Avast 5.0 is free anti virus program made by Alwil Software. Avast 5.0 is a light anti virus software.
This software does not need huge amount of RAM that slows down computer's booting time, not like another 'heavy' anti virus such as Norton or McAfee. If your computer is running on 1GB of RAM (Random Access Memory), you can use Avast 5.0 anti virus to protect your computer from harmful modern virus attacks.
Avast 5.0 has a special folder named Virus Chest, for quarantine purpose. Here, Avast locks down all kind of virus found by Avast during scanning process in the background. You dont have to do scanning process manually each time you start your computer. Avast 5.0 will do it for you silently, automatically each time this anti virus software becomes active.
Any external program such as hidden virus cannot access files stored in Avast Virus Chest. Any files stored in the virus cheast can't execute any commands, for example to change your computer registry or to renaming your document files.
Some virus or modern malware changes your favorite folder into hidden folder, replacing the hidden original folder with a folder they made.
So each time your mouse cursor click the 'duplicated' visible folder created by the virus, the virus becomes active, making your computer runs slower than usual.
The virus and malwares keep copying themselves using this way, leveraging accidental clicks done by the computer user.
If you accidentally double-clicked files stored in Avast Virus Chest, the file will not be run, it will not become active, making your computer safe from any accidental virus installation. This feature was created to make sure infected files being run accidentally, causing bad damages.
Very true good post. That is one of the best things I like about avast. It takes up very little system resources.
ReplyDeleteIt also find viruses pretty good too. Use it in sync with malwarebytes and you have a winning combination.