avast! Professional Edition is a complete ICSA certified antivirus package for small office home office use - SOHO.

avast! obtained VB100% award in June 2002 Virus Bulletin comparative review under Windows XP Pro and in November 2002 issue under Windows 2000 Advanced Server.

Protect your system and valuable data against computer viruses with Avast! Professional Edition.

avast! Professional Edition includes the following components:

- On Demand Scanner - with two user interfaces:
- Skinnable Simple Interface - just select what do you want to scan in which way and press the Play button.
- Enhanced User Interface - Outlook like UI allows user to set any feature of avast!, prepare and run tasks, store and check task's results.
- On Access Scanner - resident scanning of all files being opened, read and written and behavior blocker monitoring dangerous actions of viruses or even users them self.
- E-mail scanner easily integrates with most mail clients and it checks both incoming and outgoing mails, it provides heuristic analysis of mail content to protect against new Worms.
- Script Blocker - checks all scripts running under Windows Scripting Host and Web browsers.
- Boot Time Scanner - scans disks in the same way and in the same time as Windows CHKDSK does (on NT/2000/XP only).
- Explorer Scanner - right click on the object allows you to scan it.
- Screen Saver scanner - integrates with your Screen Saver to scan PC during your coffee breaks.
- Virus Chest - safety isolated folder to store infected, suspicious and even some system files - to restore them.

Our true incremental updates are based on iAVS technology and they are available for virus definition file update and for program upgrade.

You can download and install updates by simple clicking on the iAVS icon, it can be checked and done automatically when you are On-line, and by our exclusive PUSH technology.

The update files of size under 100 KB are available at least twice a week and within couple of hours in the case of emergency of new virus. They are automatically downloaded and installed.

What's New in This Release:

· aswRdr.sys: fixed a race condition that could eventually lead even to a system crash
· improvements in the executable file unpackers
· enhanced tolerancy against damaged archives
· boot-time scan now supports the "Move to chest" command
· mail scanner: fixes in IMAP handling (NTLM authentication related)
· the "Date of last scan" entry is now updated by all scanners (not only Simple UI)
· added support for CAB and LHA sfx archives
· P2P Shield: added support for BitLord, uTorrent and ABC
· boot-time scan now shows textual error strings (instead of error codes)
· WebShield: fixed parsing of HTTP requests in the case where a header is larger than 64K
· WebShield: fixes in the detection of Transfer-Encoding:chunked
· WebShield: new avast4.ini options: NoDefOptinProcess, NoDefIgnoreProcess, default=0
· WebShield: miniscule fix in the GUI
· minor fixes in the email scanner (related to Lotus Notes clients)
· GUI: most lists (e.g. areas to test, exceptions etc) now support the following keyboard shortcuts: INS = Add, DEL = Delete, F2 = Edit
· Aswrdr.sys: fixed compatibility problem with Windows Vista beta versions
· fixed a problem with the boot-time scanner under Windows Vista beta
· fixed crashes of the physical memory scan under WinXP x64
· mail heuristics: added detection of multiple content-type headers
· avast now does not report the "file is corrupted" messages when trying to unpack a modified, unknown or damaged version of a Winexec packer
· sched.exe now supports all params of the boot-time scanner
· added Greek language version