For your computer to be safe and protected, you need to be running an antivirus to keep your computer protected from threats coming from the outside; worms, viruses, malware, spyware and other malicious programs. While many Internet savvy people are familiar with the more popular antivirus programs like AVG or Norton, there’s an antivirus program that’s been constantly providing complete protection despite being lesser known. This program is called Exterminate It.

Exterminate It is a very simple antivirus program that only offers basic scanning and removing of malware and other threats on your computer.

The program is so much lighter than any other antivirus programs available in the market so it only requires minimal system requirements. To install the program, you’ll need at least 10 MB free disk space. There’s no need to worry if you already have antivirus program installed on your computer. In fact, you don’t need to uninstall them as the program is compatible with other security suites.

Simple and clean, that’s how it’s graphical user interface can be described. It’s white and gray combination makes the window pleasant to the eye. The program also provides a wide display area for the viruses and malware detected.

The only drawback of its interface is the menu. When you click an item in the menu, the rest of the items will vanish from the screen. You need to click the “back to scan” button on the upper portion of the screen to go back to the menu items.

As with the popular antivirus programs, this program offers basic features of scanning and removing threats found on your computer. But the scanning and cleaning capabilities of the program are limited only to the registry and system files, not on the entire hard drive and external devices like USB flash drives. Updates are not a problem as the program’s web server provides a huge database for the latest threats. You can be sure that your computer is being protected real time and up to date.

A good feature of this program is its ability to allow users to submit newly found threats which the program’s database failed to detect through its feature called “Submit State Functionality”. Not only that you make your computer free from viruses, you also contribute to the information about undiscovered threats for other people to be aware of.

There are more features and tools to be discovered when you install and explore this program. But it seems the main ones mentioned here are a good extra level of protection alongside you’re usual security software.

You can check out and download Exterminate It at exterminate-it.com

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