avast! 4 Home Edition is an antivirus package created exclusively for non-comercial use and home users. The program has Antivirus kernel that has outstanding detection abilities, together with high performance and ICSA certified. It scans for viruses, trojans and worms hidden in Alternate data streams on NTFS volumes. The program has a Simple User Interface very intuitive and from here you can start additional avast! modules such as the Virus Chest, Updater or Log Viewer. avast! 4 Home Edition has a Standard resident protection that can defend against new, unknown viruses and worms that are not possible to detect by the usual means. The Resident protection has specific MS Outlook plugin and heuristic analysis in e-mail modules. The program has P2P and IM Shields that doesn't need much explanation because today's P2P network's contain possibly thousand's of infected files, and operative coverage is essential.
avast! 4 Home Edition has a Network Shield that analyzes all network traffic and scans for malicious content. It's Web Shield offers the ability to monitor and filter all HTTP traffic coming from web sites on the Internet. The program has Automatic updates that guards your connection and tries to perform the update, having an up-to-date virus database. This antivirus program is the secure way to defend your PC. The program has a Virus chest who has the characteritics that are being kept in total isolation from the rest of the operating system. No outside processes, such as a virus, can enter and there is no danger in storing viruses there. The program has a System Integration that permits a user to urge scanning before a virus is activated, in the case that a virus is activated or it is suspected to be active already on your PC.
avast! 4 Home Edition has integrated avast! Virus Cleaner that is intended for a total removal of most common infections from already-infected computers. It fully sustains the 64-bit Windows platform. ALWILSoftware is anticipating massive growth of this platform, as Windows XP 64-Bit Edition will sustain up to 32 GB of RAM and 16 TB of virtual memory, enabling applications to run faster when working large data sets. The program has certain strong capability of direct repair (especially macroviruses) and repairing files using automatically generated Virus Recovery Database (VRDB).
