avast! Antivirus Professional Edition

avast! Pro software works on a install-and-forget basis which means, all major tasks such as virus detection, download of updates and disk scans are run automatically when it's needed without interrupting your work.

All your online activities are monitored on a continuous basis safeguarding your PC from dubious websites, programs you download from unknown sources and other careless online behavior.

avast! Antivirus Professional includes a mechanism that protects disk files from being deleted or altered by a virus. When a virus attempts to uninstall or damage avast! installation, a warning window will pop-up asking you for permission for the deinstallation. You will be also asked for confirmation when attempting to delete avast! antivirus via control panel.

The built-in self-protection mechanism effectively blocks malware from damaging avast! files. This effectively protects avast! from damage or unintentional deinstallation.

avast! antivirus not only protects you from viruses, but also blocks spyware, rootkits and worms from compromising your security while banking or shopping online.

avast! antivirus professional edition now supports Windows 64-bit and international languages.

avast! AntiVirus Professional Features Overview:

Real-time antivirus protection

avast! Professional Edition delivers continuous protection from viruses by residing in the computer's memory and analyzing what is happening in the system. This concept of software security is called real-time protection.

Real-time time resident protection stops viruses at the point of entry by scanning all incoming data, opened files, programs run, messages read and email attachments saved. Real-time protection ensures no malware makes its way to the core of the operating system, and effectively stops infections before they can actually hit you.

A new real-time feature added to version 4 of avast! antivirus is based on the heuristic method of detecting threats. Heuristics can sniff out viruses that are yet unsigned and block them. This is particularly important for newly emerging threats and zero-day viruses that have not yet been analyzed by avast! engineers but have already managed to spread thorough the Web.

Anti-spyware protection

Spying software aka spyware is a tiny application installed stealthy on your computer by a malicious program in order to sniff out lucrative information such as credit card numbers or online banking account passwords and to rely this information to remote hackers or criminals who either use this data to rob you or sell your financial information on the underground black market.

Spyware has become a major security concern in the recent years and having the right antispyware tool in place is a must for everyone who goes online these days.

avast! antivirus pro provides rock-solid protection against spyware blocking it from installing on your computer. However, if for some reason spyware is already present on your system, avast! will effectively block it from sending data any data to hackers and eventually remove spyware completely.

The Web Shield feature

You visit hundreds of websites every day but you're possibly not aware that many of them might contain malicious code, exploits or unsafe downloads. avast!'s Web Shield feature has been designed for frequent Internet users, who intensely download stuff from the Web or visit many sites a day to protect them from unsafe content and infections. avast! Antivirus Professional Edition with it's Web Shield feature enabled acts like a transparent Web proxy, scanning all incoming traffic for potential dangers. Despite of the fact that all traffic is "filtered" by the security shield, you won't ever notice any slowdown while visiting websites or downloading files. avast! is so quick in the scan, that no noticeable performance impact is generated. This is because of the "Intelligent Stream Scan" facility that scans data on-the-fly in the RAM memory without caching and dumping to disk.

The Web Shield feature is compatible with most of the modern Web browsers including Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Opera, Google Chrome and other.

Easy-to-operate User Interface

avast! Antivirus Professional Edition is designed for all audiences in mind so that even non-experienced computer users won't have the slightest difficulty installing and operating it.

After the installation, which takes only a couple of minutes, your resident protection will me instantaneously configured and activated for you. There's no need of any advanced configuration and default settings are just perfect for most users. For those looking to tweak their security settings, there are plenty of advanced configuration options available. Please refer to the screenshots attached to see avast! Professional in action.

If you're bored with avast! look-and-feel you can download and install additional skins that would change the application's appearance. avast! skins are available for download.

avast! interface gives you wide configuration and customization options. You can define tasks, schedule scans, designate areas to scan, review reports and scan results.

Rootkit protection

Rootkit is an opportunistic malware that is extremely hard to detect and thus very dangerous. Rootkits usually accompany a virus infection and even if your computer has been cleaned up of viruses, rootkits may still persist on some computers.

avast! Antivirus Professional makes use of the GMER to successfully detect and remove rootkits. avast! doesn't require rebooting to remove a rootkit. The infection is blocked until the next restart and it's completely removed when your computer reboots.

The Self-protection feature

Exceptionally aggressive viruses will try to disable or damage your antivirus protection prior to spreading infection in order to increase their chances to succeed.

To keep your resident protection up and working at all times, avast! includes the self-protection mechanism which prevents any software and human from disabling the antivirus protection. Even when you try to disable avast! manually or delete it from the control panel, a warning will pop up asking you for confirmation.

Support for archives and packed files

avast! antivirus engine is able to perform scans of compressed files and archives, reaching deeply into packed files. When you download a zipped file from the Internet, avast! will unpack it on-the-fly and scan for any threats in the archive contents. No need of manual unpacking to see if an archive is safe! avast handles the job automatically for you.

Safe P2P and Instant Messaging Communication

avast! Antivirus Professional Edition protects your AIM, MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger and other IM software. When a rough user sends you a virus via instant chat, avast! will remove them instantly in an automated fashion.

Blocking of malicious scripts

Compared to avast! Home Edition, this avast! Professional Edition includes the malicious script blocker feature that monitors WSH scripts occasionally run by the Windows operating system. Some WSH scripts and websites may contain bad or dangerous code that can expose you to a serious risk of data loss. avast! Professional is now able to block those scripts increasing your overall security level.

Automatic Virus Updates

avast! automatically fetches update files minutes after they are released to the public. There's no need to manually download and install updates. Download size is usually very small because only those files needed are fetched. This saves time and bandwidth while keeping your PC protected from the latest viruses at all times.

Full System Integration

avast! antivirus integrates seamlessly into your Windows operating system adding entries to Windows context menus, so that you can start virus scan directly from your favorite file explorer (e.g. Windows Explorer or Midnight Commander). With context menus you can easily choose files or folders or groups of folders that you want to be scanned. This is especially useful if you don't have time to scan whole disks but want to narrow the scan to the designated disk areas.

Command Line Scanner

Advanced users can now use scripting, batch files and command line tools to steer avast!'s behavior and you can even use pipes. For a complete list of the command line options please refer to the avast! support section.

Support for Windows 64-bit

avast! antivirus now fully supports Windows 64-bit. Please note that most popular home PC antivirus solutions available today do not support 64-bit versions of Windows. With avast!'s built-in Windows kernel drivers there's no need to worry about the underlying operating system. No matter which version of Windows you are using avast! will install on it automatically detecting your OS version and pre-compiling required kernel drivers for it.

Just download avast! Professional Edition and install it on your 64-bit Windows. It will run without any problems, guaranteed!

Support for multiple international languages

avast! antivirus is available in many languages including but not limited to English, German, French, Spanish, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese Simplified and Traditional, Russian, Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish.

Over 100,000,000 customers from all over the World are now using avast! so make sure to give it a try.