Overview
Destroy Viruses in Their Tracks
External PC attacks are on the rise accounting for 92% of all data breaches. With over 60,000 new unique pieces of malware emerging daily, anti-virus programs have never been more essential. Faronics AV is one of the best artillery weapons to defend your PC against viruses and malware available on the market today.

Lightening Fast Protection
Offering one of the highest rated anti-virus products with one of the fastest scan speeds, Faronics has you covered. Using the most advanced technology and built from the ground up, Faronics Anti-Virus protects your PC from malware threats including viruses, spyware, root-kits, and more. At up to 300% faster than competing AV solutions, it delivers unparalleled value.
Light as a Feather
Many AV programs slow down machines at start-up and bring them to a grinding halt while scanning. Not Faronics Anti-Virus. Armed with a small disk footprint and low RAM usage, Faronics Anti-Virus takes it easy on your CPU consumption allowing users to operate their computers with minimal impact. Full protection, but as light as a feather.
Deep Freeze Integration
Faronics Anti-Virus was designed to integrate seamlessly with Faronics Deep Freeze updating your machine while in frozen state. Since your AV program relies on the latest definition files to update its growing list of known threats, it’s only as good as the last update. Managed from a central Core Console, Faronics Anti-Virus provides the most up-to-date enterprise level protection hassle-free without scheduled Deep Freeze maintenance periods.
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The Layered Security Approach
With 60,000 new unique pieces of malware emerging daily, relying on one method of security alone is no longer enough. The Faronics Approach to layered security protects against multiple layers of potential threats on one central console, offering a simple, first-rate security system and peace of mind. Faronics Anti-Virus keeps the known threats out without compromising system performance and integrates seamlessly with Faronics Deep Freeze, which delivers enterprise-wide security against accidental or malicious damage with every reboot. Faronics Anti-Executable protects users while in-session and allows only approved applications to execute on your machines, providing total security for your business.
Total, Unrivaled Protection
- For the most complete protection, combine our lightweight and powerful Anti-Virus, the granular application control of Anti-Executable, with our award winning system restore application Deep Freeze.
- Control deployment, updates, maintenance, Deep Freeze state and operation of all workstations from the Faronics Core Console.
Powerful Security Protection
- The Layered Security bundle combines our lightweight, high performance Anti Virus with the granular application control of Anti Executable
- Managed centrally from the Faronics Core, the Layered Security Bundle is the easiest way to manage security over your network.
Technical Features
- Advanced anti root-kit technology
- High speed file scanning
- At least two definition updates a day
- USB devices scanned on connection
- Configuration and scan scheduling done via "policies" that are centrally applied to workstations
- Faronics Core provides a secure platform to manage anti-virus protection (definitions and threat engine updates) across the enterprise
High Performance Technology
- The MX-Virtualization™ engine analyzes malware in real-time, observing its behavior before it can actually infect the computer– ensuring zero-day threat detection
- Advanced anti-rootkit technology finds and disables dangerous hidden processes, modules, services, and files
- High speed file scanning
- Low CPU and memory usage during scans
- Efficient, continuous virus definition updates (at least two daily)
- Regular threat-engine updates
- Dynamic and sophisticated analysis of malware including heuristics, signature detection, file emulation and behavior detection
- USB devices are scanned upon connection
- Option to exclude folders and files from scans
Centralized Management & Integration
- Faronics Core provides a secure platform to manage anti-virus protection (definitions and threat-engine updates) across the enterprise
- Configuration and scan scheduling done via “policies” that are centrally applied to workstations
- Virus definition updates managed and hosted on Faronics Core Server
- Full global or workstation-specific threat reporting available via Faronics Core Console
- Out-of-the-box compatibility with Faronics Deep Freeze and Anti-Executable to provide a solid “layered security” strategy
- Ability to import/export anti-virus policies
Email Protection
- Comprehensive protection against email viruses
- Direct support for Outlook, Outlook Express and Windows Mail
- Supports any POP3- and SMTP-based email program
Enterprise Control
- Workstation grouping to simplify the management of large deployments
- Create workstation groups based on user-defined parameters, such as departments, physical locations, and user groups
Faronics Core Console
The Faronics Core Console allows you complete management and control of all your Faronics products over your entire network.
With the appropriate product load-ins, Faronics Core Console allows you to control program whitelisting, anti-virus, power-management, Windows environment and IT asset management.
All the features of Faronics software can be accessed and managed across your network from one or many core console locations.
Run detailed reports on one or multiple workstations, schedule automatic tasks and updates and keep log records, all from one central console.
Faronics Core Console implementation varies organization to organization. We recommend checking out our user guide, or downloading the Core Console package below.
Faronics Anti-Virus
Jerome’s team is in charge of protecting his company’s IT infrastructure. They had recently recognized the benefits of adopting a layered security strategy and had complemented their existing firewall by deploying Faronics Anti-Virus, Anti-Executable’s application whitelisting technology, and the instant system restore offered by Deep Freeze. With a large number of workstations to keep secure, they appreciated the simplicity of managing multiple Faronics solutions from one console via Faronics Core. All the workstation information they require is easily viewed in Core Console and they’ve grouped all their workstations by department for easier management.
The team adopted Faronics Anti-Virus as their AV solution of choice because of its integration with Deep Freeze. Thanks to the addition of Storage Spaces in Faronics Core, they can seamlessly perform their malware definitions and program updates while their computers are protected in a Frozen state.
As well, Jerome’s team can remotely perform or schedule any Faronics Anti-Virus tasks on individual workstations or any desired group. They’re able to create customized policies for updating, scanning or protecting groups of computers, and turn on/off the Email and Active protection features.
Using Faronics Core reporting ability, Jerome can regularly run detailed global workstation-specific reports to provide information on scan/protection history, quarantined files, threat severity, and affected workstations.
All Faronics Anti-Virus updates are hosted on Faronics Core Server so workstations can access them directly, and because of Core’s Active Task feature, the team knows that all configuration changes will be applied to a workstation, regardless of whether the affected computers are currently available or not. Tasks remain active until a target workstation is available which is particularly useful with laptops that are taken home.
As the company grows, Jerome knows he will be able to set up multiple Core Consoles so that departments can monitor and manage their own layered security deployment. Faronics Core’s scalable architecture simplifies this process greatly.
What others have said...
Not only is Faronics Anti-Virus the only solution which is fully compatible with Deep Freeze, but it is also faster, more network efficient and more effective against malware.Ballston Spa Central School District
Layered security is a no-brainer with the number of threats looming around.Glenpool Public Schools





