Jun 15

Avast Antivirus 4.8 Home Edition – looks like Music Player!!

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avast 4.8

When the version number of a new software release is just 0.1 higher than the old one, I expect a ho-hum incremental update. So I was pleasantly surprised to find that Avast antivirus 4.8 Home Edition. adds significant functionality. It now protect against spyware, rootkid and other forms of nonvirus malicious software. Best of all, It’s free for personal use.

The $39.95 Professional Edition does include a few additional features. Its users can switch to an advanced user interface that allows more detailed configuration. It offers a command line scanner and the ability to schedule regular full scan. A script blocker watches for dangerous scripts on Web Pages, and its PUSH updates feature goes beyond the free version’s automatic update checking.

If you are using avast! in a business environment, you must purchase the Professional Edition. But the free Home Edition is 100 persent full-powered where it counts, clearing viruses and spyware off your system and preventing any new infestations.

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Jun 13

Ad-Aware 2008 Pro – Antivirus Review

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After some years of Lagging behing the market, Lavasoft got its flagship Ad-Aware 2008 Product back on track in 2007. Lavasoft’s new Ad-Aware 2008 Pro($39.95 direct) adds antivirus protechtion, and the combined virus/spyware scan is seriously effective at cleaning up malware-infested systems. But its real time protection module still doesn’t do a good job of keeping malwares from installing on a clean system. That component isn’t up to modern standards, which keeps the overall application, through much improved, from true greatness.

Ad-Aware 2008 Pro

Lavasoft licenses the integrated antivirus protection, new in this version, from Avira, makers of the AntiVir antivirus and Avira Premium Security suit 8. Confusingly, Ad-Aware’s settings dialogs refer to the antivirus module as Scanner Extension-don’t turn off that option!. Also note that Windows Security Center doesn’t recognize Ad-Aware as an antivirus program, so it will warn you that you may be unprotected.

The fully integrated virus/spyware scan runs on demand or on a daily, weekly, or monthly schedule. You can select a smart scan to save time by scanning only critical areas. But even the full scan is relatively speedy. It requires about 15 minutes on my standard clean system, whereas many competitors take half an hour or more. I’d recommended striking with full scan.

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