Xyvos Free Antivirus for Windows

User Reviews

• Xyvos is a good antivirus.

  AngStelJanuary 5, 2013

  Pros

  Xyvos is a good antivirus for those who understand how it works . I'm amused to see some tests that show how the system is collapsed trying all sorts of malware, that any antivirus would fail .

  Cons

  It should however better communication from Xyvos and maybe an update considering that the last one was in 2010 .

  Summary

  A combination with WinPatrol can be a good solution for old computers.

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• A clever bit of software that works perfectly!

  1walpurgisJune 20, 2011

  Pros

  My computer starts & runs so much faster now and this A/V software has caught a few nasties trying to intrude and killed them dead! My computer is totally safe now.

  Cons

  A scan facility would be nice, but that's not what this is designed for.

  Summary

  It's had a couple of negative reviews from people who haven't really understood what this A/V is about. It requires the minimum of user input, it never needs updating, but now and then it will ask you whether you want to allow or block a change happening in your system or an application operating. If you aren't sure you just block it temporarily and Google the item to identify it, if it's safe, allow it next time, otherwise block it permanently, but this only occasional. You don't actually need a scan facility, just download the file, but don't install it, then once you are off the net, do a full scan with your old A/V before uninstalling it, then install Xyvos. You will need a separate anti-spyware application, Spyware Expert is good and free. Xyvos is only a tiny file and uses hardly any computer resources, as a result my computer starts up much faster and runs more quickly. Brilliant!

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• DOESN'T PROTECT AGAINST SPYWARE!!!

  jpaluskaJanuary 28, 2011

  Pros

  very small

  Cons

  no scan option. pc security test stats: anti-virus: 70% anti-spyware: 0%

  Summary

  ok protection from viruses, but I do not recommend downloading

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• Its cool and very thin

  Ed_TricklebankDecember 22, 2010

  Pros

  Powerful and silent. We don't need to worry about updates to catch new viruses. It has automatically detected viruses in my machine.

  Cons

  Need below options 1. Scan full system 2. Remove virus option

  Summary

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• Worth downloading...

  mike_sam007December 20, 2010

  Pros

  I had a popular antivirus and it used to eat my memory and lot of I/O operations... I was looking for a behavioral-based antivirus.... Xyvos is thin and it detected couple of system level changes...

  Cons

  Not able to scan thumb drive... help is also not available...

  Summary

  Worth downloading.... I used some other behavioral based av.. not detected any changes in my system....

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• basic but fast

  vict_cfkDecember 20, 2010

  Pros

  It detected some changes in critical part of the system ,and that was very good .

  Cons

  no option for scan .

  Summary

  It gives basic protection ,It is not resource hungry,It uses only some 6 MB of memory

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• Not ready for prime time

  lanquihueDecember 16, 2010

  Pros

  I didn't like this product

  Cons

  Interface was amateurish, I had no idea what it was actually doing.

  Summary

  After install, it appeared as an icon in the taskbar, but didn't ask for any configuration. Clicking the icon brought me to the interface, but there wasn't even an option to do a manual scan. There was no sort of update that I could see, and in the few minutes that I had it running, it didn't seem to do anything. According to my firewall, it never asked for network access, either. It's the kind of program that, once you uninstall it, the first thing you do is run a full virus scan.

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