With the advent of the World Wide Web, more and more users have started to use the internet for personal and professional reasons. With this move, there arises a necessity to protect the users system from malicious threats that may infiltrate through the network.
The Avira AntiVir Premium 9.0.0.420 was designed keeping this thought in mind and provides complete protection of the system from viruses, malware, adware, spyware, phishing and hackers etc. The tool is a package that comprises of the following modules that can be installed, added and uninstalled as a whole or as individual components.
AntiVir Premium: Contains all the components for the successful installation of the package.
AntiVir Guard: is used for files on the computer. The component runs in the background and monitors all the file operations being carried out by the user. A user triggered action on a file can result in the AntiVir guard scanning the respective file, monitoring it for threats and repairing the file if any threats are detected. However, rename operation is excluded from the list of file operations that automatically trigger a scan.
AntiVir MailGuard: works at the network end and sits on the interface between the system and the email program that downloads the email. The component acts as a proxy between the email program on the system and the email server. Accordingly, all emails are routed through this proxy and any suspicious emails are filtered out or processed according to user instructions.
AntiVir WebGuard: also works at the network end and sits as a proxy on the ports used for data transfer namely 80, 8080 and 3128. The component scans the transferred data for possible threats as and when they try to enter the system and either removes them or processes them according to user instructions.
Root kit Detection: works on the hidden layers of the system where normal malware detection programs cannot operate. The component checks for root kits in the areas pertaining to the kernel.
Shell Extension: This component is used to generate entry level scans for selected files and directories.

Some of the features of Avira AntiVir Premium include:

. Ability to detect viruses and malware efficiently with the use of innovative heuristic scanning methods and ability to scan multiple files simultaneously.
. Provision for an integrated scheduler for scheduling of scans and updates through Single File Update and VDF updates via a web server on the internet.
• Provision for user-friendly licensing with a License Manager.
. Provision for a control center for monitoring, controlling and administering the entire program.
. Provisions to run on access scans that are run by the service or on demand scans that are initiated by the user.
. Provision to integrate into the Windows Vista Account Control area that provides the user with administrator rights to perform certain tasks.
. At the network end, provisions for a MailGuard to scan emails and WebGuard to scan incoming traffic from the network are present.
. Provision for a Quarantine Management Facility that is able to isolate and repair suspicious files.
• Provision for a Root kit protection facility for detecting hidden malware installed in the system. (Only for 32-bit systems)

The new version provides all of the above features in addition to using a FAST Activation Tool which enables the licensing of products on line during installation.

System Requirements:

• System with Pentium or higher processor with at least 133 MHz processing speed.
• RAM: 192 MB / 512 MB RAM for Windows Vista.
• 40 MB free memory on the hard disk (more if quarantine is used).
• 100 MB temporary memory on the hard disk.
• Administrator rights are required for the installation.