
Avast! Premier is the kind of antivirus suites you buy when you need all at once. It protects your computer an any way possible without slowing it down.
The program has a simple easy-to-use interface similar in design to system applications in Windows. It provides access to the main features of Avast: antivirus scan and protection, firewall and online security, spam filtering, etc. The antivirus component is traditionally competent, with thorough scanning and removal of malware, rootkit and other kinds of threats. The firewall is decent, but lacks the integrity of standalone products. Privacy protection can be flexibly adjusted in order to protect all kinds of data, including traces of financial transactions. Cloud-based functionality makes avast! Premier one of the fastest and lightest security suites in the world. It can be run as a background application with no impact on the speed and stability of the system.
Secondary features include an automated software updater that finds and installs patches, fixes and updates of critical software that may endanger the system and a file shredder completely removing all traces of erased data from the system, a password analyzer and an option to set up startup scanning, router scanning and more advanced protection measures.
Avast! Premier is an updated version of the already great program. If you need good protection against the dangers of online, you can try it out.
v9.0 [Sep 4, 2013]
- DeepScreen technology allows avast! to make more intelligent decisions about new/unknown files
- Hardened mode for stricter lockdown scenarios
- Improved cloud scanning features and crowdsourced analysis of suspicious items
- Continuously streaming update (CSU) technology for up-to-minute detections
- Improved cleaning of malware
- Web browser plugins featuring comprehensive security ratings, protection against malware, phishing and typosquatting sites and Do-Not-Track (DNT) functionality for improved anonymity on the Internet
- SafeZone for more secure online shopping and banking
- Rescue disk - allow users to create a bootable CD or flash disk with Avast on it
- A streamlined user interface for simplified navigation and more user comfort
- Control and manage all protected devices directly from the Avast console (through integrated the avast! Account)
- Dramatic reduction in product size and memory footprint
- Faster scanning thanks to optimized scanning engine
- Completely rewritten setup/updater that makes the installation and upgrade process faster, easier and more reliable
- Firewall has been redesigned from scratch to allow for better compatibility with latest Windows, better performance and full support for IPv6
- Network protection component tuning & compatibility (WFP technology on Win8+)
- Various improvement in the Software Updater and Browser Cleanup tool
- Full Windows 8.1 compatibility
- Improved general AV performance and stability, including security fixes