Free avast! 6.0 official version experience

Avast! 6. The official version was released shortly after the beta version was released. Avast! It has been from the Czech Republic for 17 years and has been in the leading position in foreign markets. This small Editor brings avast! 6 free version. This version also provides website monitoring and automatic sandbox functions.

1. register and use avast! 6Free Version

Avast! 6. After the installation is complete, you will be prompted to register. Users without registration can only try for 30 days, as shown in (1:

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Avast! The free version of 6 has only anti-virus and anti-spyware functions. Compared with the PRO version, avast for surfing on the security net is missing! Sandbox, firewall and spam to prevent hacker attacks, and Fraudulent email filters.

This is a free version. You need to register a free serial number, enter simple personal information, and click Register free serial number to complete registration easily, as shown in (2:

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Ii. avast! 6Free features

Avast! 6 compared to avast! 5. The page has not changed much. In addition to summary, computer scanning, real-time protection, and maintenance, avast! 6. Only one additional protection menu is added, as shown in (3:

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1. Summary

The summary contains two items: current status and statistics. You can view Real-time protection, automatic upgrade, virus database version, program version, and service life information in the current status, the silent/game mode is also enabled and disabled. Enabling the game mode can reduce the occupation of system resources, as shown in (4:

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In the statistics, you can view protection interception information such as files, emails, and networks, as shown in (5:

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2.Computer scanning

Scan now (scan), boot-time scan (boot scan), and scan logs (scan logs). scan now supports four scanning modes: quick Scan, complete system scan, USB flash disk scan, and custom scan, as shown in (6:

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Right-click scanning is also indispensable, as shown in (7:

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In boot-time scan, you can set whether to perform a boot scan. The scan is disabled by default. You can view the scan logs in scan logs.

3.Real-time protection

Avast! The free version provides eight types of real-time protection: file system shield, mail shield, web shield, and p2p shield) im shidle (chat software), network shield (network), script shield (script), and behavior shield (behavior). Each protection can be enabled or disabled through start and stop, in addition, avast! It also provides deep options for each module. You only need to click the expert Settings button in the module. (8:

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Because the focus of each module is different, you can select the protection project required to open an account based on your needs.

4.Additional protection

Avast! 6. The additional protection content in the free version is newly added. There are three features in total: AutoSandbox,WebRep and site blocking. (9:

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AutoSandbox technology allows users to run suspicious applications in a virtual Sandbox environment, when avast! 6 when suspicious programs are detected, they are automatically put into the sandbox for operation. AutoSandbox has two modes: ASK and Auto. Click the setting option to set the area where the sandbox is not running, as shown in (10:

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You can add an exception drive letter or folder through browse. Programs in these exception files will not be automatically added to the sandbox for running. If you do not need to start AutoSandbox, simply deselect Enable AutoSandbox.

For WebRep, Avast! Official introduction: "Our technology uses the Global detector network to anonymously collect avast that provides authorization! The actual network browsing experience of the user group. This information will then be used together with the latest virus and infected website information to protect avast! User. Technically speaking, WebRep is more like a browser plug-in. It currently supports IE and FireFox and can be uninstalled, as shown in (11:

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You can view the website's reputation and vote for the website in the browser toolbar. However, after trying it out, many websites are gray and cannot vote, as shown in (12:

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Site blockingYou can shield any website, ADD the website through ADD, and delete the website, as shown in (13:

 

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Open the URL of the blocked list. avast will display a blocking prompt, as shown in (14:

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5.Maintenance

You can view avast in maintenance items! The registration information, virus database information, and avast version information of, and the avast can be upgraded through Update, as shown in (15:

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Avast! 6 In addition to the new website monitoring and automatic sandbox functions, the changes are not great. But in terms of performance, avast! 6 is better than avast! 5. Better. This will be mentioned in the following sections.

III,Avast! 6Free VersionPerformance Test

Test items:Fast Scanning, virus scanning, and resource occupation. Avast during testing! Use the default settings.

Figure (16) test machine configuration

1.Quick scan test

Select quick scan for the test, as shown in figure 17:

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The scan time is 2 minutes, the scan folder is 1567, the scan file is 8145, and the size of the scan file is 1.2 GB. It takes only two minutes to quickly scan a small series of machines. However, today's mainstream machine configurations should be faster.

2.Virus detection and removal test

Xiaobian uses the same package collected from a well-known forum in China for testing, decompress the virus package, and intercept 15, as shown in (18:

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Continue to scan the remaining samples and find that the number of viruses is 1, as shown in (19:

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29 samples, 16 in total. In order to compare the test results, Xiao Bian chose another very good free personal free version to test the same sample, as shown in (20:

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The scanning result of red umbrella is 12/29. From the test results above, avast! The results are already quite good, and they are also better than little red umbrella.

3.Resource usage

Avast! There are two processes: avastsvc.exe and avastu.