Anvi Smart Defender 1.8.1

Anvi Smart Defender aims to be something more than just your average anti-virus tool. It not only detects and cleans up your computer from any threat and infection, but also offers you a suite of useful optimization tools. It uses cloud technology to keep its virus database always up to date, allowing you to check any suspicious file just by dropping it into its cloud analyzer.

The program comes in an attractive and well-structured interface, which makes it very easy for users to access its extensive functionality. The first thing that Smart Defender does when launched for the first time is it fast-scans your system. It will provide you with a clear report informing you about any threats found and the possibility of wiping them out right away. Once your PC is clean and free from malicious software, the program will remain active in the background, keeping an eye on any new threats. The protection it offers focuses on four main areas: Web Guard, Behavior Guard, USB Guard, and Adware Guard – thus covering the four main points of entry for potential threats.

AnviSoft’s Smart Defender also helps you to keep your system fit. Its “Optimize Computer” section offers you a cleaner of junk and temporary files, a registry fixer, a privacy cleaner, a memory sweeper, and a disk defragmenter. The memory sweeper will clean up your RAM memory and will release as much physical memory as possible, thus preventing your system from clogging up. The Registry Fix will take care of any obsolete or broken registry entries, especially those left behind by uninstalled applications. The remaining tools will get rid of all those junk files that accumulate with normal use – taking up valuable disk space – as well as all those temporary files that either are completely obsolete or contain sensitive information about your browsing activities.

As a bonus, you are offered an interesting toolbox with four excellent utilities. One of them is a Cloud System Booster, which makes use of current cloud technology to clean up your system and registry even more thoroughly. A useful Ad Blocker, a Windows Update Downloader, and a Browser Repair Tool (it restores your browser settings when those have been altered by a malicious program) complete this excellent suite of tools.

It is important to mention that – regrettably – the program’s utilities related to your browsing activity are all restricted to Internet Explorer. The Browser Repair Tool, the Web Guard, and the Privacy Cleaner – they all refer explicitly to IE settings, junk files, cookies, etc. If Anvi Smart Defender seeks to become a truly top-notch application, its devs have to open up these tools to some of the other widely used Internet browsers.