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Surf the Internet to meet new friends and keep up to date on what is happening in the world every day for many of us is now a habit during which often lower our guard when we visit sites strangers who ask us to download navigation tools necessary to receive or when e-mail with attachments from perfect strangers.
To avoid unpleasant incidents during the navigation and keep clean our PCs, our weapon is a good virus but we need to keep updated otherwise we do not need to nothing.

Those who can not or do not want to spend money on anti-virus can rely to avast! Home Edition, because it is absolutely free for home use, non-commercial. Companies should instead, wanted to use if avast! Must buy the license, the same applies to public institutions but also the manufacturer guarantees discounts for non-profit associations, educational institutions and government.

Avast! Antivirus is developed since 1988 by AWIL Software as a company in the Czech Republic. Initially, the software was distributed only in language but czech now boasts a distribution in 25 different languages and in October 2007 has reached its registration 40 millionth customer for the program avast! Antivirus Home Edition.

The program with its new version of the kernel has a very good ability to detect viruses on the network and blocking most trojans.

Let's see what are the characteristics of avast! Antivirus:

Protection resident Standard

A powerful form resident discovered the first virus that infected the computer and denies access to the machine.
This module also controls the files on the computer system and e-mail.
The protection of system files ensures that no virus will be loaded on the PC.
The e-mail is checked whether the user is working on protocols SMTP/POP3/IMAP4 is through a special plug-in eg MS Outlook.
The mail is also controlled with the "scanning heuristics" that deals with the body of the email and any attachments before alerting download mail happened if the mail viruses.

P2P and IM Protection

Avast! Has a module for the protection of IM (Instant Messaging, chat), and a module for the protection of P2P (peer-to-peer) supporting over 30 of this program.

Network Security

Only NT systems (Windows NT/2000/XP/2003) as a 'firewall light provides protection against worms and attacks from the Internet analyzing all network traffic and content checking
possibly dangerous.

Web Security

Protecting Web filters and monitors all traffic coming from HTTP Web sites on the Internet, working as transparent HTTP proxy

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