Skip to main content

Avast Antivirus 5 and Avast Internet Security Suite is about to release

Avast antivirus is one of the best free antivirus solution which provides a full bouquet of system protection, ranging from antivirus, anti-spyware, network intrusion prevention, rootkit scanning, mail scanning, web protection as well as P2P and messenger scanning.

Avast is planning to release a new version 5 and will be launched in October. Version 5 will be offered in three versions: a free AV, a paid AV and a full Internet Security suite. One important thing about this release is its new graphical interface which is designed to meet all users requirements.

According Avast blog post, the free AV will contain all the features from the existing Home Edition, plus a couple of new extras. The paid AV now includes a new virtualization module as well as all the features from the free. And finally, the Security suite adds an antispam and firewall module and will thus provide you with a complete, worry-free protection.

It is said that Avast antivirus 5 is designed to have a low memory consumption, Heuristic detection (proactive, available since version 4.8) and added detection of potentially unwanted programs (PUPS). (Via and image courtesy: Avast -blog)
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Please leave your valuable comment below

Popular posts from this blog

Surf the Web Anonymously With Firefox Add-on Phproxy

There are several web based proxy servers available to surf the internet anonymously or as from another country. The Firefox add-on (Firefox 3 – 4) Phzilla helps you view a webpage or surf the internet using the PHProxy (a type of web based proxy server) proxy servers. It is very easy and convenient to use.
2 comments
Read more

Restore Lost Capacity Of Your USB Flash Drive (How to)

Some malware can hide full capacity of your USB flash drive. For example, a 4GB pen drive sometimes shows only 500kb or less. An interesting part of this situation is that, even after removing the malware or formatting the USB flash drive, you will not get back its original capacity. Therefore, the question here is how to restore a USB flash drive to its full capacity.
58 comments
Read more

Disable automatic Meta refresh/redirect of websites in browser for security reasons[how to]

Generally speaking, Meta refresh is a method used by some websites to instruct a web browser to automatically refresh/redirect the current web page after a given time interval. You can see this type of refresh/redirect especially in media sites. This is some times annoying or can be used for malicious purposes by redirecting you to a malicious site. If you don’t like this feature, you can disable this in your browser. Here is how to disable this in Internet Explore/Chrome, Firefox and Opera. Internet Explorer: Go to Tools - Internet options - Security tab - Custom Level button - Miscellaneous category - set "Allow Meta refresh" to Disable. Firefox: Go to Tools - Options - Advanced - General - Accessibility and tick the option next to ‘Warn me when web sites try to redirect or reload the page’. Alternatively you can use extension RefreshBlocker . Opera: Go to Preferences - Advanced - Network and uncheck "Enable automatic redirection".
10 comments
Read more