Avast Business Antivirus Reviews & Pricing

Key Features

• Four-Shield Protection: Delivers protection through its four-shield defense, including Behavior, Web, File and Email Shields, which work together automatically to detect and block malicious threats. Scans open or downloaded files, web URLs and certificates, incoming and outgoing emails, and detects suspicious behavior in installed programs for complete safety against malware. Its threat labs team conducts thorough analysis using threat data to strengthen the threat database. 
• Core Scanner: Offers on-demand scanning for viruses, malware, spyware and suspicious attachments or add-ons. Provides more control and management over scans through a command line scan tool that integrates with email servers. Schedule and specify types of scans, change settings and indicate inclusions using its cron utility. 
• Secure Remote Access: Offers a remote access shield feature to prevent remote desktop protocol exploits and brute-force attacks. Allows users to select who can remotely access computers and block unwanted connections. 
• Sandbox: Run applications, visit websites and download files in a virtual environment isolated from the computer using its sandbox feature. 
• Server Protection: Stops potential attacks from spreading in the network through email scanning and filtering at the Exchange Server level. Offers SharePoint server protection to prevent any data compromise by checking files uploaded onto data storage. 
• Security Browser Extension: Scans websites for authenticity and reputation, puts devices in super-safe mode and blocks malicious ads to provide additional privacy. 
• Automatic Updates: Keeps antivirus protection updated by retrieving, checking, downloading and installing the latest virus definitions. Provides extra protection for Linux systems through automatic streaming updates, which establishes a network connection to the Avast cloud to retrieve updates in real time and automate virus definition and program updates. 
• Malware and Vulnerability Scanning: Scan for malware, unsafe settings, outdated applications and suspicious add-ons using SmartScan. Offers WiFi Inspector to scan networks for vulnerabilities, check device, network and router settings and discover threats. 

Limitations

•  Complete scans can slow down system performance. 
•  Virus database is not updated constantly. 
•  Generates false alerts for legitimate files at times. 

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