avast! File Server Protection

Core Protection

Antivirus and anti-spyware engine - Innovative scanning engine protects against viruses, spyware, and other malicious agents.

Heuristics engine - Proactively finds malware undetectable with normal definitions and virus signatures.

Real-time anti-rootkit protection - Prevents stealth malware (‘rootkits’) that, when loaded by the computer’s OS, are invisible to ordinary scanners.

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.

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.

Scheduled scanning - Allows users to define the scan time and files to be scanned.

Code emulator - Uses dynamic translation (a method much faster than traditional emulation) for both generic unpacking and within the heuristics engine.

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.

Potentially unwanted programs detection - Detects potentially unwanted programs, such as remote admin tools and commercial key loggers. Custom rules can be set for dealing with these types of programs.

SharePoint Server plug-in - Tightly integrates with SharePoint 2003/2007/2010 Servers via Microsoft's own AV interfaces.

Low resource usage - Stays light on system resources.