


And Do-not-track detects and blocks unwanted advertising and prevents analytics sites from secretly tracking you. You can find status of these on Avast Settings in Active Protection tab.Īvast online security plugin for browsers, currently available for Internet Explorer, Firefox and Google Chrome provides protection against phishing attacks, shows website reputation ratings, auto-redirects mistyped URLs to correct ones. File shield contains Instant messaging and p2p shield functionality whereas web shield contains Network Shield and Script Shield functionality. Shields have been redefined and they’re now reduced to three: File shield, Mail shield and web shield. Open Avast user interface>Settings>Antivirus, select “Enable Hardened mode’. Hardened mode is not enabled by default, you can, here is how. You can manage all exclusions or manually add paths or URLs for programs to be excluded from DeepScreen and Hardened mode here- Settings>Antivirus>Exclusions. ”and offers an option to add it as an exclusion (check the screenshot below). When an app has been blocked or prevented from starting by hardened mode, “ avast protected your PC” popup will be displayed from system tray with the message ” avast hardened mode prevented a program from starting on your computer. Moderate Setting doesn’t allows files with poor reputation to run and Aggressive setting lets you run only whitelisted apps. It is available in two modes: moderate and aggressive. Hardened mode is aimed at inexperienced users such as grandmas. Open Avast user interface>Settings>Antivirus, uncheck Enable DeepScreen. “DynaGen is a technology that dynamically generates signature updates based on artificial intelligence that sits inside the algorithm responsible for analyzing suspicious files.” Till now Avast AutoSandbox prevents any unknown program from running on your computer, now 2014 version has introduced DeepScreen technology and hardened mode, while former is successor to AutoSandbox, which is upgraded with technologies such as dynamic binary translation and dyna-gen. Avast 2014 to deliver 250 daily micro-updates, “arriving every 3-5 minutes, to keep you constantly protected against new threats – even ‘zero-day’ malware”.ĭeepScreen technology allows avast! to take intelligent decisions about new or unknown files. Avast has redesigned their interface to look simple, at the same time modern too and added two new technologies hardened mode and DeepScreen.Īvast says their AV is up to 10 times faster and leaner than before, you won’t even notice when it running in the background. Avast has released 2014 range: Avast Free Antivirus 2014, Avast Antivirus 2014 and Avast Internet Security 2014 and Avast Premier Antivirus 2014. Avast Free Antivirus 2014 final has been released, it is lighter, faster and meaner.
