Avira AntiVir Windows Professional was designed to be a comprehensive, easy to use antivirus program, that will offer reliable virus protection to business users worldwide.

NOTE:
You must obtain a test license in order to test the appllication.

Here are some key features of "Avira AntiVir Professional":

· Control Center for monitoring, administering and controlling the entire program

· Central configuration with user-friendly standard and advanced options and context-sensitive help

· Scanner (On-Demand Scan) with profile-controlled and configurable search for all known types of virus and malware

· Integration into the Windows Vista User Account Control allows you to carry out tasks requiring administrator rights

· Guard (On-Access Scan) for continuous monitoring of all file access attempts

· MailGuard (POP3 scanner and SMTP scanner) for the permanent checking of emails for viruses and malware. Checking of email attachments is included

· WebGuard for monitoring data and files transferred from the Internet using the HTTP protocol (monitoring of ports 80, 8080, 3128)

· Integrated quarantine management to isolate and process suspicious files

· Rootkit protection for detecting hidden malware installed in your computer system (rootkits)
· (Only for 32-bit systems)

· Direct access to detailed information on the detected viruses and malware via the Internet

· Simple and quick updates to the program, virus definitions, and search engine through Single File Update and incremental VDF updates via a webserver on the Internet or an intranet

· User-friendly licensing in License Manager

· Integrated Scheduler to plan one-off or recurring tasks, such as updates or test runs

· Extremely high virus and malware detection via innovative scanning technology (scan engine) including heuristic scanning method

· Detection of all conventional archive types including detection of nested archives and smart extension detection

· High-performance multithreading function (simultaneous high-speed scanning of multiple files)

Requirements:

· At least 192 MB RAM (Windows XP or Professional)
· At least 512 MB RAM (Windows Vista)
· 40 MB + quarantine
· 100 MB (temporary)

Limitations:

· 30 days trial license

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Version 8 offers: integrated WebGuard, an enhanced interface, a modularized AV-search engine for improved scan performance, AntiBot and AntiDrive-by and a new module: Rescue Systems.