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avast! 4 Professional Edition - antivirus for Microsoft Windows

avast! 4 Professional Edition is a collection of award winning, high-end technologies that work in perfect synergy, having one common goal: to protect your system and valuable data against omputer viruses. It represents a best-in-class solution for any Windows-based workstation. This page demonstrates its most important features and provides links to further resources.
The latest version of this program is 4.7.
Features overview

Antivirus kernel Automatic updates

Simple User Interface PUSH updates

Enhanced User Interface Virus Chest

Resident protection System integration

Script blocker Command-line scanner

P2P and IM Shields Integrated Virus Cleaner

Network Shield Support for 64-bit Windows

Web Shield Internationalization

Main 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 (No Server)

Size : 13 MB