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Your Web browser runs in a software-emulated virtual space, completely isolated from your real PC. Two paid products offer additional functions:ДЄvast! Internet Security (US$40) adds SafeZone, a 'virtual machine' technology touted for financial transactions. The free Avast! Antivirus program contains all of the features mentioned so far. Bootable removable media enables one to start up and disinfect a computer even if malware has rendered it unbootable. Users can now create a bootable rescue disk on a CD, DVD, or USB flash drive with Avast! Antivirus installed and ready to root out malware. Potentially unwanted toolbars and plugins are identified, and can be disabled with a click. The Browser Cleanup tool does what it says.

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Might be good, though, for a PC that's used by kids (or non-techie grownups) who have a tendency to click on anything that moves. Such tightly buttoned-down security can be very inconvenient for users, but so can the life saving suit worn by a firefighter.

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Hardened Mode is a super-conservative security posture, in which only trusted software that appears on a 'whitelist' will be permitted to run.

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So-called DeepScreen Technology strips away web page code that malware developers insert in order to conceal what their malware is doing behind the scenes. In addition, the latest version pushes over 250 daily micro-updates to improve zero-day protection and detection of polymorphic threats. This advantage allows for detection of sneaky viruses and rootkits that try to load while the computer is starting up, prior to the activation of the anti-malware engine.

Here are the highlights of whatвЂ™s new:ДЄvast claims to have the the only boot-time scan in the antivirus market. It includes several new features that extend the umbrella of Avast's protection even further. On October 15, 2013, Avast! Antivirus 2014 was announced. The payoff has been overwhelming popularity, with more than a quarter of all PCs (over 200 million devices) protected by Avast! Antivirus, according to the company. What's New in Avast! 2014?ДЄVAST Software has poured 25 years of malware research into its flagship product, Avast! Antivirus. A little poking around revealed some new and interesting features in the Avast 2014 release. The friendly Avast control panel greeted me, ran an initial scan, and informed that all was well. It installed without a hitch, and didn't even require a restart. According to the latest AV-TEST reports, Avast had near-perfect malware protection scores on Windows XP, Windows 7 and Windows 8, and the highest possible marks for usability.

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I remember having the same type of trouble while trying to upgrade a year ago, so it was time for AVG to go. I did so, and was instructed by the AVG control panel to 'restart to complete the install'. I thought maybe uninstalling AVG 2013, rebooting, and installing AVG 2014 from scratch would work. (No, I wasn't running any other antivirus software.) Had to power off and restart. Huh, I'm not installing any new hardware? I hit the 'Continue Anyway' button and the AVG installer churned a few minutes then froze my computer. Next, I got 'Installing new hardware' prompts, warning me that something called 'Unknown' had not passed Windows Logo testing.

This explains why so many people complain to me every year that 'AVG is no longer free.' Selecting the free option got me past that first hurdle. After downloading and starting the update, I noted that the paid version of AVG was pre-selected for installation, even though I was using the free version. Here's the short version of the story.ДЄVG 2013 popped up a friendly reminder that it was time to upgrade to the AVG 2014 release. I had reason to do so recently, when my attempts to upgrade to AVG 2014 left me frustrated to the point of switching. It's good to change things up every once in a while. Goodbye AVG, and AVAST Antivirus 2014 Review

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