What's new in Active Virus Shield

Active Virus Shield combines traditional antivirus defense methods with the latest detection technologies to provide dependable protection against viruses and malicious programs, stopping them before they can infect your computer. It uses a heuristic analyzer that can detect various types of malicious programs. In doing so, a history is kept, thereby supporting a rollback of the system to the state prior to the malicious activity.

An advanced File Anti-Virus technology is used: now you can lower the load and increase the speed of file scans. iCheck and iSwift help achieve this, along with only scanning new or altered files. By operating in this way, the program rules out repeat scans of files that have not been changed since the last scan.

The scan process now runs in the background while you work. A scan can take up a fair amount of time and system resources, but the user can perform his work simultaneously. If any operation requires system resources, the virus scan will be paused until that operation is completed. The scan then resumes from the point where it left off.

Scanning critical areas of the computer, which could lead to serious consequences if infected, are set aside for a separate task. You can configure this task to run every time the system is started.

Protection of mail on the user's computer from malicious programs has been significantly improved. The program scans e-mail sent on these protocols for viruses:

IMAP, SMTP, POP3, regardless of which mail client you use;

NNTP, regardless of the mail client;

MAPI, HTTP (using plugins for Microsoft Office Outlook and The Bat!).

Special plug-ins are available for widely used mail clients (such as Microsoft Office Outlook, Microsoft Outlook Express, and TheBat!) that can configure mail protection directly in the mail system from viruses.

The user notification function includes events that arise during program operation. You can select the method of notification yourselves for each of these events: e-mails, sound notifications, pop-up messages.

The program has self protection technology, protection against remote administration. Password protection program settings help keep malicious programs, malefactors, or unauthorized users from disabling protection.

Active Virus Shield watches out on its own for new updates and program modules necessary for its operation. Updates are automatically downloaded as soon as they are available and the software can connect to the internet.

Only updates that you do not yet have are downloaded from the update site. This lowers the download traffic.

The most effective update location is dynamically determined, and is used as the most preferred location for future.

A user can choose not to use a proxy server, if the program updates are downloaded from a local source. This noticeably reduces the traffic passing through the proxy server.

The program has an update rollback feature that can restore the last working version of the threat signatures, if, for example, the files are damaged or there is an error in copying.