Certified, lightning-fast Antivirus for your business.
avast! Business Protection
is easy to use and provides award-winning antivirus and anti-spyware with central administration for your end points and servers.
Save time and costs with remote handling of updates, installations, auto-discovery of new/unprotected (or ‘rogue’) computers, real-time security alerts, scheduled automatic scanning, comprehensive reporting, and more.
It all adds up to major time and cost savings, letting you get back to whatever makes your business successful.
- Built for simplicity and high performance
- Certified, award-winning Antivirus & Anti-spyware engine
- Detects ‘Rogue’ computers on the company network
- Easy, Web-based central management
avast! Business Protection is built upon avast’s certified Antivirus engine and provides what you need for data loss prevention at your End Points and Servers: web-based central management/updating, remote installation, real-time security alerts, scheduled automatic scanning, and more.
We recommend this solution for less complex networks without email servers. Otherwise, please see our Business Protection Plus.
- Built for simplicity and high performance
- Certified, award-winning Antivirus & Anti-spyware engine
- Detects ‘Rogue’ computers on the company network
- Easy, Web-based central management
Key Technologies
- Don’t let new threats steal your business data
Our improved Behavior Shield stops “zero-day” threats and unknown malware, before virus definitions have been obtained. - Secure your online data exchange
avast! Web Shield checks every E-mail, Chat, Download, or Web page. Combined with our Virtualization tools (avast! SafeZone, Sandbox, and AutoSandbox), it results in the most sophisticated online protection available. - Have a bird’s eye view
Our comfortable, web-based dashboard lists all current problems and recommended solutions. - Save time and costs
Install and update remotely, to save both time and costs associated with traditional deployment at individual end points.
Core protection
- Antivirus and anti-spyware engine
- Innovative scanning engine protects against Viruses, Spyware, and other Malicious agents.
- Real-time Anti-Rootkit protection
- Prevents stealth malware (‘Rootkits’) that, when loaded by the Computer’s OS, are invisible to ordinary scanners.
- avast! Community IQ
- Provides the best, most up-to-date signature-based detection, because the global avast!user community provides samples of new viruses.
- avast! WebRep
- Provides website reliability and/or reputation ratings according to community-provided feedback.
- Behavior Shield
- Stops ‘zero-day’ threats and unknown malware before virus definitions have been obtained.
- Web Shield
- Detects streaming web content better, via high-performance tuning.
- avast! SafeZone
- Opens a new (clean) desktop so that other applications don’t see what’s happening – perfect for banking, secure ordering/shopping – and leaves no traces once it’s closed.
- AutoSandbox
- Prompts users to run suspicious applications in the virtual Sandbox environment.
- avast! Sandbox
- Provides an extra layer of security for you to run your PC and its applications in a virtual environment – where any attacks are thus targeted (instead of your real PC).
OS supported:
- Windows XP SP2+ 32-bit
- Windows Server 2003, Vista, 7 (32-bit and 64-bit) only RTM versions are supported (Windows 7 SP1 RC is currently also supported)
OS not supported:
- Windows 2000
- Windows XP 64-bit (with any SP installed)
- Windows Server 2003 64-bit
Server
- Integrated protection for both email and file servers
- Includes high-performance scanning, superior scalability, and support for clustering (even in active-active mode), and integrates perfectly with Exchange via Microsoft’s own Virus Scanning APIs.
- SharePoint Server plugin
- Tightly integrates with SharePoint 2001/2003/2007 Servers via Microsoft’s own AV interfaces.
- Low resource usage
- Stays light on system resources, to reserve server resources for your business needs.
Management console
- Web-based console
- Comfortable dashboard lists all current problems, recommended solutions, and other actions. Accessible from everywhere via web browser, so additional applications are not needed to manage your network.
- Remote installation and updates
- Saves both time and costs associated with traditional deployment at individual end points. Full network administration is unnecessary for operation.
- Auto-discovery of new/unprotected (or ‘rogue’) PCs
- Notifies you when potentially unprotected/harmful PCs connect to your company network.
- Ability to schedule/run scanning jobs
- Schedule scanning at night or on weekends (whenever PCs are not needed).
- Comprehensive reporting
- Set your own parameters for what information gets reported and how often.
- Real-time alerts
- In case of infection or other undesirable activities, the central console receives immediate real-time alerts.
Others
- 64-bit support
- Supports the 64-bit architecture platforms of Windows 7 and Windows Vista.
- Boot-time scanner
- Scans your computer for infections before the OS can start to activate any viruses beneath it (now applies also to 64-bit versions of Windows 7 and Windows Vista).
- Intelligent Scanner
- Reduces the number of required file scans up to 80% through a white list of safe applications. Files identified as safe are not rescanned unless they change.
System Requirements
To run avast! Business Protection your computer network must meet the following criteria:
End Point
Operating Systems Supported
- Windows 7
- Windows Vista (any Edition excl. Starter Edition)
- Windows XP Service Pack 2 or higher
Minimum Hardware Requirements
- Pentium 3 Processor
- 128 MB RAM
- 100 MB of free hard disk space
Server
Operating Systems Supported
- Windows 7
- Windows 2008 Server (all editions), latest SP
- Windows Vista (any Edition excl. Starter Edition), latest SP
- Windows 2003 Server (all editions), latest SP
- Windows XP Service Pack 3
Note: other 3rd party pre-requisites will be installed during the setup by the installer if they are not present. These are the Microsoft .NET Framework 4, SQL Server EE 2008R2, IIS
Minimum Hardware Requirements
- Pentium 3 Processor
- 1 GB RAM
- 500 MB of free hard disk space
Networking Requirements
- Valid SMTP server in reach of the management service
- Availability to connect to the AVAST update servers
- Windows workgroup or active directory network
Management Console
Web Browser Requirements
- Silverlight 4 enabled browser
Please also note that avast! will not run properly if you have other antivirus software on your network.
avast! Business Protection secures all important points in your network. If you need additionalend-point protection like Antispam and Firewall (important, for example, for laptops outside your network), we recommend avast! Business Protection Plus. Check the following comparison table to find out more.
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Three Nine’s provide a comprehensive range of security consultancy services to help enterprises fac the most demanding security challenges.
Irrespective of size or sector, Three Nine aim to provide an unequalled service to help our clients sleep soundly in beds, in the knowledge that the threats of spam, hacking, malicious attacks, accidental loss and data theft are reduced to the absolute minimum, if not eradicated altogether.
For more information about which services we can help you with please call 0845 689 0033 or contact us
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