Avast! Professional Edition 4.8.1229

avast! Professional Edition is a complete ICSA certified antivirus package for small office home office use - SOHO.
Protect your system and valuable data against computer viruses with Avast! Professional Edition.
avast! 4 Professional Edition is a collection of award winning, high-end technologies that work in perfect synergy, having one common goal: to protect your system and valuable data against computer viruses. It represents a best-in-class solution for any Windows-based workstation. This page demonstrates its most important features and provides links to further resources.
Main features:
- Antivirus kernel
- Automatic updates
- Simple User Interface
- PUSH updates
- Enhanced User Interface
- Virus Chest
- Resident protection
- System integration
- Script blocker
- Command-line scanner
- P2P and IM Shields
- Integrated Virus Cleaner
- Network Shield
- Support for 64-bit Windows
- Web Shield
- Internationalization
System requirements:
For a computer running Windows 95/98/Me:
- 486 Processor, 32MB RAM and 50MB of free hard disk space.
For a computer running Windows NT 4.0:
- 486 Processor, 24MB RAM and 50MB of free hard disk space and Service Pack 3 (or higher) installed
For a computer running Windows 2000/XP Workstation (Not Server):
- Pentium class Processor, 64MB RAM (128MB recommended) and 50 MB of free hard disk space
For a computer running Windows XP 64-bit Edition:
- An AMD Athlon64, Opteron or Intel EM64T-enabled Pentium 4 / Xeon processor, 128MB RAM (256MB recommended) and 50 MB of free hard disk space
For a computer running Windows Vista:
- Pentium 4 processor, 512MB RAM and 50 MB of free hard disk space
- The program itself requires about 20MB of hard disk space; the remainder of the recommended space is reserved for the virus recovery database file and its index (VRDB, also known as the "integrity database" from the previous version).
- A functional MS Internet Explorer 4 or higher is required for the program to work.
NOTE:
This product cannot be installed on a server operating system (Windows NT/2000/2003 Server families).
Version restrictions:
- 60 days trial

Enhancements:
- solved incompatibility with System Safety Monitor
- improved compatibility of the self defense module with XP SP3 (and its installation)
- minor enhancements in the Web Shield (detection of streaming content)
- minor fixes in the updater