Free full-featured Fortinet Apsara free anti-virus software evaluation

Fortinet anti-virus software. Chinese users refer to it as "Apsara" and are from the United States. Fortinet has a multi-layer network threat defense system. In terms of monitoring level and detection and removal capabilities, it is no inferior to other commonly used free anti-virus software. Now, with the free anti-virus software, the free version of "Apsara" is available. You can install it without any serial numbers and enjoy full-featured system security protection, including anti-virus, firewall, web page filtering, and WAN optimization. In addition, "Apsara" provides a multi-language version, including the Simplified Chinese version. In this issue, I will lead you to try "Apsara" and see how the performance of this full-featured Foreign top free soft kill function works!

Software materials:

I. installation:

After downloading to the "Apsara" client installer, you can double-click it to open the interface shown in. Two projects are provided on this interface. The first project is the main program of the Apsara stack client, it has been selected by default and must be installed. The second project "FortiClient ssl vpn" is optional. It is not selected by default. users who need it can select it by themselves, this item is used by enterprise or mobile office users to facilitate the establishment of VPN connections for enterprise or company users. General users do not need to check and install this service.

Click the "OK" button to enter the welcome installation interface for the software. Here, you can easily complete the installation process based on the prompts In the Installation Wizard:

"Apsara" anti-virus software provides two versions: the free version and the Professional version. I believe that most domestic users want to try the free version of the software. During the software installation process, the "Professional version" is selected by default ", therefore, you need to switch the installation type to the free version, and then click "Next" to continue the installation process:

The Professional edition of "Apsara" anti-virus software provides anti-spam protection, central management, and other services than the free version. If you have an activation code, you can select "Professional Edition", enter the activation code, and then continue the installation process to activate the software as a fully functional Professional Edition. In fact, the free version of the software provides functions that are sufficient for common users. Therefore, you do not have to use the Professional Edition of the software, "Apsara" Free Edition users can also enjoy a variety of security protection services. As shown in the authorization protocol for the installation process of "Apsara", the user must accept this protocol before continuing the installation process:

Apsara stack provides three installation types: You can choose to install all program components, install only the software's VPN and firewall, and select program components as needed. It is recommended that common users keep the "full mode" selected by default. If you are familiar with all the functional components of "Apsara", you can select the "Custom" installation mode.

The "Apsara" Installer contains multiple built-in functional components, such as anti-virus, firewall, web page filtering, anti-spam, and WAN optimization. If you select the "Custom" installation mode, you can select the required functional components to install and cancel some unnecessary functional components.

To let everyone see all the functions of "Apsara", I click the "full" button to install all functional components. Before the installation is officially executed, the program prompts in red that the network connection may be temporarily interrupted during the installation process,

When you click the "Install" button to perform the installation, you will see an extra disconnected network connection in the system tray area, in the future, this disconnection will always exist,

The installation process lasts for a period of time, which may take several minutes. After the installation process is complete, the page shown in is displayed. You can click "finish" to exit the installation wizard.

After the "Apsara" antivirus software is installed successfully, a "Configuration Wizard" is provided. You can flexibly configure it based on your specific environment, mainly by selecting the environment to use and performing online updates, I will not go into detail here.

In addition, the anti-virus software of Apsara stack provides a firewall to effectively defend against attacks at the network and content layers. When the program detects a new network connection, a prompt box will pop up automatically asking the user whether to allow the connection. This situation is particularly frequent when the "Apsara stack" has just been installed and requires the user to be patient, of course, you can select Intelligent Processing in the firewall setting option of the software.

The Installation Process of "Apsara" is a little complicated and cumbersome compared with the well-known foreign anti-Soft products such as little red umbrella and Kaspersky, but it is basically no difficulty, we believe that you can install the software easily as long as you have experience installing the software. In addition, the use of "Apsara" requires users to have a better understanding of the firewall. Apsara has good active defense performance and can detect and eliminate multi-layer attacks without compromising network performance.

Ii. Update:

After "Apsara stack" is installed, you can directly run it without restarting your computer. The newly installed "Apsara stack" will immediately pop up a pop-up window in the system tray area prompting you to update the system to get the latest and best protection.

You can manually switch the main program interface of "Apsara" to the "Update" tab, where you can view the version of all the built-in components of the software. You can choose to enable the timed Update Service, in this way, the program is automatically updated on a daily basis. You can also manually click the "Update Now" button anytime to check whether the program is updated online, when an updatable component is detected, it is automatically updated online to the latest version.

The free online update service provided by the "Apsara" anti-virus software not only includes updates to the virus database/spyware Library and the corresponding engine, but also updates to the application version, the program will automatically download the update program but will not automatically install it. You must upgrade it with your authorization. The user needs to restart the computer to update the program version.

 

Iii. Anti-Virus:

Anti-virus service is a key and primary application of anti-virus software. Of course, it is also very important for users to choose anti-virus software. It can be said that it is the first major factor. An excellent anti-virus product should have excellent anti-virus performance, users can feel at ease when using it. Next, let's take a look at the anti-virus performance of "Apsara!

Click to go to the "Apsara" built-in "anti-virus" module. The software provides three scan modes: quick scan, full scan, and custom scan. The Fast scan and full-disk scan provided by Apsara Stack are easy to run. You only need to click the corresponding button to start the scan, you need to first click the "Browse" button to customize the scanning object, and then click the "Start scan" button to start the scanning program for the selected object.

In addition, "Apsara" also provides the right-click anti-virus function, allowing you to quickly and easily scan specified objects through the right-click menu,

For the author, click the "quick scan" button and select to perform a quick scan for key areas such as system memory. You can see that the scan task running "Apsara stack" will display a separate Scan progress window, in this window, you can view the Scan progress and other information in real time.

For me, I chose to use the "Flying Tower" Custom scan to scan a virus sample located on the local elastic drive. Because I use a lot of anti-virus software, I feel that the scanning speed of "Flying Tower" is relatively slow, but it's okay, not the speed of the turtle.

Scanning in progress

During the virus sample test, "Apsara" scanned 64 files in total, of which 47 were detected, and the time consumed was unknown. Therefore, the software did not provide the automatic timing function for the scanning process.

Scanning process ended

On the scan completion page, you can select to view the detailed detection report. You only need to click the "Show Details" button in the lower-right corner of the page, the detailed report covers the detected file name, the infected virus name, and the current status of the corresponding file. By default, "Apsara" automatically clears all detected virus files. According to the detailed report, all detected virus files in this virus sample test have been automatically isolated.

Detailed scan report

Some stubborn or dangerous malicious programs may be encountered during some scanning tasks, when "Apsara" automatically cleans these virus files, it will prompt the user to restart the computer to ensure they are completely cleared.