I came across a Free Anti Virus software few days back. I installed it in my machine and it is running. So i just thought of sharing it with you.

The name of the software is  AVG Anti Virus Free. Go to the website www.freewarefiles.com and you can find this software in the list Software Categories -> Antivirus.

Main features of this software are :

Anti Virus

This part of the software protects your computer from viruses ans worms.

Anti Spyware

This part of the software protects your computer from adware, spyware and other harmful programs.

E-mail scanner

This part of the software protects your computer from incoming and outgoing mails.

( Note : Iam not sure about how this part works. Whether it checks POP3 mails or yahoo,gmail or both ?)

Resident Shield

This part of the software protects your computer from the files that you are working with.

Update Manager

This part of the software downloads the latest version of the software as and when.

1.Scheduled scan :

1. You can  do scheduled scan of all the files in your computer. For this ( after the AVG software is installed ) go to menu Tools -> Advanced settings.

2. Choose the drop down tree Schedules.

3. Click the branch named Scheduled scan.

4. You can see three tabs Schedule settings, How to scan, What to scan.

1.1. Schedule settings :

Here you have the option of when you want to scan your files. Please see the image below.

1.2. How to scan:

Here you have the options for whether if a virus is found , it has to be repaired or not.

1.3. What to scan:

Here you have options for the files to scan.Whether you want to scan the whole system,whole drive or particular folder.

1.4.Scan Results:

You can view the results of the scheduled scan by clicking the menu History -> Scan results.

Still there are many other settings for Email scanner, Updates,  Resident shield  etc are available which you can explore.