Some say that Linux is completely virus free… but actually the truth is its not. Linux is vulnerable to viruses! So, do we have to wait till a virus attack us to prove that? I don’t think so… So, its time to hire a guard to protect your system, and Avast, just might be the guard you want!

Most of the virus makers wants to infect as many victims as they can, so Most of them target windows systems because most of the world uses Windows! But, that doesn’t mean that we don’t have viruses for Linux… The number of people using Linux systems are growing day by day, so does the number of viruses. Still there are a small number of threats for Linux systems compared to Windows. But its better to protect ourselves against them before we get infected, without hitting your head on the keyboard after you lost everything!

Avast is an award winning antivirus software for Windows systems, and they have decided to build a free antivirus system for Linux! Most of the security applications we have for linux have only a command line interface, which makes it hard for normal users to handle. but Avast comes with a GTK based graphical user interface, so its really simple to manage the software. Cool isn’t it?

What are the Main Features?

ANTIVIRUS KERNEL

• Almost 100% detection
• Outstanding performance
• Reasonable memory requirements
• ICSA certified

USER INTERFACE

• Intuitive Simple User Interface
• Independent on installed graphic libraries
• Testing of whole disks or just selected folders
• Defining and running of antivirus tests
• Working with the scan results
• Actions with infected files
• Storing the scan results (history)
• Virus encyclopedia
• Command-line scanner with STDIN/STDOUT mode

UPDATES

• Non-incremental updates
• Updates can be completely automatic
• Standard updates are provided 2 times a week

OTHER

• Alerts via SMTP
• Works on all modern distributions
• Shell scripts for common tasks

How To Get This Great Tool?

You can download this free tool at : http://www.avast.com/eng/avast-for-linux-workstation.html . After you download it, you need a license key to use it. Don’t worry, you can get a free 1 year license key from : http://www.avast.com/eng/home-registration.php

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