Avast! Free version 2015.10.4.2233.1299

Program Interface: Russian

Platform:XP / 7 / Vista

Manufacturer: ALWIL Software

Web site: www.avast.com

Avast Free is a free anti-virus package created using the most modern technologies and is designed to protect, timely detect and block all kinds of viruses, spyware and malicious codes which currently exist in the world in great numbers.

Avast Malware is a free download for the Avast products.

Avast Free is a very powerful tool which works in conjunction with Avast Trojansky Labs to detect, block and eliminate all types of malware that can run infected or malicious programs. The database of this package is quite large, and heuristic analysis allows you to detect a threat before it causes any data damage. The action of the package is not limited to the anti-virus. It consists of several modules that autonomously monitor the computer.

The main component is the real-time file system screen. It tracks all changes connected with infected files. In other words, it is a scanner.

Of course, you can’t do without the Mail screen that monitors all incoming and outgoing messages controlling the presence of viruses, unwanted or spyware, and malicious codes in them.

The Web screen is used to monitor the Internet (which is where most threats come from, by the way). It is built into the browser and runs in the background. After all, it’s no secret. When you visit some sites (often dubious content) you can quite simply “catch” some kind of infection. The screen blocks sites or pop-ups if a suspected threat is detected, before your web browser recognizes them or the threat starts to take effect.

Likewise, Avast Free has a built-in system for tracking and preventing threats if peer-to-peer networks (P2P technologies) or Internet chat rooms are used. Recently, a huge number of threats began to come through applications such as ICQ and the like. In this case, the program monitors quite well all activities related to the use of such programs.

In order to prevent viruses, rootkits, spyware or malicious codes from penetrating through local networks, for example from other computers connected to the network, the so called network screen is used.

Finally, this software has a behavioral screen. If there is a suspicion that the entire operating system is malfunctioning, the program warns the user in advance that it is time to take action. But usually, it does not come to this, because the application modules block threats much earlier.

In conclusion, it remains to add that the program interface is fully russified, so there are no problems with using the whole complex of protection modules.