ALWIL Software is a computer software company that is located in the Czech Republic. The most popular software that they are known for developing is the antivirus program that is named avast!. This program is provided for free to home users and has a shareware version with several additional features. The latest version of avast! has extra additional features to help protect instant messaging and file sharing programs. It also has the ability of scanning POP3 e-mail without a special setup required in the e-mail software that is being used. Their avast! program has a better success rate with Virus Bulletin tests than many paid antivirus programs.
Although avast! is the flagship software product of ALWIL, there are also several other security software packages that are available through the developer. Avast Virus Cleaner is a free tool offered by ALWIL that can completely remove selected viruses and worms from a computer system. It will stop any viruses that are currently in the computer’s active memory, disinfect any files that have been infected by viruses, remove any virus registry and start-up itesm and even has the ability to delet the virus working files. The latest version of Avast Virus Cleaner (1.0.209) has the ability to handle the Badtrans-Beagle, Blaster, BugBear,-Ganda-Klex/Elkern, and MiMail-Mydoom virus families making the Avast Virus Cleaner tool very valuable. This is however, not an antivirus program, so do not count on it to catch everything. It is simply there to help supplement an antivirus program by scanning for viruses that antivirus programs often miss.
Another less commonly known program that is distributed by ALWIL Software is the Net.purum 2 software package. This is an application that is used for Internet content filtering and to help with the creation of a secure internet. Net.purum can block infected files, advertisements, prohibite categories of Web pages, prohibited file extensions, prohibited search terms in search engines, use of method POST, cookies, specific language and users who exceed a pre-determined monthy data transfer size limit. This package is intended for corprate security which is why it is not as well known to the average computer user. For more information on this package, you can visit the netpurum web site.
When people mention ALWIL Software, most people will have no idea what you are talking about, but will quickly light up at the mention of avast!. The software that ALWIL has provided to the public has been a huge service to the safety and security of the internet. Many people do not wish to pay for software on their computer, so companies such as ALWIL that offer cost effective solutions for home users will often do very well. Of course, they still have to make money too, which is why their comercial versions of their software will offer many additional security features to a company that purchases these packages.
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