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AVAST! 4.8
Manufacturer:
Alwil Trade Ltd.
Version:
4.8
Overall Rating
Ease of Use
Effectiveness
Updates
Feature Set
Ease of Installation
Help/Support
Lowest Price:
$39.95
MANUFACTURER
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AVAST! Specifications
AVAST! Product Details
Features:
ANTIVIRUS KERNEL
Almost 100% detection
Outstanding performance
Reasonable memory requirements
ICSA certified
USER INTERFACE
Memory test during the program startup
Very intuitive Simple User Interface
Enhanced User Interface (MS Outlook style)
Testing of whole disks or just selected folders
Defining and running of antivirus tests
Working with the scan results - actions for infected files
Storing the scan results (history)
Virus encyclopedia
Log Viewer
Various appearances - skin support
Running from Explorer context menu
Antivirus screen-saver
Boot-time scan
Command-line scanner
UPDATES
The system of incremental updates guarantees low traffic
Updates can be completely automatic
Standard updates are provided 2 times a week
PUSH updates immediately when published
RESIDENT PROTECTION
Standard Shield protects the file system
Generic SMTP/POP3/IMAP4 scanner
Specific MS Outlook plugin
Heuristic analysis in e-mail modules
Script Blocker
REPAIRING
Certain strong capabilities of direct repair (especially macroviruses)
Repairing files using automatically generated Virus Recovery Database (VRDB)
OTHER
Task Scheduler
News delivery system: iNews
4 default preset tasks for typical scanning
Possibility to set any test details
Report files
PLATFORMS
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows Me
Windows NT 4 (No Server)
Windows 2000 (No Server)
Windows XP
Windows Vista
Lowest Price:
$39.95
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