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About Alwil Software

Avast Anti-Virus was created by ALWIL Software.

ALWIL Software is a Czech-based company, established in April 1991.

Our products were in development and have been on the market in the former Czechoslovakia since 1988, though, during that time only available in the Czech language.

The company specializes in security software, with avast! antivirus being the flagship product line. During the lifetime of the product line, avast! products have become both award winning, and number one in a number of key markets, as well as increasing market share year-on-year since first international release.

ALWIL Software is developed entirely in-house at our offices in Prague 10 in the Czech Republic, although we also collaborate with many other people around the world who can offer us the specialist security, process and translation skills we need to meet our customer's quality expectations.

Current Version

The most current version for Avast is v4.7

Protection Page Basic

Protection Page Advanced

Features

Standard Shield — Real time file protection
IM shield — Instant Messenger protection
P2P shield — p2p protection
Internet Mail — E-mail protection
Outlook/Exchange — Microsoft Office Outlook | Microsoft Outlook/Microsoft Exchange Server | Exchange protection
Web Shield — HTTP protection (localtransparent proxy)
Script blocker — script checker
Network Shield — basic protection against well-known network worms. Acts as a lightweight Intrusion Detection System
Audible alarms — vocal warnings such as "Caution, a virus has been detected!"

Basic settings

There are a few ways to get to the settings pages.

settings

in the simple interface here is how to get the settings page.

step one

Select the eject button.

Step two

Select the settings option in the drop down menu.

How to configure Avast

Once on the settings page, you need to select the option to want to configure. Here is a basic setup of the setting screen.

Common

Appearance

Enhanced Interface

Chest

Confirmations

Language

Sounds

Logging

For logging keep the logging level set to warning, so if you get a warning it will log only up to and beyond warnings. The default level is set to Info. If you want to keep the logging to a minimal space. set it to alert and will only log major alerts such as virus', trojans and etc.

Exclusions

Update Basic

These settings are very important, try to keep the Virus Database on automatic and the Program on manual. Those settings make it easy for you to stay up to date and also keeps the anti-virus program from reseting on you. Only update the program when you get your serial number updated for the version number, the serial number is specific to the program version, to keep this updated, please contact ALWIL SOFTWARE.

Update Connections

Alerts

SMTP

Troubleshooting

Skins

Avast has many varieties of skins to choose from. Here are a few examples of cool skins. They also can be downloaded on the avast skins page

The skin below is set as the default skin.

The skin below is one of my favorite skins to use for Avast.

Virus definitions

Despite being freeware, avast! 4 Home updates its virus definitions on a regular basis and this process can be automated.

Scanning For Virus'

About 99.9% of the time Avast scans and picks up virus' and prevents them from doing damage to your computer. To do a quick scan for virus' is to do a manual scan and right click on it and click on scan [file name] and it scans the file type.

and most of the time you're fine, but some times it will pickup on virus' and/or trojans.

Virus Alerts

What do I do if Avast can't remove or delete the virus?

Reboot into safe mode and delete the file manually!

When you reboot the computer and when its about to start up the windows spash screen press F8 and it will ask you to reboot into what mode to reboot into. once you select "safe mode" not the one with networking, jsut plain old safe mode, you then need to do a search and locate the virus and delete the virus and then run a complete virus scan of the computer.

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