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avast! 4 Home Edition v4.6.691
Overview :
avast! 4 Home Edition is a full-featured antivirus package designed
exclusively for home users. 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 - Testing whole disks or
selected folders - Working with the scan results - actions with
infected files - Virus encyclopedia - Log Viewer - Various appearances
- skin support - Running from Explorer context menu - Antivirus
screen-saver. UPDATES: The system of incremental updates guarantees low
traffic - The updates can be completely automatic. RESIDENT PROTECTION:
Standard Shield protects the file system - Generic SMTP/POP3/IMAP4
scanner - Specific MS Outlook plugin - Heuristic analysis in e-mail
modules. REPAIRING: Limited capability of direct repair (especially
macroviruses) - Repairing files using automatically generated Virus
Recovery Database (VRDB).
What's New:
* further improvements in executable unpackers (WinExec)
* WinExec unpackers are now supported even by the boot-time scanner
* changes in ACE unpacker: security fixes
* Web Shield: fixed a bug that could cause even crash of the
ashWebSv.exe process (in module wshtcpip.sys)
* Web Shield: fixed a bug that could cause crash of the process while
terminating
* Web Shield: removed event handle leak
* Web Shield: fixed a bug related to HTTP status 100-Continue
* Web Shield: fixed parsing of HTTP response for the HEAD request - now
"Save Link As" in Firefox works correctly
* Standard Shield: removed potential problem (that could lead even to
system hangup) while testing network-based files under Windows XP
* P2P Shield: added support for KCeasy
* IM Shield: added support for SIM (Simple Instant Messenger), PalTalk
Messenger and Tlen
* fixed loading of default config values in resident providers
* now the Silent mode in the Outlook/Exchange plugin works
* added new GUI items (global program settings)
* added the ability of not displaying of popup messages while a
full-screen app is running (e.g. a game)
* fixes in the mail scanner: handling of redirect (for the Calypso
program); bug "server has closed the connection" while reading news
* added more comprehensive handling of expired licenses
* minor fixes and enhancements in selected unpackers (ZIP, MIME, TAR)
* improved warning on log off when removable media are present
* minor changes in avast sounds
* VRDB generation when idle is now not started if current CPU load is
15% or higher
Homepage: http://www.avast.com/
For related software, check out:
http://www.arjan.org/?Security:Anti-Virus
Kind regards,
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Arjan
E-mail: (e-mail address removed) (remove NOSPAM)
Homepage: Arjan.org's Absolute Freeware Links (http://www.arjan.org)
Overview :
avast! 4 Home Edition is a full-featured antivirus package designed
exclusively for home users. 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 - Testing whole disks or
selected folders - Working with the scan results - actions with
infected files - Virus encyclopedia - Log Viewer - Various appearances
- skin support - Running from Explorer context menu - Antivirus
screen-saver. UPDATES: The system of incremental updates guarantees low
traffic - The updates can be completely automatic. RESIDENT PROTECTION:
Standard Shield protects the file system - Generic SMTP/POP3/IMAP4
scanner - Specific MS Outlook plugin - Heuristic analysis in e-mail
modules. REPAIRING: Limited capability of direct repair (especially
macroviruses) - Repairing files using automatically generated Virus
Recovery Database (VRDB).
What's New:
* further improvements in executable unpackers (WinExec)
* WinExec unpackers are now supported even by the boot-time scanner
* changes in ACE unpacker: security fixes
* Web Shield: fixed a bug that could cause even crash of the
ashWebSv.exe process (in module wshtcpip.sys)
* Web Shield: fixed a bug that could cause crash of the process while
terminating
* Web Shield: removed event handle leak
* Web Shield: fixed a bug related to HTTP status 100-Continue
* Web Shield: fixed parsing of HTTP response for the HEAD request - now
"Save Link As" in Firefox works correctly
* Standard Shield: removed potential problem (that could lead even to
system hangup) while testing network-based files under Windows XP
* P2P Shield: added support for KCeasy
* IM Shield: added support for SIM (Simple Instant Messenger), PalTalk
Messenger and Tlen
* fixed loading of default config values in resident providers
* now the Silent mode in the Outlook/Exchange plugin works
* added new GUI items (global program settings)
* added the ability of not displaying of popup messages while a
full-screen app is running (e.g. a game)
* fixes in the mail scanner: handling of redirect (for the Calypso
program); bug "server has closed the connection" while reading news
* added more comprehensive handling of expired licenses
* minor fixes and enhancements in selected unpackers (ZIP, MIME, TAR)
* improved warning on log off when removable media are present
* minor changes in avast sounds
* VRDB generation when idle is now not started if current CPU load is
15% or higher
Homepage: http://www.avast.com/
For related software, check out:
http://www.arjan.org/?Security:Anti-Virus
Kind regards,
_____
Arjan
E-mail: (e-mail address removed) (remove NOSPAM)
Homepage: Arjan.org's Absolute Freeware Links (http://www.arjan.org)