avast! Pro Antivirus
Core Technologies
Antivirus and anti-spyware engine - Innovative scanning engine protects against viruses, spyware, and other malicious agents.
Real-time anti-rootkit protection - Prevents stealth malware (‘rootkits’) that, when loaded by the computer’s OS, are invisible to ordinary scanners.
Silent Firewall avast! Internet Security only - Stops hackers, using heuristic and behavioral analysis and a white list of safe applications.
Antispam avast! Internet Security only - Comprehensive spam and phishing filter, which works as a plug-in to MS Outlook and a generic POP3/IMAP4 proxy for other email clients.
avast! WebRep - Provides website reliability and reputation ratings according to community-provided feedback.
avast! CommunityIQ - Our technology uses a global network of sensors to provide us with data taken (anonymously) from the actual web-browsing experiences of an opt-in group of avast! users. This info is then used to protect all avast! users with the most up-to-date information on viruses and infected websites.
Because of avast! CommunityIQ, avast! has discovered 2,558 infected websites and protected 133,166,738 people from visiting them in the last 30 days.
Hi-Tech Features
Boot-time scanner - Scans your computer for infections before the OS can start to activate any viruses beneath it (now applies also to 64-bit versions of Windows 7 and Windows Vista).
avast! SafeZone™ - Opens a new (clean) desktop so that other applications don’t see what’s happening – perfect for banking or secure ordering/shopping – and leaves no traces once it’s closed.
AutoSandbox - Prompts users to run suspicious applications in the virtual Sandbox environment.
avast! Sandbox - Provides an extra layer of security for you to run your PC and its applications in a virtual environment – where any attacks are thus targeted (instead of your real PC).
Intelligent Scanner - Reduces the number of required file scans up to 80% through a white list of safe applications. Files identified as safe are not rescanned unless they change.
Silent/Gaming Mode - Automatically detects full-screen applications and disables pop-ups and other notifications without compromising security.
Green computing - Leaves a minimal “footprint” due to its efficient and effective technology.
avast! Real-time Shields – a team of 24/7 guards
File System Shield - Real-time scanning of opened/executed files.
Mail Shield - Scans all incoming/outgoing email for malware (a special plug-in is used for MS Outlook).
Web Shield - Scans all visited web pages, downloaded files, and java scripts. Thanks to the intelligent stream scanning feature, the Web Shield doesn't slow your web browsing.
P2P Shield/IM Shield - Checks files downloaded via P2P programs and while using IM or “chat” programs.
Network Shield - Protects against network-based viruses with two main components: a URL blocker for malicious URLs, and a lightweight intrusion-detection system.
Script Shield - Detects malicious scripts hidden in web pages and prevents them from hijacking and potentially damaging your computer.
Behavior Shield - Stops ‘zero-day’ threats and unknown malware before virus definitions have been obtained.
Others
64-bit support - Supports the 64-bit architecture platforms of Windows 7 and Windows Vista.
Heuristics engine - Proactively finds malware undetectable with normal definitions and virus signatures.
Code emulator - Uses dynamic translation (a method much faster than traditional emulation) for both generic unpacking and within the heuristics engine.
Automatic processing - Infected files are processed automatically, without requiring user instructions.
Smart virus definition updates - Incremental updating minimizes the size of regular update files.
Fast application of updates - New format for the virus definition file means faster updates and reduces demand on CPU/memory, for uninterrupted computing.
Multi-threaded scanning optimization - Allows the splitting of large files between cores, which accelerates the scanning process on new multi-core CPUs and makes avast! run even faster.
Wake-up/Scheduled scanning - Schedule scanning at night or whenever you don’t need to use your PC.
Command-line scanner - Runs a scan directly from the command line.
Antivirus and anti-spyware engine - Innovative scanning engine protects against viruses, spyware, and other malicious agents.
Real-time anti-rootkit protection - Prevents stealth malware (‘rootkits’) that, when loaded by the computer’s OS, are invisible to ordinary scanners.
Silent Firewall avast! Internet Security only - Stops hackers, using heuristic and behavioral analysis and a white list of safe applications.
Antispam avast! Internet Security only - Comprehensive spam and phishing filter, which works as a plug-in to MS Outlook and a generic POP3/IMAP4 proxy for other email clients.
avast! WebRep - Provides website reliability and reputation ratings according to community-provided feedback.
avast! CommunityIQ - Our technology uses a global network of sensors to provide us with data taken (anonymously) from the actual web-browsing experiences of an opt-in group of avast! users. This info is then used to protect all avast! users with the most up-to-date information on viruses and infected websites.
Because of avast! CommunityIQ, avast! has discovered 2,558 infected websites and protected 133,166,738 people from visiting them in the last 30 days.
Hi-Tech Features
Boot-time scanner - Scans your computer for infections before the OS can start to activate any viruses beneath it (now applies also to 64-bit versions of Windows 7 and Windows Vista).
avast! SafeZone™ - Opens a new (clean) desktop so that other applications don’t see what’s happening – perfect for banking or secure ordering/shopping – and leaves no traces once it’s closed.
AutoSandbox - Prompts users to run suspicious applications in the virtual Sandbox environment.
avast! Sandbox - Provides an extra layer of security for you to run your PC and its applications in a virtual environment – where any attacks are thus targeted (instead of your real PC).
Intelligent Scanner - Reduces the number of required file scans up to 80% through a white list of safe applications. Files identified as safe are not rescanned unless they change.
Silent/Gaming Mode - Automatically detects full-screen applications and disables pop-ups and other notifications without compromising security.
Green computing - Leaves a minimal “footprint” due to its efficient and effective technology.
avast! Real-time Shields – a team of 24/7 guards
File System Shield - Real-time scanning of opened/executed files.
Mail Shield - Scans all incoming/outgoing email for malware (a special plug-in is used for MS Outlook).
Web Shield - Scans all visited web pages, downloaded files, and java scripts. Thanks to the intelligent stream scanning feature, the Web Shield doesn't slow your web browsing.
P2P Shield/IM Shield - Checks files downloaded via P2P programs and while using IM or “chat” programs.
Network Shield - Protects against network-based viruses with two main components: a URL blocker for malicious URLs, and a lightweight intrusion-detection system.
Script Shield - Detects malicious scripts hidden in web pages and prevents them from hijacking and potentially damaging your computer.
Behavior Shield - Stops ‘zero-day’ threats and unknown malware before virus definitions have been obtained.
Others
64-bit support - Supports the 64-bit architecture platforms of Windows 7 and Windows Vista.
Heuristics engine - Proactively finds malware undetectable with normal definitions and virus signatures.
Code emulator - Uses dynamic translation (a method much faster than traditional emulation) for both generic unpacking and within the heuristics engine.
Automatic processing - Infected files are processed automatically, without requiring user instructions.
Smart virus definition updates - Incremental updating minimizes the size of regular update files.
Fast application of updates - New format for the virus definition file means faster updates and reduces demand on CPU/memory, for uninterrupted computing.
Multi-threaded scanning optimization - Allows the splitting of large files between cores, which accelerates the scanning process on new multi-core CPUs and makes avast! run even faster.
Wake-up/Scheduled scanning - Schedule scanning at night or whenever you don’t need to use your PC.
Command-line scanner - Runs a scan directly from the command line.
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Tested and Certified:
avast! antivirus is regularly tested and
certified by three major authorities:
- Virus Bulletin
- ICSA Labs
- West Coast Labs
Other testing is done by the independent
non-profit organization AV-Comparatives.
Of more than a dozen antivirus products
compared, avast! is consistently one of
the top performers.
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