- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: April 14, 2008
- Total Downloads: 1,337,118
- Downloads last week: 13,600
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 355 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
A-Squared Free seems to have worked out many of its major quirks, and has become a top-notch free malware remover.
When the program starts, it opens to the Security Status page. From there, you can run scans, update the program, access the A-Squared knowledge base and choose from among 20 display languages. Program options are arranged on the left nav: the aforementioned Security Status, Scan PC, Quarantine, and Configuration tabs. Scan PC contains four scanning options: Quick, Smart, Deep, and Custom. Obviously, Quick Scan is the fastest and most superficial, while the Deep Scan can take several hours.
If you choose a scan that examines your cookies, the app will recommend closing your Web browser. Custom lets you choose not only which folders to scan, but also lets you opt out of heuristic, tracking cookie, and spyware remnant scans. There is also a Whitelist where you can add folders or files, accessible at the bottom of the main Scan tab panel. The Quarantine tab uses a spreadsheet-style layout to manage isolated files, and the Configuration tab has options for Context menu scans, Update behavior, and Permissions settings.
There's an annoying design quirk, where important options like the Whitelist are placed in the bottom left of the active panel. But for an antimalware program that's free and doesn't install its own spyware on your machine, A-Squared 3 is the place to be.
Publisher's description
From Emsi Software :Scans your computer for malicious software (Malware), including Trojan Horses, Dialers, Worms, Spyware, and Adware. a-squared is specialized in finding and removing them securely. The disk scan checks all files on your system disks for Malware. The scanner scans for Spyware Traces. Currently more than 700,000 different types of Malware may be detected and removed. Daily online updates provides the best protection.
Version 3.5.0.8 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
What's new in this version:
Version 3.5.0.8 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
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User reviews of A-Squared 3.5.0.8
- Average user rating: 3.8 stars out of 355 votes
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: A-Squared 3.5.0.8
Pros: it find theats and remove them
Cons: it freeze my comupter when done
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: A-Squared 3.5.0.8
Pros: Nothing spectacular. I downloaded it because I thought that I could use it to scan program downloads, but it doesn't do that.
I have enough security programs that I don't need this extra. For those who are looking for a pretty good free security scan, you could do worse.
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Version: A-Squared 3.5.0.8
Pros: Love it!!
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: A-Squared 3.5.0.8
"a really dependable and reliable utility."
Pros: Very much worth the download..has a very small "footprint"and is not a resource hog.Updates download quickly.
Cons: nothing to dislike..one of the truly best free utilities
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: A-Squared 3.5.0.8
Pros: It's a fairly small, program that does the very big task of eliminating spyware, adware and other baddies such as "Archive Bombs", Tracking cookies, and I swear it even located a trojan(I don't think it's designed to do so), in a very efficient and resourceful manner...
It doesn't tax your system, it doesn't install it's own "goodies", it doesn't log online with out your consent...
There are alway fresh daily updates(manual update) and it tracks traces(helpers of sorts, that can help install baddies; though not all are bad)...
All in all, one great program that I would highly recommend.
Cons: Lack of auto-update, in free version...
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