Saturday, November 14, 2009

Avast Anti-Virus 4 Free Home Edition

It is very a very simple program to install and use, setup, and if it is fully automated. With continued frequent automatic updates protects your computer with little intervention required by the user.

It includes the following components and features:

Anti-spyware, anti-rootkit, antivirus kernel, automatic updates, Integrated Virus Cleaner, International Languages, Network Shield, P2P and IM Shields, Resident Protection, Simple User Interface, StrongSelf-protection, support for 64-bit Windows systems, systems integration, Virus Chest, Web Shield.

An on-demand scanner with a simple interface, just select what you want and how you want to scan and press the Play button.

An on-access scanner, with provision for the protection of most e-mail clients.

Instant messaging protection.

Network traffic with intrusion detection and a lightweight firewall.

P2P protection for Kazaa, BitTorrent, etc.

Web shieldmonitors and filters all HTTP traffic.

NNTP scanner that all Usenet Newsgroup traffic and all operations with files on the PC scans.

Boot time scanner, hard disks in the same way Windows CHKDSK scan.

This software provides the same protection of many well-known anti-virus programs, but it is completely free and uses very little resources, even if it constantly monitors all your connections and activities.

It protects your PC and network with multipleSigns, the scanning programs and files. You can select the parameters for scanning and choose wildcards to exclude certain file types. You can set the sensitivity level for detection of the program for scanning of downloaded files, instant messages, emails, and most of P2P's. It is a powerful interface allowing users to manipulate the settings, to provide advanced protection, whether you are a beginner or an experienced user.

It also has a boot-time antivirus scan, which may take a littleTime, but you can quit if you do not want by pressing the Esc key to wait. If a malicious contents are detected, Avast is with some very useful virus clean-up tools provided. You can also block certain URLs and file operations, such as writing files, renaming, deleting or formatting them.

It provides immediate protection in real-time, regular updates, and much more, it is certainly worth using.



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