Giveaway of the Day - AnVir Task Manager 5.4.1
December 5, 2008AnVir Task Manager gives full information about process, services, TCP/UPD connections, drivers, DLLs. It has descriptions for 70 000+ startup programs and services. It detects new and unknown Trojans using security analysis and alerts on new startups. It can speed up boot time (Delayed Startup), balance CPU usage, optimize memory. Tray icons shows status of disk, network, memory, CPU. Tray menu keeps last launched programs and folders. Also users can hide windows to system tray, set windows ‘always on top’, and change windows transparency.
Monitor your system and replace Windows Task Manager
- Information about processes, startup programs, services, internet connections, drivers
- Integrated database with Descriptions for 70 000+ startup programs, Internet Explorer toolbars and services
- Icons in the tray that indicate CPU, disk, network, memory and battery
Get rid of viruses, Trojans and spyware that your antivirus missed
- Security risk rating for each active process and startup program
- Get notification when any program tries to add itself to startup
Enhance and tune up XP or Vista
- Tweaker that gives access to hundreds of XP / Vista settings
- Click on the title of any application to minimize window to system tray
- List of recently used folders in Open / Save dialogs
- Drive’s free space as a colored horizontal bar in Windows ‘My Computer’
Speed up your PC and Windows startup
- “Delayed Startup” lets you set up any startup program to run few minutes later after Windows startup
- Run startup programs minimized to system tray, or as a floating icon
- Balance CPU usage
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| System Requirements: | Minimum Requirements: Intel Pentium 3 500MHz or Equivalent processor; 128 MB RAM; 1 MB free hard disk space; Graphics mode 800x600; Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/2003/Vista; Internet Explorer 6.0 |
| Publisher: | AnVir Software |
| Homepage: | http://www.anvir.com/taskmanag... |
| File Size: | 2.70 MB |
| Price: | The program is available for $31.95, but it will be free for our visitors as a time-limited offer. |
Unzip the package you've downloaded, and carefully read the instructions which you can find in the readme.txt file. This readme.txt file is included with all our downloads. Follow the instructions carefully to install and activate the software.
AnVir Task Manager 5.4.1 is available as a Giveaway of the day! You have 19 hours 55 minutes to download and install it.
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- No free technical support
- No free upgrades to future versions
- Strictly personal usage
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Task Manager Pro
Task Manager Pro is utility software that gives users a comprehensive set of tools to put them in full control of their computer. It gives you full detailed information about every process that is running, and about applications running automatically on Windows startup including all hidden applications. It provides you with the tools to block any process, or to change the priority of any process. Task Manager Pro is the choice of advanced users and IT professionals.
Security Suite
Security Suite is utility software that gives users a comprehensive set of tools to put them in full control of their computer. It gives you full detailed information about every process that is running, and about applications running automatically on Windows startup including all hidden applications. It has all the features of Task Manager Pro with the additional benefits of Virus Destroyer features.
AnVir Task Manager Free
Freeware edition of AnVir Task Manager without some features.
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Hi, everybody!
AnVir Software support here.
I have a great news for you. Today we give 30% discount on all our software. Coupon code HT9Z1.
Compare todays giveaway AnVir Task Manager with full featured AnVir Task Manager Pro on this page http://www.anvir.com/task-manager-windows-startup.htm.
If you have any questions, please, ask me here, or on our forum
User comments on previous giveaway v5.2
Changes in v5.4
New:
1. Localization to German, Italian, Japanese.
2. Vista / XP Tweaker - tool to set up Windows settings.
3. On Windows XP show drive’s free space with a colored horizontal bar in Windows “My Computer” (Vista style drive icons on Windows XP).
4. Run programs on startup as floating icons or minimized to system tray.
Improvement:
1. Network icon in tray shows separate indicators for inbound and outbound traffic.
2. Processor icon in tray shows CPU load for each processor (or core).
3. Save windows transparency.
4. Commands Turn Off, Restart, Log Off, Switch User in Tools->Shut Down.
5. Support for big Windows fonts.
6. Set priority to delayed startup programs.
7. Run delayed startup programs on workdays or on weekends only.
8. Add custom size to resize command of system menu.
Fixed bugs:
1. System menu didn’t work on Vista with UAC enabled.
2. Progress dialog added for long operations of digital signatures check. To disable signatures check set CheckFileSignatures=0 in anvir.ini.
3. In some cases system dialogs “Move” and “Copy” appeared when running delayed startup programs.
4. In some cases size of main window was saved incorrectly.
5. Floating icon worked incorrectly.
6. On Vista 64-bit paths of some processes was empty.
Unqualified thumbs up ….. a great program which I have used for many months already and this latest upgrade is most welcome….thanks GAOTD.
Previous 5.2.0 version was a great GAOTD success. Installing today’s 5.4.1 version is assumably another success, although I don’t immediately see any difference.
Excellent !
Great program, thanks.
Whoa…my Norton Internet Security 2009 “removed” a program called “we2202.tmp”, which seems to be from this AnVir release. The details from the Norton “Sonar” component says two programs were killed: we2202.tmp and virustotalupload.exe.
Given AnVir’s positive reputation, and the fact that it seems to be functioning normally despite the above, I’m going to hope that there were false positives.
Registered as Makware under PCTools Antivirus or PCTools Threatfire
Good One today.. Vista Compatible too.. I have this prog on my old XP.
Thanks
I was suspicious when my K9 Web Protection blocked http://www.anvir.com as a “Spyware source”.
My suspicious was aroused even further when Kaspersky prompted me three times with suspected trojans when trying to install this software:
First Prompt
Second Prompt
Third Prompt
I am currently trying to do a bit more research to see if this may be a false positive; I am also trying to upload this file onto online scanners such as Jotti and VirusTotal but I thought I should just give a heads up first.
I will update if I found out anything.
Okay so, as promised an update:
Scanner.virus.org and virustotal.com pretty much gave this program the green light. It must of just been bad luck on my part to get two false positives (potential). It might of been that Kaspersky was detecting a preventative trojan signature, not sure.
As a side note, on download.com there is a “AnVir Task Manager 5.4.1 Free”. Gunna check that out to see if its the same as what is given out today.
Not bad, tons of info - Very useful program.
Can’t see the current load of each core on my processor and can’t set process affinity either, other than that, it’s great replacement to task manager.
If this is your kind of thing, look up “sysinternals process explorer”. Sysinternals are owned by Microsoft.
The difference between Anvir Task Manager and Process Explorer is that process explorer is already free.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx
http://live.sysinternals.com/procexp.exe
This may be useful if you have reinstall windows and can’t get the Anvir programme back.
Jeez! How many times are you going to give this program away? This is the third or fourth time I’ve seen it on here (there have probably been more that I haven’t caught), and I’ve only been utilizing this site for about a year and a half!
As I purchased AnVir Security Suite, I won’t be testing the Task Manager, but this is one of my favorite tools. Very versatile, has features which Process Explorer doesn’t (although Process Explorer has some which AnVir doesn’t). I don’t have time to go into what all it can do. Personally, I can’t stand and don’t recommend any of the anti-virus, optimization, and tweaker settings, I turn all of those off / don’t use them. The security ratings are merely a guide, I don’t find that feature useful, although the startup monitor can be useful if it has a specific entry (the partial matches are generally useless). AnVir is good about fixing bugs, there are some minor issues which I haven’t reported (I report bugs in many applications, if I reported them all that would take all of my life), such as it’s tracking program usage but not folder usage on Vista in the tray icon menu. There are also differences in what it reports for activity compared to other tools, such as Vista’s Reliability and Performance monitor.
Just a small example of one of its endless features. When I tried the RecentX update, I didn’t see anything on-screen, but it was running. AnVir can list all windows associated with a process, whether visible or not, and you can change their settings. A window was listed as visible, but I didn’t see it, so I resized it. The RecentX toolbar was auto-hidden at the top right of my screen, where the Vista Sidebar is, and not readily noticeable at my primary monitor’s 1920×1440 resolution. Resizing the window made it readily visible (and RecentX immediately changed it back to its correct settings).
#1: Even though you give a 30% discount, you also raised the price of this product from $24.95 to $31.95 or about 28% :-)
All in all, assuming that the other products received a similar increase the price is about the same as at the time of the last giveaway.
But this program is still worth it, a really great replacement for the Task Manager, have been using it until I had to reformat my harddisk. It can also be converted to a portable version, by simply copying the program and a configuration file (and slight editing of the configuration) IIRC - the instructions to do this are in a readme in the program directory.
I liked this so much that i bought the PRO version and have not looked back. This is an excellent piece if software, that enables you to see and have control over all your systems processes, ie. whats running, whats starting automatically, how much system resources are being utilised and you have the ability to modify or stop them (use with care here). A very comprehensive and well thought out application, a big thumbs up from me.
It seems this product deserves a little patchwork before effectively being released.
Well, GaD-guinea-pigs, provided key on Giveaway dialog box will NOT work as is. Don’t worry, this is a pre-registered version, at least.
But what really amazed me is getting a FULLY RUSSIAN INTERFACE WHEN CLICKING TOOLS > TWEAKER FOR WINDOWS. There must be a way to change that into an english version, but have no clue on how doing that this far.
-any russian-speaker who could enlighten us more? A word from the producers, perhaps…? A fix…? I guess no.
Another year ending and not a single sign of Hacker Evolution - ReInserction, by the way. Nor Biathlon. Why each and everything is being re-re-re-re offered except that? Direct Access and Advanced File Organizer *3.01*, I’m waiting for you to Christmas…
I got version 5.3 of this when it was offered six months ago or so, and like it a lot. It combines capabilities that are very similar to those offered by a couple great SysInternals (now Microsoft) programs, namely Process Explorer (a more capable replacement for the built-in Windows task manager)and Autoruns (a program/service startup manager), if you happen to know what those great pieces of software are, and in addition AnVir has a number things that those particular programs don’t happen to offer, such as one-click access to several Windows system administration areas, which is nice. Despite it’s wide array of hooks into various system functions (monitoring individual application cpu usage, memory usage, ability to set cpu usage priority level of individual applications, etc.) this app has been completely stable for me, has caused no problems in my system.
One fun/interesting thing about this program is that you can choose to have any or all of four monitoring icons be present in your system tray area that can help you get detailed info on what apps are using most cpu cycles, what apps are accessing the hard disk when it’s whirring away and you have no idea why, what your current network activity level is, and what apps are using the most memory. Although I find these mostly just useful for general informational purposes, they can also come in very useful if you are having a system slowdown or bottleneck and you want to figure out what the offending process is.
I’m not going to update to the newer version offered here today, as the additions it offers aren’t something that are particularly necessary to me, but if you don’t have an older version of this, I’d recommend getting it. You can learn TONS about how your system works just by keeping tabs on what processes are running, in real time, also interesting to look at it’s live process log and see what processes have been getting activated and doing stuff “behind the scenes” when you had no idea.
Curioser and curioser. Apparently they don’t check or understand the pages on their file dump sites. Or at least one of them. I went to the first site listed in their combined (for all their software) award page - Download 3000 - and all 5 of their software products on that site were run through virus total and HAD hits. That included the 4.0 version of this and the 4.0 pro version and a 4.8 free version. The hits: Panda found a suspicious file on all 5 and VBA32 found the following on all five: “suspected of Win32.BrokenEmbeddedSignature (paranoid. The actual entry’s probably bigger but that’s all the space the Virus Total report that Download 3000 posted had. Haven’t used Virus Total myself, so don’t know what the reports should look like. Also the 4.0 Pro version showed Prevx1 detecting an unspecified worm. Probably false hits, but not an auspicious start.
Only got up because the furnace blew out. Beddy-bye time for me. May check more into this later if smarter minds haven’t got to the bottom of it first.
My advice to everyone: Get this program! I’ve been using it for a long time and it’s great. See my capsule review in post #57 of my utilities blog.
GOTD and Anvir, thanks very much for another great offer. And Anvir, thanks for the first comment, and I hope you will monitor the comments to answer other visitors’ questions.
For me, though, there is no question about it. I recommend Anvir Task Manager to everyone I know.
Looks like a good program but not very respectful. For example, I told it not to open their webpage, but my ZoneAlarm firewall still received a request to open FireFox from AnVir. I also told it to add no links to my computer (except start menu), but after going to my desktop I saw an AnVir link. I’ll see how it performs after a while, but after a couple of minutes it definitely seems like something I can use.
Thanks GOTD
I see no real reason to use this program seeing as Windows Task Manager gives you all the info you need about the programs you have running.
Seem to be a conspiracy going on today with people raving about this unnecessary program, perhaps a sales drive by the company.
Ashraf’s report just became available to me. Seems they may have fixed the problems. Don’t know AnVir’s reputation myself. Maybe it’s just a lack of business forsight. But, if it’s me, I check what the sites that I post my software on have to say about me. Especially if I sight one of their 5 star “awards”. I at least check to see if they say I have viruses and post somewhere on my site explaining the false hits. Or, more importantly, withdraw the old version and replace them with the new ones. Probably nothing, but not the most confidence inducing of starts. #6 - Anthony and Ashraf, you probably already know, but this software includes the option of uploading a suspicious file to VirusTotal. That’s what the we22202.tmp apparently is. That may explain all the false hits. Still, I’m going to remain on the sidelines until better info. is available. Goodnight.
#11, Joe Momma, per-core loads are visible in the tray icon, if displayed, and in the icons on AnVir’s status bar (they show loads for my quad-core processor). You should never mess with affinity.
A couple of more items for AnVir, if they read this. Internet traffic monitoring never does anything at all on my system. Clicking tray icons for monitoring often doesn’t work.
There were a lot of red flags during install from threatfire and Comodo Internet Security. They were false positives and just precautionary warnings because the program accesses registry files and all of your system files. Antivirus programs are going to see this as a virus because it has virus like behavior. It is not. This is a helpful application that will replace and far surpass the task manager of Windows. Running on Vista Home Premium 32-bit. Thanks GAOTD team for this.
#17, Robert, that’s a strange attitude. Newer versions always include new features and bug fixes, and you’re getting it free. AnVir does utilize some CPU, disk I/O, and memory, but it’s an acceptable load on my system. If you use the menu extensions, you can right-click an application window title bar, select “Open AnVir”, and it will open AnVir to the associated process.
Installed fine and registered itself on Vista 64 Home Premium. Thanks!
very good program. i am using AnVir Task Manager v 5.2.0 - given earlier in GAOTD site and very impressed by it’s performance. It runs in system tray.
it’s interface looked complex when I first run the program but later I found it very user friendly.
On selecting ‘startup’, it shows all programs ( even those which are not detected by other ‘Start-Up Manager’ ) which start automatically with Windows and security risk analysis (High/Medium/Low/No) of each of them.
On moving cursor on a program in the list, a window in the lower region shows specific information of that program and why it is marked ‘High/Medium/low risk’
On selecting ‘processes’, all processes ( even if it is hidden) which are running in computer and are shown with similar risk analysis . A very useful feature to detect malware in the system.
About 40 days back, this program marked a process high risk (on that time my free antivirus program unable to detect that ) and I was able to block that process and able to prevent eventual slowdown of my system. With new update, my free antivirus program removed that malware just few days back.
Thanks GOTD for another useful program!
To #12 hey, this is an updated version.
Also there may be people who have had to reformat in the last 12 to 18 months and would like to reinstall it, like me, for instance!
Previous offerings:
AnVir Task Manager
http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/anvir-task-manager/
AnVir Task Manager 5.2.0
http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/anvir-task-manager-520/
AnVir Task Manager 5.0.4
http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/anvir-task-manager-5-0-4/
I didn’t find any reviews by Bladed Thoth.
Installed very easily and runs great on XP SP3.
Seems to be giving a false positive on Avira Antivir Personal:
2 entries found in startup database:
___________________________
1. Status: Regular entry
Description: AntiVir(r) PersonalEdition Classic antivirus. Background task which scans files transparently.
___________________________
2. Partial match with ’special firewall service’ avguard.exe
Status: Definitely not required - typically viruses, spyware, adware and ‘resource hogs’.
Description: NETSKY.G WORM!
At least, I hope it’s a false positive!
Good software to track everything in one window.. cheers..
I got AnVir when it was previously offered by GAOTD. You’d be hard-pressed to find another program that gives you this much info and control over your computer’s processes, services, startups, etc.
So far this looks good. Yes all of what it does can be done with various freeware programs (that I have), but they’re scattered and most are harder or more inconvenient to use.
I am annoyed that it defaulted to loading with windows without being asked.
I too had Kasperski complain about suspicious trojan-like behavior (no definite positives, just generic behaviors), but it does that for all programs that interact at the low levels that this needs to. (I did make a full system backup 1st just in case ;)).
The Good
* Has all the features of Windows Task Manager.
* Gives detailed look at startup programs/processes.
* Estimates security risk for each program/process.
* Has an option to check a file with VirusTotal.com
* Has system tray icons to show CPU usage, Disk load, RAM usage, and Network traffic.
* Has “startup/homepage guard”.
* Has option to ‘tweak’ XP/Vista and lower boot time.
* Has a built in option to search tasks, processes, services, drivers, etc.
* Has a built in “Windows Control Panel” of sorts.
The Bad
* Uses up quiet a bit of CPU when maximized.
* Uses more RAM then Windows Task Manager.
* Interface seems to lag a bit.
* “Windows Tweaker” does not seem to identify which windows you are running (XP or Vista).
* Is identified as possible malware by K9 Web Protection and Kaspersky.
PMnet Verdict: I personally will not be using this software (although I will keep it in case I change my mind) mainly because most of what this program does can be done manually in Windows and I do not like the fact that it eats up a significant part of my CPU (I am on dual core nonetheless). But if you can handle the CPU usage, or if CPU is not used as much on your computer, this program is definitely a keeper.
Full Review: GOTDReviews.info
I was so impressed with this the first time it was given away I bought the Anvir Security centre and have never regretted it. If you don’t have this already, get it now as it’s an all round task manager solution plus more.
Today’s games have been posted over in the forums. I’ve posted a series of 15 short physics based games designed for the Experimental Gameplay Project:
http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4364
Today it’s not too bad like yesterday… but i think that if you don’t have a lot of ram it doesn’t work well… please let me know… i have 1gb of ram and intel centrino 1,73 ghz… thank you…
I got this deal previously at gotd, and was very happy with it.
Actually, I was so happy with it that I purchased the pro version and am also very happy with that.
Right at the beginning of the installation process, there is the option to NOT start the application after the installation is complete and another option to NOT open Avira website, after installation is complete. Although I set both options to NOT, still the installer opened Avira’s website and started the application.
About the application, I like it a lot but I have noticed that if I leave it running, it makes my system unstable so I almost never use it. I’d like it to run more stable in my system, because it seems to be a nice app, but so far, no luck.
Program found many left over Symantec Liveupdaters services ‘RUNNING’ even though my ‘trial’ expired months ago and I thought I had completely removed NAV from my system. They didn’t show up with Windows Task Mgr. (or Sysinternals process mgr!)
Like the interface, would like to see more Vista ‘tweaks’. Make for easy navigation to built-in Windows tools on Vista.
It would be nice to have this replace Windows Task Mgr right from Task bar.
Great GAOTD. thanks to all concerned. Thumbs up from me!
Man, I love this app. Definitely the best GOTD ever!
Excellent!!
Just got a new Comp last month and have been waiting for this to rerun.
#21: This program provides a plethora of advanced features that Windows Task Manager does not. If you are unable to recognize this fact, then either you have not read the program description or visited the AnVir WEb Site, or you simply are unable to benefit from AnVir’s extra functions anyway.
There are Windows Task Manager add-ons that improve its functionality, but AnVir still comes out tops. There also are other freeware programs that provide similar functionality to AnVir (some more, some less), several of which were cited by other commenters. BTW, I was surprised that no one mentioned an excellent freeware alternative, WinPatrol.
As for all of you who are concerned about antivirus and antispyware warnings about AnVir: I am not affiliated with AnVir in any way, so I cannot guarantee that their product is clean. But the most likely explanation for the antivirus alerts is that AnVir claims to include a basic antivirus database, which would contain signatures of common viruses. Antivirus programs often recognize other antivirus programs’ signature files as viruses, which is why it is never advised to use two antivirus programs at the same time.
I hope this is helpful.