Avast! Internet Security - is a suite of applications designed to protect your computer from potential viruses and other threats from malicious software.
Proposed enhanced version 5.0 Premium also includes a number of additional functions, including display module virtualization scenarios and processes, and the package avast! Internet Security 5.0 includes antivirus engine, anti-rootkit protection, anti-spyware protection, script shield, process virtualization,command line scanner, anti-spam filter, and built-in firewall.
Avast Internet security includes all the features of the free Avast anti virus and Firewall, and antispam. Once installed, avast runs silently in the background to protect your computer against all known forms of malware with a real time virus protection. Avast Internet Security also fully integrated antispam filter to detect unwanted email.
Avast Internet Security provides complete computer security. It is designed for people that shop and bank via the internet or store sensitive data on their computers. Internet Security provides three new security features not in the Free Antivirus that work together to ensure that your banking, financial, and sensitive data is protected from hackers.
The Silent Firewall provides nearly automatic control of inbound and outbound traffic with a white list of over 50,000 applications, digital signatures from renowned vendors, and coordinated operation with avast protective shields.
The new antispam filter makes keeping the spam out easy with its single control interface. It identifies more than 98 percent of spam with near-zero false positives.
"Sandbox" process virtualization creates a virtual computer to test suspect files and insulate the real computer from any damage caused by active malware.
Key features and benefits of avast! Internet Security 5:
- Lets you safely browse suspicious websites or run unknown applications
- Continuous protection against viruses and spyware
- Ensures all mails sent and received are clean
- Keeps you protected from "chat" infections
- Compatible with Windows XP, Vista and 7
- Stops attacks from hijacked websites
- Allows safe and uninterrupted gaming
- New user interface
Key technologies of avast! Internet Security 5:
- Antivirus and anti-spyware engine
- avast! Sandbox
- Silent Firewall
- Antispam
- Behavior Shield
- avast! Intelligent Scanner
- Silent/Gaming Mode
- Real time anti-rootkit protection
- avast! Community IQ
- Behavioral Honeypots
- Smart virus updates
- Green computing
- avast! iTrack
- File System / Mail Shield
- Web Shield
- IM / P2P Shield
- Network Shield
- Script Shield
Most important changes in avast! 5.0.677:
- Solved a problem that could lead to disappearing of the avast service
- Behavior Shield: solved minor stability issue (aswSP.sys) + solved a Win7 issue
- Performance and stability improvements in the avast! sandbox
- Engine changes allowing to generically detect/block some new types of exploits
- Fixed a bug where the File System Shield was scanning some files even after being disabled
- Speed improvements in the updater
- IS: fixed a vulnerability in aswFw.sys (Secunia Advisory SA40868)
- Solved a vulnerability related to license files (Secunia Advisory SA41109)
- Solved a problem with scanning of files with very long path names
- Fixed the updater in East-Asian versions of avast running with Windows set to a different locale
- IS: improvements in the Outlook antispam plugin
- IS firewall: improvement in the path name matching
- IS: upgraded to the new version of antispam engine
- Minor changes and fixes in the GUI
- Fixes in the screen reader support
- Added trimming of setup.log
- Added Danish, Hebrew and Urdu language packs
System Requirements avast! Internet Security 5:
- Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7 (32/64 bit)
- Processor Pentium 3
- 128 MB RAM
- 100 MB of free hard disk space
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Everything works fine, with one exception. After clicking on firewall tab, the program freezes up. Hard to manage settings if that is the case. Any suggestions?
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