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avast! Free Antivirus Gets Even Better with avast! 6.0

by jessica on Thu, 2011-02-24 14:40


avast! 6.0 Free Anitvirus

There's no need to pay lots of money for an (often overpriced) antivirus program. The new avast! Free Anitvirus 6.0 is packed with advanced capabilities you won't find in your mainstream antivirus product.

Here are six good reasons why you should remove antivirus products such as Norton or McAfee and install the new avast! Free Antivirus 6.0.

1. AutoSandbox - The first automatic virtualization feature in a major antivirus package.

AutoSandbox identifies suspicious applications and automatically prompts users to run them in a safe virtual environment. "If the item is dangerous, the virtual computer is shut down and the user's real machine remains safe. And, if the item is safe, there is no hassle from a false positive," stated Ondrej Vlcek, CTO of AVAST Software.Read more

AVAST Antivirus Warns Consumers to Beware of America's Most Wanted Websites

June 16, 2010 – This summer, consumers will continue to scour the web to keep up with their interests and news. While surfing the Internet is statistically safer than, say surfing in Hawaii, it is not a risk free activity. Around 85 percent of new computer infections are contracted via the internet; largely through the 396,679 hijacked and malicious web pages which avast! identified in May.

Landing on an infected site is as simple as just looking for something … games, Hollywood gossip, even recipes. To keep Americans protected during the hectic summer, AVAST Software, providers of the avast! antivirus program, has released the first of its "America's Most Wanted" roster of the most infected websites, alerting consumers to beware of the month's infected websites as well as trends and site genres to approach with caution. Read more

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