Avast Linux Home Edition

Linux Home Edition represents an antivirus solution for the increasingly popular Linux platform. The Home Edition is offered free of charge but only for home, non-commercial use. Both of these conditions should be met.

Features

•1.        Outstanding performance

•2.        Reasonable memory requirements

•3.        ICSA certified

•4.        Intuitive Simple User Interface

•5.        Independent on installed graphic libraries

•6.        Working with the scan results

•7.        Actions with infected files

•8.        Storing the scan results (history)

•9.        Virus encyclopedia

•10.    Command-line scanner with STDIN/STDOUT mode

•11.    Non-incremental updates

•12.    Updates can be completely automatic

•13.    Alerts via SMTP

•14.    Works on all modern distributions

•15.    Shell scripts for common tasks

Function

- Command line scanner
Experienced users will appreciate the classic on-demand scanner, controlled from the command line. It enables files to be scanned in specified directories and both on local and remote volumes. Of course, the command line scanner also works on volumes mounted over a network.
The program is very flexible and has many additional arguments and switches. It is able to generate extensive report files that can be used for analysis.
The scanner is able to run in STDIN/STDOUT mode as a pipe filter. This mode is intended to be used in shell scripts.
- Virus chest
The Linux version also has a chest directory where suspicious files are stored. These files can be deleted, or it is possible to work with them later. It is also possible to submit the files to our virus lab for further analysis.

Benefits
- Updates of the virus database are another key need in virus protection. Avast! is usually updated at least 3 times a week (even more frequently during virus outbreaks), providing you with the most up-to-date definitions to efficiently protect your system against the latest threats.

- Currently, avast! for Linux is available in the following languages: English, Czech, Portuguese (Brazil), Bulgarian, Finnish, French.