{"id":644605,"date":"2013-02-28T15:47:12","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T20:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betanews.com\/?p=133433"},"modified":"2013-02-28T15:47:12","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T20:47:12","slug":"avast-8-is-available-get-it-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/644605","title":{"rendered":"avast! 8 is available — get it NOW!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"AVAST Software has announced the public availability of avast! 8, which now comes in four main flavors:\u00a0avast! Free Antivirus<\/a>,\u00a0avast! Pro Antivirus (from $39)<\/a>,\u00a0avast! Internet Security (from $49)<\/a>\u00a0andavast! Premier (from $69)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The suites all have a new touch-optimized, Windows 8-style interface. And they also include Software Updater, a tool which automatically checks for updates of the most commonly-exploited apps (Adobe Reader, Adobe AIR, Flash, Java, browsers and so on), as well as a simple Browser Cleanup app to help you review your browser add-ons, and remove or disable any you don\u2019t want.<\/p>\n

Improvements behind the scenes see avast! 8 better able to detect and block not just one the one particular sample you\u2019ve encountered, but also many similar files, and even entire malware families.<\/p>\n

AVAST\u2019s Ondrej Vlcek claims this new technology \u201chelps create much more efficient definitions, which can often protect against vast sets of malware, including unknown \u2018zero-day\u2019 malware, without the risk of generating false positives.\u201d<\/p>\n

Avast! 8 also introduces a new detection engine which monitors suspect files in an isolated environment before you\u2019re able to execute them, is better able to monitor what they\u2019re doing, and, avast! says, will \u201chelp users make more intelligent decisions, whether files running in the sandbox are malicious or not\u201d.<\/p>\n

And also new this time is the avast! Premium suite, which has all the regular avast! Internet Security features (antivirus, browsing protection, firewall, antispam) and adds additional tools of its own. So your money gets you extras like the automatic installation of any Software Updater upgrades; AccessAnywhere (remotely control your PC from across the internet); an ad blocker, and a Data Shredder to securely wipe confidential files.<\/p>\n

Will these features really be enticing enough to tempt the masses? We\u2019re not quite sure, but even if you\u2019re sticking to\u00a0avast! Free Antivirus 8<\/a>, there\u2019s plenty to explore. We like the new interface, the Software Updater is useful, Browser Cleanup is helpful for beginners, and it\u2019s still one of the best free antivirus tools around.<\/p>\n

Photo Credit:<\/strong> Andrea Danti<\/a>\/Shutterstock<\/a><\/p>\n

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AVAST Software has announced the public availability of avast! 8, which now comes in four main flavors:\u00a0avast! Free Antivirus,\u00a0avast! Pro Antivirus (from $39),\u00a0avast! Internet Security (from $49)\u00a0andavast! Premier (from $69). The suites all have a new touch-optimized, Windows 8-style interface. And they also include Software Updater, a tool which automatically checks for updates of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7429,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-644605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}