Free Anti Virus for windows from Kaspersky

Kaspersky free Antivirus for Windows

Antivirus is one of the most important tool for Windows especially with a lot of viruses and malware available on the internet.   Securing your OS is one of the priority aspects and even Microsoft looks into this aspect with the upgrade to Windows Defender with the latest version of Windows. Windows defender is very nice AV tool available on internet freely.

Kaspersky is one of the leading Antivirus solutions.  Now they announced a new Kaspersky free Antivirus software for windows, but they never had a free one before.  You can download this free Antivirus software which have basic functionalities and  similar to other free versions of other popular anti-virus softwares.

Advantages of Kaspersky Antivirus free version

Comes with all the basic tools like file, email and web antivirus, Automatic updates, self-defence  quarantine etc..  This AV tool is free and also lighter on system resources and quicker so that your system won't slow down due to Kaspersky Antivirus software free version.

If you want more protection, then you should be going for paid version.

The global roll out of the Kaspersky Free will happen within months and they provided a roadmap of availability of free version of Antivirus.

Which programs are using Hard disk or CPU on Windows operating systems. Find this

Quite often you might have experienced Windows slowing down and this can be quite frustrating experiences as you never know what is causing the PC to use the resources making it slow. At the same time you can see which softwares are running behind  in Windows using the task manager.

Why my computer is busy and gets hanging?  There is a tool which allows you to monitor all the softwares which are accessing the HDD and CPU.

Tool name is: Whats My Computer Doing?

After the installation of the app, run it and you can see all installed software which is presently accessing by hard disk and CPU.   You can read all information details (Name, details, time, known problems, security and the version) about the app when you select any program from the list. 

You can see on the above image, on the right side, you can see the program properties and Terminate Process buttons.  If you find any program is gets wrong, you can also send it to Kaspersky or VirusTotal.com for checking on it.

You can also include system processes in the list.  There is a freeze checkbox which freezes the list of softwares accessing the CPU so that you can have a detailed look into it.

This is a free app and it will bring your notice all programs that are accessing your hard disk and CPU.  If you wish you can close or uninstall  all suspicious programs easily.