Avast’s all-new antivirus lineup packs in new features, a redesigned interface - bunchhollices

If you habituate Avast's security measures software, the company has something new for you. Avast released version 8 of its antivirus software program billet on Th, which includes John Roy Major user-interface changes and new and improved features for both exempt and paid users.

Prices remain the similar for its Pro antivirus computer software ($40 per year) and Internet Certificate suite ($50 per year), and a new Premier edition sells for $70 per annum. All are single-PC licenses, only Avast does offer discounted pricing when you buy licenses for more than one PC or for longer than a year.

Avast's fresh exploiter interface is designed with touchscreens in mind, and it should allow you to perform coarse tasks more speedily. Instead of visual perception the mundane status page when opening the program, this new version greets you with a home sieve with buttons to popular tasks and components in gain to a button showing the boilers suit status.

The new Computer software Updater feature tells you if any updates are available for any normally exploited third-party software that you have installed, such as Coffee, Flash, and Adobe brick Reader. The free edition simply notifies you of come out of the closet-of-date software system, but in the Pro and Internet Security editions, you posterior click a "Fix Now" button that updates them for you. In the Premier edition, you don't equal have to bother; you give notice set it to automatically update these apps and add-ons.

Avast's Browser Cleanup instrument evaluates your browser toolbars and add-ons for those with a poor reputation—Beaver State those that use aggressive tactics to misrepresent your settings—and helps you take them. It scans toolbars and add-ons for Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Google Chrome, and shows a reputation military rank for each.

The new Data Shredder feature, free in the new Premier version only, lets you securely and permanently destroy files, drives, and partitions. That way, if your computer or hard driveway is purloined or if you resell/donate it, your files won't be recoverable like they could be when you delete the normal way of life using the Recycle Bin.

AccessAnywhere lets you bother your PCs from, well, anyplace.

Other feature alone to the Prime minister edition, the virgin AccessAnywhere tool lets you remotely get at your PC from your other computers pouring any edition of Avast 8 anywhere in the world. IT lets you come across and use the unaccessible PC (like-minded to Windows Distant Desktop) but is easier to configure and connect, and it lets you transfer files between the PCs.

In addition to the new features, Avast ready-made many improvements to existing features. The Conduct Shield has been updated to better help detect malicious activity and virus database updates are streamed to you more often. Avast also made enhancements to the scanning, firewall, antispam, and reporting functions, in addition to adding full IPv6 support.

Want to give Avast a try? You can e'er download the Free edition or evaluate its paid products with their 30-day trials offered for each. And if you're already an Avast user, you tush just upgrade from version 7: right-click the Avast icon in the system tray and select Update > Political program.