avast! 4 Professional is an interesting set of award winning, high-end technologies that work in excellent combined action, having one common goal: to defend your system and valuable data against computer viruses. It is the best-in-class answer for any Windows-based workstation. The program has Antivirus kernel and outstanding detection abilities, together with high performance. avast! 4 Professional scans for viruses hidden in Alternate data streams on NTFS volumes. The program has a Simple User Interface from where you can start additional avast! modules such as the Virus Chest, Updater or Log Viewer. It has an Enhanced user Interface that it gives you access to all characteristics and possibilities for extensive scanning control. The program has a Resident protection that can defend your PC against new, unknown viruses and worms that are not possible to detect by the usual means.
avast! 4 Professional has a Script Blocker that watches all scripts being executed in the operating system and scans all the scripts run as a part of web page within your browser. It has P2P and IM Shields that doesn't need much explanation because today's P2P network's contain possibly thousands of infected files, and operative protection is essential. The program 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 watches your connection and tries to execute the update. It has Push updates that are initialized by the avast! server. The program has a Virus chest who has properties that are being kept in total isolation from the rest of the operating system and no outside processes, such as a virus, can enter and there is no danger in storing viruses there.
avast! 4 Professional has a System Integration that permits a user to urge scanning before a virus is activated, in the case that a virus is activated. The program has a Command-line scanner and its output is the same as the output from Enhanced User Interface tasks (including the report files). It has integrated avast! Virus Cleaner that is planned for a total elimination of most common infections from already-infected computers. The program fully sustains the 64-bit Windows platform. It has certain strong capability of direct repair (especially macroviruses) and repairing files using automatically generated Virus Recovery Database (VRDB).
