 Responses to “ThreatFire – Block Malwares and Viruses, Even Unknown Ones”

Daniel said on : May 28th, 2008 at 9:52 pm

I think this website is very helpful. This is becasue it gives us a list of softwares that we can use to protect our computers.

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