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 computer viruses, spyware and rootkits. 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.
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)
Windows Vista
Changes in Version 4.8.1169
avast! now contains a built-in anti-rootkit protection
avast! now comes with a built-in anti-spyware protection
new self-defense function to prevent active malware from terminating avast! processes as well as corrupting avast! files and registry items
scanners now display a progress of current scan (percentage of work done)
fixed a vulnerability in AavmKer4.sys kernel-mode driver (problem applies to Windows NT/2000/XP, 32-bit only); special thanks to Tobias Klein
improvements in boot-time scanner (detection & removal of hidden or hard to delete files)
boot-time scanner will not start when booting into Safe Mode (the program was "invisible" in that case, no progress/messages could be seen)
improvements in many unpackers
ACE and RAR unpackers now work even in boot-time scanner
IM Shield: added support for QQ
improvements in handling of NTFS streams
Internet Mail provider now displays the name of the sending/receiving program in the tooltip of its taskbar icon
implemented a protection against false positives in critical system files
removed a small memory leak in one of avast! drivers (Windows Vista and XP 64-bit only)
added support for 64-bit WHS connector (available in WHS Power Pack 1)
greatly improved performance of the updater, especially in cases where many increments are being downloaded (e.g. avast! installations with outdated virus definitions)
silent installation now also includes scheduled tasks, if any
resolved a compatibility issue with Acronis TrueImage (XP 64-bit only)
compatibility tests with Vista SP1 and XP SP3
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)
Windows Vista
Changes in Version 4.8.1169
avast! now contains a built-in anti-rootkit protection
avast! now comes with a built-in anti-spyware protection
new self-defense function to prevent active malware from terminating avast! processes as well as corrupting avast! files and registry items
scanners now display a progress of current scan (percentage of work done)
fixed a vulnerability in AavmKer4.sys kernel-mode driver (problem applies to Windows NT/2000/XP, 32-bit only); special thanks to Tobias Klein
improvements in boot-time scanner (detection & removal of hidden or hard to delete files)
boot-time scanner will not start when booting into Safe Mode (the program was "invisible" in that case, no progress/messages could be seen)
improvements in many unpackers
ACE and RAR unpackers now work even in boot-time scanner
IM Shield: added support for QQ
improvements in handling of NTFS streams
Internet Mail provider now displays the name of the sending/receiving program in the tooltip of its taskbar icon
implemented a protection against false positives in critical system files
removed a small memory leak in one of avast! drivers (Windows Vista and XP 64-bit only)
added support for 64-bit WHS connector (available in WHS Power Pack 1)
greatly improved performance of the updater, especially in cases where many increments are being downloaded (e.g. avast! installations with outdated virus definitions)
silent installation now also includes scheduled tasks, if any
resolved a compatibility issue with Acronis TrueImage (XP 64-bit only)
compatibility tests with Vista SP1 and XP SP3
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