ESET NOD32 impacted the Windows anti-virus software business heavily when their fast and light-weight solution became an instant hit amongst users, eventually forcing other companies to cut their software-bloat to remain competitive. ESET has now announced first public beta of their "NOD32 Antivirus 5" and "Smart Security 5", featuring new improvements like all new Cloud-Powered Reputation system, Optimized Startup Procedure, Enhanced removable media control, new refreshing Graphic User Interface and new Gamer Mode.

Multi engine anti-virus/malware scanners are popular as an online service allowing users to upload and scan suspicious files with most popular anti-virus engines, however, the online solution is not practical in situations where the users needs to scan a lot of files and folders. For such need we have freeware utility "MultiScan" - allowing users to scan any number of files or folders using configurable, multiple, 3rd party, command-line anti-virus/malware scanners of their choice, all from a single interface.

After offering some great utilities like IObit Toolbox, IOBit Advanced SystemCare, and IObit Game Booster we have yet another great looking software from the company as first public BETA of "IObit Malware Fighter" is now available for download.

Developed to be a complete and efficient solution to block, scan and remove malware's - the brand new anti-malware solution comes with an impressive feature set and a beautiful sleek user-interface, Complete feature review with images and videos available after the jump.

MalwareBytes and SUPERAntiSpyware are two popular and trusted free software's when it comes to cleaning of malware ridden computers, but these automated signature based scanners become useless when you are dealing with a little known malware not yet included in the anti-malware database or when the malware is smart enough to detect presence of these utilities and terminate them, in such cases advance computer users resort to manual removal of infected files by taking help from tools like ARSwp, System Repair Engineer, SpyDLLRemover and ATool to name a few - today I am going to share a pretty little known but excellent must-have utility dubbed 'FreeFixer' which provides everything you will be needing to detect and get rid of those hard-to-remove malware files manually.

FreeFixer is an simple to use utility which allows users to scan and delete potentially unwanted files belonging to adwares, spywares, trojans, viruses and worms; unlike other signature based automated malware-busters FreeFixer simply scans all the places from where these malware gets loaded white-listing trusted known genuine files allowing advanced computer users to detect and remove unwanted files from getting loaded next time you boot your computer.

Smart Security is yet another great offering from ESET the makers of fast & stable anti-virus software NOD32, Smart Security is NOD32 anti-virus/anti-spyware bundled with integrated firewall and antispam protection, most anti-virus companies are now offering one suite for all computer security related tasks including anti-virus, anti-malware, firewall and spam protection like Windows Live OneCare and Norton 360.

Smart security beats the other security solutions hands down in scanning speed and low memory consumption with very good detection rates, the software is still in beta but is very stable the best thing about the software is it does not makes your computer slow as most other anti-virus software do.

Here are features at a glance:

• Anti-virus with anti-malware, firewall and spam filter
• Incremental updates for smaller update size – resulting in faster updates on slow connections
• Two operating modes for Basic and advanced users
• Intelligent cleaning without the need of user’s action
• Scanning on background saves system resources
• Intrusion detection system - detects and block various types of network attacks
• Custom rule sets - white and black listing