avast! Server Edition provides the most effective protection to fight virus infections on your server or servers.
It works both as primary protection of a file server itself and via its optional plug-ins, as protection for
various server subsystems, such as electronic mail or firewall/proxy. The program includes the latest version of
avast! antivirus kernel that features world-class detection abilities together with high performance. You can
expect 100% detection of In-the-Wild viruses and Trojan horses. avast! Server Edition is ready to work and even
supports large cluster and terminal servers. It includes direct support for cluster setup and a special wizard that makes the installation on cluster easier. The program has been fully tested with all editions of Windows Servers and has been stress tested even on machines with a large number of processors to verify exceptional robustness and scalability of its technology.
avast! Server Edition features an effective resident module that is able to detect the virus before it has any
chance to infect your computer. The file system protection ensures that no virus will be executed on startup and no virus will be even uploaded to it. The default settings of the resident protection are accommodated to the server environment - it offers thorough scanning. It is possible to adjust the settings to your requirements by specifying to scan the copied files or just files with given set of extensions. It also has "semi-silent" mode of operation and displays virus warnings on a server system. The program has an enhanced user interface that gives you access to its settings, thus making it possible to fully configure it for extensive scanning. It makes it possible to schedule the start of a particular task, both one-time and periodically.
avast! Server Edition includes a special notification manager where you can define notification objects and
associate them with antivirus tasks. The program has automatic updates that are incremental and only new data is
downloaded. It also has PUSH updates that are initialized by the program servers and they result in your computer
quickly responding and performing the necessary update. The program has virus chest that is thought of as a
Quarantine area on your disk having special properties that make it a safe isolated place suitable for storing
files. You can work with the files in the Chest with security restriction. The program has boot-time scan that is
performed during the start of the operating system, before the virus can get loaded/activated and preventing the
virus from spreading or taking actions to avoid being detected. It also has command-line Scanner so the scanning
can be controlled by many arguments and switches.
