avast! 4 PDA Edition - antivirus for WM5/WinCE/Palm

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avast! PDA Edition is designed to protect pocketdevices (PDAs) from viruses. The importance of PDAs is growing everyday and it is quite likely that these devices will soon become a targetfor new virus attacks. With such devices having better and betterconnectivity, such an attack is getting easier to realize.

avast! 4 PDA Edition currently supports the following PDA platforms:

* Palm OS
* Windows CE (incl. SmartPhone Edition)
* Windows Mobile 5 (PocketPC)

All the CPUs capable of running the given OS are supported.





Scanning kernel

We have developed a special "pocket version" of the scanning kernel, with the following features:

* Small size and memory requirements
* High speed, and so a quick response, even on slower CPUs

A typical scan of the whole pocket device (with 16-128MB of memory)only takes a few seconds, therefore it's possible to run it on aregular basis.

Specific detection capabilities: avast! PDA Edition detects onlyviruses (or any other malicious code) written for the targetenvironment (code capable of running on the given OS). This guaranteesa small size of the antivirus deployment. Even though it would bepossible to detect all known viruses, even on a PDA, this would tend tomake a large deployment footprint on a small device, when the purposeof the antivirus product is to protect the pocket device primarily; inother words, memory requirements, size and speed are more importanthere than the detection of viruses for other platforms.
Reports & logs

avast! PDA Edition can create report files with a detaileddescription of the scanning process: what was scanned, what was theresult, etc. This can be important for later reference, or just to makesure that all the requested files were scanned.

avast! PDA Edition features an integrated log viewer (note: notincluded in the SmartPhone edition, to minimize the product size).
Updates

An important part of any antivirus system is the capability toquickly react to new infections (updates of the virus database). avast!PDA Edition features a special updater able to download and install newupdates.

To download the updates, avast! PDA Edition is able to use allstandard means of data transfer for mobile devices (GPRS, for example),thus, it is fully integrated into the "pocket environment". The size oftransferred data is usually just a couple of hundreds of bytes, so the(often quite slow) communication lines are not stressed in any way.Updating via ActiveSync is also supported.
Product sizes

avast! PDA Edition is optimized for size and speed. As a result,avast! PDA Edition for Palm OS is approximately 30KB; avast! PDAEdition for Windows CE is about 200KB. The virus database currentlydoes not exceed 1kB.
Installation

Installation is performed from a PC, using standard tools for computer-PDA synchronization (ActiveSync, in most cases).



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