avast! Linux Home Edition

avast! Linux Home Edition represents an antivirus solution for the increasingly popular Linux platform. This software is designed exclusively for home users and non-commercial use. Both of these conditions should be met! Our company offers the Home Edition free of charge, since, in our opinion, it is possible to avoid global virus spreading by efficient prevention; however, many user are not able to or do not want to pay for antivirus software. This page will show you the most important features of this program. Institutions (even non-commercial ones) are not allowed to use avast! Linux Home Edition. A Linux version of avast! designed for commercial deployment (including an ADNM connector) will be released in approx. Q3 2006.

avast! Home Edition downloaden, registreren en gebruiken?
Bedrijven en Instellingen (ook de niet commerciële) mogen de avast! Home editie NIET gebruiken. Wij hanteren daarentegen wel speciale kortingen voor non-profit, liefdadigheids, onderwijs, zorg en overheidsinstellingen op de volledige avast! productlijn.

Na downloaden moet u registreren voor 1 jaar GRATIS gebruik van avast! Home edition. Na het eerste jaar kunt weer gewoon opnieuw registreren voor nog een jaar gratis gebruik van de software. (klik op onderstaande link en vul emailadres en persoonsgegevens in, de licentiecode wordt per mail toegestuurd)

Onderstaande link geeft toegang tot een instructie filmpje over hoe men een avast! Home Edtie licentie kan installeren. Helaas is dit filmpje in de engelse taal, maar is toch heel goed te volgen. wij hopen u dit filmpje binnenkort in het nederlands aan te kunnen bieden.

Features Overview

Antivirus kernel	Automatic updates
User Interface	Virus Chest
Command line scanner	Internationalization

Antivirus kernel
The antivirus kernel of avast! For Linux is identical to the one for Windows systems, which means that all high-end features, typical for AV kernels on Windows, are included in the Linux version too. The latest version of avast! antivirus kernel features outstanding detection abilities, together with high performance. You can expect 100% detection of In-the-Wild viruses (viruses already spreading between users) and excellent detection of Trojan horses with minimum of false positives.The kernel is certified by ICSA Labs; it frequently takes part in the tests of Virus Bulletin magazine, often yielding the VB100 award. Like avast! for Windows, avast! engine for Linux also features outstanding unpacking support. It can scan inside almost the same number of archives as under Windows, with the exception of MAPI, CAB, ACE, CHM, 7ZIP and NTFS streams. The following archives can be scanned: ARJ, ZIP, MIME (+ all associated formats), DBX (Outlook Express archives), RAR, TAR, GZIP, BZIP2, ZOO, ARC, LHA/LHX, TNEF (winmail.dat), CPIO, RPM, ISO, and SIS. It also supports a number of executable packers (such as PKLite, Diet, UPX, ASPack, FSG, MEW, etc.).

User Interface
The Simple User Interface is used to start on-demand scanning, work with the results and change various options of the scan. The user interface requires GTK+ 2.x libraries. If you do not have these libraries installed on your system, the libraries from the installation package will be used.

Command-line scanner
Experienced users will appreciate a classic on-demand scanner, controlled from the command line. It allows to scan files in specified directories and both on local and remote volumes. Of course, the command line scanner also works on volumes mounted over network. The program is very flexible; it accepts a lot of additional arguments and switches. It is able to generate extensive report files that can be used for analysis.
The scanner is able to run in STDIN/STDOUT mode as a pipe filter. This mode is intended to be used in shell scripts.

Automatic updates
The updates of the virus database are another key need in virus protection. Avast! is usually updated at least 3 times a week (and during virus outbreaks, even multiple times a day), providing you with the most up-to-date definitions to efficiently fight against latest threats.

Virus Chest
The Linux version also has a chest directory where suspicious files are stored. These files can be deleted, or it is possible to work with them later. It is also possible to submit the files to our virus lab for further analysis.

Internationalization
Currently, avast! for Linux is available in the following languages: English, Czech.

Main Features

ANTIVIRUS KERNEL	UPDATES
- Almost 100% detection	- Non-incremental updates
- Outstanding performance	- Updates can be completely automatic
- Reasonable memory requirements	- Standard updates are provided 2 times a week
- ICSA certified

USER INTERFACE	OTHER
- Intuitive Simple User Interface	- Alerts via SMTP
- Independent on installed graphic libraries	- Works on all modern distributions
- Testing of whole disks or just selected folders	- Shell scripts for common tasks
- Defining and running of antivirus tests
- Working with the scan results
- Actions with infected files
- Storing the scan results (history)
- Virus encyclopedia
- Command-line scanner with STDIN/STDOUT mode

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