Avast AntiVirus 2009 Pro 4.8.1282 | 28.3 Mb
avast! 4 Professional Edition is a collection of high-end technologies that work in perfect synergy, having one common goal: to give you the top grade protection against computer viruses. It represents an ideal solution for any Windows-based workstation.
avast! 4 Professional Edition is a complete ICSA certified antivirus software for your company. It obtained VB100% awards in 2002/4 Virus Bulletin comparative reviews.
avast! scans for viruses, worms and Trojans: On Demand – with two
User Interfaces, On Access, E-mail, during Boot Time, in File Explorer
and Screen Saver. It maintains Virus Chest. Protects E-mail, HTTP,
NNTP, ICQ, mIRC, Kazaa etc. True incremental updates based on iAVS
technology updates twice a week virus definition file.
avast! Home/Professional now fully supports the 64-bit Windows and Vista platforms.
Features:
- Antivirus kernel
- Simple User Interface
- Enhanced User Interface
- Resident protection
- Script Blocker (Professional Edition only
- P2P and IM Shields
- Network Shield
- Web Shield
- Automatic updates
- PUSH updates
- Virus Chest
- System integration
- Command-line scanner
- Integrated Virus Cleaner
- Support for 64-bit Windows / Vista
- Internationalization
*** Antivirus Kernel
New version of avast! antivirus kernel
features outstanding detection abilities, together with high
performance. You can expect 100% detection of In-the-Wild viruses (the
ones what are really spreading amongst people) and very good detection
of Trojan horses, all that with only a minimum number of false alarms.
The
kernel was certified by ICSA; it frequently takes part in the tests of
Virus Bulletin magazine, often yielding the VB100 award.
*** Simple User Interface
Simple User Interface is used to start
on-demand scanning, work with the results, change various options etc.
Basic resident protection settings can be modified here. Simple User
Interface is the main applicationof avast! 4 Home Edition. You can
start additional avast! modules from here, such as the Virus Chest,
Updater or Log Viewer.
*** Enhanced User Interface
Unlike the Simple User Interface, the
scanning is performed by so called “tasks”. First, you define a task,
including various parameters – areas to scan, what to scan, how to
scan, etc. Having the task, you can (possibly repeatedly) run it. Each
task generates a list of results; you can work with them later.
*** Resident protection
Resident protection, i.e. the real-time
protection of the computer, is one of the most important parts of an
antivirus program today. avast! features a powerful resident module
that is able to detect the virus before it has any chance to infect
your computer.
E-mail protection consists of two independent
modules; first, there is a generic scanner working on the
SMTP/POP3/IMAP4 protocol level. It is capable of protecting any
existing e-mail client that uses these protocols. Second, there is a
special plugin for MS Outlook only; it is completely transparent,
requiring no special settings.
New feature of version 4 is heuristic
analysis of e-mail scanners. It is extremely useful in protecting
against new, unknown viruses and worms that are not possible to detect
by the usual means. The heuristic module performs a thorough
investigation of every e-mail message and watches for suspicious signs
that might announce virus presence. When the number of those signs
exceeds the user-defined level, the message is considered dangerous and
the user is warned.
*** Script Blocker
The resident protection of the Professional
Edition includes an additional module, not contained in the Home
Edition – Script Blocker. This module watches all the scripts being
executed in the operating system (so called WSH scripts – Windows
Scripting Host). It also scans all the scripts run as a part of a web
page within your web browser (Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator and
Mozilla).
*** Automatic updates
Automatic updates are another key point in
virus protection. Both the virus database and the program itself can be
updated automatically.
*** PUSH updates
A special feature of the Professional Edition
are PUSH updates. It is a dramatic change in the philosophy of updates.
Usually, every installed program checks every now and then whether a
new version is available. PUSH updates, however, are initialized by our
server; they result in your computer quickly responding and performing
the necessary update. The system is based on the SMTP protocol, i.e. on
usual e-mail messages. The updates itself are controlled by the avast!
resident e-mail providers (MS Outlook and Internet Mail).
*** Virus Chest
The main properties of the Virus Chest are
complete isolation from the rest of the operating system (no outside
process, i.e. no virus either, may access the files inside) and the
fact that the files inside the Chest may not be run (i.e. there is no
danger in storing viruses there).
*** System integration
avast! antivirus features outstanding
integration into your system. The scanning can be started directly from
Windows Explorer, by clicking a folder or a file with your right mouse
button and selecting the corresponding choice from the menu.
Another
interesting feature is a special screen-saver that performs scanning
for viruses during its run-time. avast! antivirus works together with
your favorite screen-saver, so you don’t have to change to anything you
wouldn’t like.
Another new option is the boot-time scan (Windows
NT/2000/XP/.NET only). It is important in the case that a virus is
suspected to be active on your computer. The boot-time scan is
performed before the virus may get activated, so the virus cannot
influence the scanning in any way.
*** Command-line scanner
Experienced users may like another
Professional Edition feature – command-line scanner. The scanning can
be controlled by many arguments and switches; to use as a pipe filter,
a special STDIN/STDOUT mode is available.
The module is intended to
be used in BATCH programs. Its output is the same as the output from
the Enhanced User Interface tasks (including the report files).
