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| avast! antivirus Mac Edition |
The avast! multi-award winning technology is now available on the Mac platform to protect both your Mac and your Windows PC using friends and co-workers from the lastest malware threats. |
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 Winner of both the European AND US best anti-virus product, as well as winning the European best anti-malware category outright in last year's coveted SC Awards, avast! technologies can now be deployed to make your Mac safer against the ever-increasing malware threats being deployed against the platform, and in stopping malware threats being passed on to PC's in your office, particularly more vunerable Microsoft OS platforms.
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avast! antivirus Mac Edition has the same ICSA Certified scan engine as all avast! antivirus products, offering best-in-class protection against the latest and legacy virus, malware, trojan and spyware risks. Virus definitions and scanning capabilities are updated extremely often (sometime several times per day, depending on current threats), so you can rest assured that your Mac is protected at all times, all you need to do is install, configure once (if you want to change the default settings) and forget about malware being a problem. Install and forget: we've got it covered. |
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Some key feature of avast! antivirus Mac Edition: |
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- Full on-access scanning - which scans files as you access them, to make sure they are safe from infection
- Full on-access scanning - which scans files as you access them, to make sure they are safe from infection
- Mail protection - integrated mail protection can stop infection at one of the most vulnerable access vectors
- Virus Chest - a safe storage place for infected or suspected files, where they cannot harm your system
- Fully automatic updating - of the program and virus definitions
- Full scanner preference control - set avast! to work in the way you want
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| Under-the-hood technology features: |
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- Native execution of virus database on Intel platform Macs, with fast emulation on PowerPC of assembler-level parts
- Multi-threaded scanning daemon
- Industry leading unpacker support (for archives)
- Able to upgrade the definitions database, even while doing background scanning
- Application itself multi-threaded
- Fail-safe updating architecture (if the daemon fails to do an update, the main application will do it instead)
- Kernel extension architecture for capturing after-close events on modified files
- Optimized software architecture, including non-blocking system calls
- Entire avast! Mac Edition performance approach - the program is designed for speed and non-degraded system performance: you can run avast! and edit or work with large resource hungry applications with no or very little system performance issues
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